Pay-As-You-Go Solar Sheds New Light
Eight19, a company specializing in solar electricity for off-grid use, is coming out with a personal, pay-as-you-go solar electricity system designed for developing areas of the world. Called IndiGo,...
View ArticleSolar Generator Review: Start Going Off the Grid and Be Better Prepared for...
You may not know this, but going off the grid is actually much easier than you’d expect. Forget about hippies living inside huts in dense forests or other similar cliques. Curbing your home’s...
View ArticleSolar In A Box Powers Off-Grid Communities
Imagine if every day when you arrived at work, you might or might not have electricity to power your laptop, which is at 33 percent battery charge. Definitely throws a wrench into your agenda. While...
View ArticleCan Off-Grid Telecom Towers Ditch The Diesel?
Off-grid telecom stations help to ensure the reliability of mobile phone and Internet services worldwide. Unfortunately, they’re also typically powered by diesel generators, which contribute...
View Article5 Tiny Houses With Big Green Ideas
It used to be that the sign of living well was a big house, one with lots of rooms, maybe a pool—the kind of house you might envy when you catch a glimpse of it on TV or in a magazine. But that’s...
View Article5 GreenTech Stories You Should Be Reading: April 17, 2012
Cell phone-based solar energy, political and legal contests for smart and renewable technology and … sustainability as a step toward exploring the cosmos? No, really. image via Brian Snelson 1. “US...
View ArticleHistoric Pigeon Key Goes Solar, Trims Diesel
Pigeon Key is just a speck in the long arc of the Florida Keys. It’s off the grid. The Overseas Highway goes around it. You have to take a ferry from Marathon or walk or bike the two-plus miles on an...
View ArticleSelf-Sufficient House Fits Sculpted Dutch Landscape
The goal of many green designs for houses is to make them appear part of the landscape. In the Netherlands, the firm 123DV has created a home that is far too linear to be called organic, but still...
View ArticleSelf-Sufficient Isolée House Design Treads Lightly
While many green homes try to blend in seamlessly with the environment, a new type of structure being favored in some eco-tourism sectors is to do just the opposite. Some designers are creating sturdy,...
View ArticleOff Grid Spanish Home A Timeless Design
I’ve read stories recently about some off-grid luxury homes in the U.S. They’re all about amazing hardware and software for making sure that your vast solar array is keeping your vast battery pack...
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