Chevy Volt – The Ideal Green Car

January 21, 2017 by /

Goal: To further reduce our household CO2 emissions and live lighter on the planet. Solution: a Chevy Volt - the ideal green car! After ten years of driving a fuel efficient Toyota Prius and nearly five years driving a Nissan Leaf full electric vehicle (EV), I finally found a vehicle that combines the best of both. Here is why I call the Chevy Volt the ideal green car. The Conundrum The Prius had great mileage, but it still used gas. The Leaf could not burn gas if it wanted to, but the range was far less than the 100 miles per charge that Nissan originally claimed.But it got worse. Over time, the battery capacity diminished, significantly reducing range. There were plenty of times I wanted to travel farther than the Leaf’s battery would allow. The only options were to make a ... Read More

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Green Living – Signing Off (from the RJ)

January 24, 2015 by /
Green Living - Signing Off

As George Harrison sang in 1970, “All things must pass…” and so it is with my involvement as the originator and author of the Green Living column in the Las Vegas Review Journal (though this site will remain active). After nine years and 234 consecutively-published RJ columns I am hanging up my Green Living keyboard (for the newspaper anyway). The reason? I wore the letters off the keys and can’t type on them anymore!http://youtu.be/ebtC3ORg9fU GreenDreamWeb is a Priority Actually, it’s really about priorities. Change is the one thing that’s guaranteed in life and this one feels right. In my other, non-writer life, I have a small business that is also green. In fact, it is called GreenDreamWeb. It makes a difference in its own way and right now things are going well. I want to focus ... Read More

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Energy Slaves of Modern Culture

January 11, 2015 by /
Energy Slaves of Modern Culture

When I explain to people that I have not purchased electricity for ten years, they are envious. When I tell them I have not bought gasoline or oil or a smog check for four years, they are amazed. When I tell them they can do the same thing simply by ... Read More

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Climbing the Ladder of Awareness

December 27, 2014 by /
Climbing the Ladder of Awareness, time for alarm

Reflection is common at the end of the year. Reviewing the Green Living columns for 2014 led me to take stock of almost nine years of consecutive biweekly publication. This is column number 232. Their purpose is to plant seeds of awareness that will ... Read More

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Important Home Maintenance

December 13, 2014 by /
Important Home Maintenance - don't ignore it!

What happens to a home when it is not properly maintained? After a while, things tend to start falling apart, don’t they? Most of us take care of our homes. We take pride in them and want them to last. We care about how they look. And we certainly ... Read More

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Top 5 Things To Do

November 30, 2014 by /
Top 5 Things To Do - Cut the carbon.

Living More Responsibly From my perspective, there is quite a gap between what is occurring in the world and the actions, or lack thereof, of the general public in the United States. Even those who understand the severity and potential harm of ... Read More

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Local Food Movement Growing

November 15, 2014 by /
Local food in the form of a Mesquite pancake breakfast by Great Basin Permaculture

Local food production is one of the most important elements of a sustainable community. Since we are situated in the Mojave Desert, most of our food is grown elsewhere and that needs to change. Fortunately, the local food movement is well underway ... Read More

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More Humans, Less of Everything Else

November 1, 2014 by /
What rape looks like. Halliburton fracks the Earth.

The extraction of “unconventional” fossil fuels, whether through fracking, deep-water drilling or the unimaginable waste of Canadian tar sands, has provided much of the motivation in my personal life to methodically reduce our family's CO2 footprint. ... Read More

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The Real Value of a Solar Home

October 18, 2014 by /
Real Value of a Solar Home

Solar energy systems are becoming increasingly popular. Many factors are driving the trend: lower system costs, improved performance, environmental awareness and new options for system acquisition. I’ve received a ton of calls and emails about the ... Read More

Filed Under: Clean Energy, Green Living Columns

Southern Nevada Solar Home Tour – 2014

October 4, 2014 by /
Southern Nevada Solar Home Tour

The largest climate change march in history recently took place in New York City. Over 400,000 people joined together to demand genuine action on the issue. Hundreds of thousands more participated in coordinated events around the globe. This is no ... Read More

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