Before we turn our attention to supplying the energy needed to heat our home and hot water, let’s recap and update an earlier blog Sustainable Energy: Phase I. where we outline our personal sustainability plan. There we described a newly installed roof-mounted photovoltaic solar system that allows us to harvest some of the Sunlight illuminating […]
“And we have power!” Harvesting current sunlight is a hoot. Well folks, on June 14, 2011, another small portion of Earth’s surface (386 sq ft of roof area on our home in Colorado) began harvesting current sunlight as Gail and I continue on our path seeking a more sustainable life style. The new solar photovoltaic […]
Rebel with a Cause: Bill McKibben was the theme of last night’s Colorado Environmental Coalition (CEC) fund raising event held in the Seawell Ballroom at the Denver Center for Performing Arts. The nearly 500 people attending this annual event endured the initial silent and live auctions to hear the noted author, environmentalist and climate change […]
Anyone confused or skeptical about “Climate Change”? Is weather different from climate? “Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.” …. Robert Heinlein, American science fiction author “Climate lasts all the time, and weather only a few days.” ….. Mark Twain, Both of these often repeated quotations indicate there is a difference between […]
Applause erupted from the filled Boettcher Concert Hall as Jennifer Koh walked onto the stage, carefully clutching her 1727 Stradivarius violin for a program of Baroque music composed by two contemporaries Bach and Vivaldi. Guest artist Koh soon had the audience mesmerized with her ability to lift the notes from the paper, deftly translate these […]
As we entered the stockyard arena, the unmistakable fragrance of livestock sent me tumbling back into a past life. It was a horrific sight for a 9 year-old farm boy to see on a northern Ohio late summer afternoon. There was Pal, my hoped-to-be prize winning sheep dangling from the wire fence, its right front […]
First the sound, then the sight of a sea of people appeared over the crest of the hill on East Colfax Ave. The surreal sight of an empty artery through the city was suddenly replaced by tens of thousands of like-intended people marading[ 1 ] past the gold leaf doom of the State Capitol to […]
Four…. Three….. Two….. One…. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Right on cue, the tops of the buildings on The Strip of this City of Lights erupted into flares of red, green, yellow, and blue fire in celebration of the upcoming Gregorian Year 2011. Gail and I learned from the Universe Story that the upcoming year is more […]
In Part #1 of this post, we discussed our purchase of solar powered LED colored lights. We included a brief description of how this human creation harvests current sunlight during the day, converts this light energy into electrical then chemical energy stored within a battery so it can be released after nightfall to create colored […]
Thanks to our adult children who are advocates of Permaculture and all things sustainable, we became aware of solar powered lights this year. Yes, these lights are on sale at retail stores such as Target, where they are marketed by Seasonal Specialties L.L.C.; produced under the Philips brand name; and manufactured in China from Earth’s […]