Entries Tagged as 'Green Building'

Power-Save Makes Renewable Energy Affordable



This is a product I’m investigating.  The Power-Save 1200 claims to save as much as 25% on your monthly electric bills.  From the vendor’s website:

The Power-Save 1200™ reduces the amount of power drawn from the utility by storing electricity otherwise lost from the motors in your home.  The unit supplies this stored electricity back to your appliances, decreasing demand from the utility.  Decreasing demand means less usage and lower electric bills.

I’ll be discussing this product in more detail and share my personal experience with it.

Power-Save 1200

Power-Save 1200

What Does Green Mean?

I was a green builder long before the term “green” meant “good.”  Back when I started building homes, green usually had a negative meaning to describe inexperience (“Keep an eye on him, he’s a green plumber”) or illness (“You’re looking green today, do you need to go home?”)

One of the clearest definitions I’ve seen for “green” is by the Skyscraper Museum:

GREEN is a term now widely used to describe buildings designed and constructed with minimal negative impact to the environment and with an emphasis on conservation of resources, energy efficiency, and healthful interior spaces.