Importance of home and content insurance

According to analysts, many home buyers usually fail to look at the importance of having a home and content insurance. Ironically, the same home owners are usually fully aware of the different unexpected calamities that might actually cost them there treasured property investments. The following are just some of the many advantages of taking this [...]

Team Bracelets for Team Grandma!

Silicone wristbands grandmother As far back as I can remember, I have always been very close with my grandmother. We are more alike than any other two people in the family and she has always been really fun to hang out with, as well as the kind of wise woman that always has the best [...]

A Funny Wristband Story

My first shopping adventure for silicone wristbands was a humerous one. I was frantically clicking from one wristband shopping site to another, my mind in a fog with all the choices available. Patience is definitely not one of my virtues, and when I’m faced with too many choices, I have the tencency to abandon ship. [...]

Wristband for My Girlfriend

It was a month after the first day I worked up the courage to ask out my girlfriend for the first time. Most people might not think that one month is much time when it comes to relationships, but I felt like I had known her forever. I wanted this anniversary to be special and [...]

Launching Your Name One Wrist At A Time – The Power of Personal Endorsement

When it comes to promoting your business, sometimes you need to think outside the box. Traditional marketing can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to create brand recognition and market mind share (when people think of you when a particular service is required). Since most businesses do not have tens and hundreds of thousands of [...]

20 Solar Apps for Your iPhone

The iPhone seems like the perfect accessory for a solar power enthusiast. Right now, you have to navigate a maze of websites such as PV Watts to calculate how much energy you can expect to produce and how many years a solar array will take to pay itself off. The iPhone could cut to the [...]

Phasebook? My(Green)Space? Can Social Networking Be Harnessed for Energy Conservation?

Google_PowerMeter

The latest to announce its demise is Google Powermeter. All the efforts to combine social networking with energy conservation seem to be pulling the plug. As I wrote back in April, Web 2.0 may be many things, but green it is not. And that’s a shame, because if our friends could “unlike” our energy habits, [...]

Is a geothermal heat pump right for you?

I’ve tried it all: caulking cracks, blowing in insulation, replacing drafty windows and–I’m especially proud of this one–installing a mail-slot cover so airtight it could be used in a space shuttle docking module . Yet my home heating bill remains an object of fear and loathing. After years of trying low-tech solutions, I’m drawn to [...]

Social networking and energy conservation: What went wrong?

It was a match made in geek heaven. Combine the hottest online activity–social networking–with the biggest environmental challenge–energy conservation–and you get something yummier than peanut butter and chocolate. It’s not just a mashup of buzzwords, either. Most of us pat ourselves on the back about our energy-saving ways. Sure, we have our vices, but doesn’t [...]

A better kind of lightbulb?

This week, the lighting start-up company vu1 is beginning to ship a new type of lightbulb that could displace compact fluorescents and LED lamps as the energy-saving bulb of choice. The technology, known as cathodoluminescence or electron-stimulated luminescence (ESL), offers similar energy savings, but provides a more natural quality of light.