While camping over Memorial Day this year, I witnessed several people complaining about their SmartPhones (iPhones, etc.) and having to sit around the bathroom trying to get even to 20% charge. Last year Alicia and I had to coordinate who had the chargers and cables to plug in our iPhones so that we could keep […]
Camping with Thermo-electric Generation (Powered SmartPhones)
Posted on July 29, 2015 Written by Leave a Comment
What’s the Hottest New iPhone Tech – FLIR ONE Review
Posted on September 13, 2014 Written by 3 Comments
Over the weekend I got to play with one of the coolest new tools for an energy geek – a FLIR ONE Thermal Imaging Camera add-on for the iPhone 5/5S. You can literally measure and see how cool or hot you or anything around you is. A friend at church just got one and she knew […]
Addicted to Electricity
Posted on June 24, 2014 Written by Leave a Comment
“My life would be miserable and I wouldn’t ever be happy, unless I had a shelf full of boardgames in my room [if I didn’t have electricity].” “If you’re not charging your iPod, could you plug in my iPhone?” “I have another cable, I can plug them both in.” Our family is driving down the […]
Lusting For The Nest
Posted on July 19, 2013 Written by 5 Comments
What can I say, we love Programmable Thermostats! They are one of the easiest and most effective ways to save energy in your home. When people ask us, “What is the one thing I should do to save energy?” we tell them to install and program a programmable thermostat. Some thermostats even program themselves like the Nest […]
ISO to Go – Our New Favorite App
Posted on October 20, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
Alicia just showed me my new favorite app for iPhones and Androids: ISO to Go from ISO New England. ISO to Go, which is also available for free, provides easy access to real-time electricity data for the New England grid including: Overview of the power grid and electricity markets Real-time consumer demand Charts showing the […]
App Review: Greening Your Family
Posted on May 10, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
Greening Your Family Home Screen Do you find that when you go to the grocery store you can’t remember which fruits and veggies are on the Dirty Dozen or the Clean Fifteen? Do you look at the sunscreen shelves and try it remember if it was oxybenzone or avobenzone that is bad for you and […]
Living Healthier Through Sunscreen
Posted on August 19, 2010 Written by 3 Comments
We have been working recently on being more careful about what we put ON our bodies, as well as what we put IN our bodies. This summer we are being a lot more careful about putting on sunscreen, both on ourselves and the children. Jon and our older son have always had sensitive skin that […]
Reflections on Earth Hour
Posted on March 29, 2010 Written by Leave a Comment
On Saturday we joined the world for Earth Hour by turning off all the lights in our house as well as most other things too. Well almost all the lights, we left the LED night light on in the kids’ room for them. We also kept the home network on so that our TED5000 home […]
My Favorite "Green" iPhone App: TreeHugger
Posted on March 3, 2010 Written by 3 Comments
A few days ago TreeHugger released their new iPhone App with the same name. I have been using the mobile TreeHugger site for months on my iPhone with reasonable success, but the iPhone app is so much better. The TreeHugger app provides a very straightforward, clean access to the wonderful content at TreeHugger.com. I’ve tried […]
First Days with our TED-5000 Home Energy Monitor
Posted on February 21, 2010 Written by 5 Comments
Understanding your home energy usage is an important step to to reducing it. You can get a good first start by just looking at your energy bills and thinking about why there are peaks and valleys and how this year compares to last. To go beyond looking at your bills and save even more, you need […]
