Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Today's News: Every once in awhile...you've just got to do something WHACK....as in different...out of the norm....far off course. You see, if you do something whack every once in awhile, then your normal life will have a snap, crackle and pop to it...sort of like when a bulb blows out...sans the drama of broken glass. Ah, the excitement...can you feel it yet? Now here's a whack design....described as 'The Iris Flush Mount'. Although we really don't see exactly how this lamp resembles an Iris - we do feel it fits the 'out of the norm' contemporary feel for just that edge you're looking for. Retailing at $300.00, EF will let it go to your home for $180.00, with FREE shipping! ENERGY STAR QUALIFIED!
Friday, December 18, 2009
Today's News: You your guy makes alot of dough, has the best of everything and has a keen eye for modern design? Trick him out with this Triarch Lighted Pot Rack. This season, with one of these beautiful kitchen baubles, you just can't miss! Hurry!
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Today's News: The Sun craze is on and as more and more humans endeavor creatively at the craft of solar product making, they, like Sony and a few other mega companies of years past - have already begun to master the art of miniaturizing solar panels. They're called Sun Pods and they can be configured in any way imaginable. Sun Pods new
innovative transportable, self-contained, modular solar power platforms
are pre-engineered, pre-manufactured and pre-tested in a rigorous
factory setting. Turbine, water, solar...what next? No matter what way you power your home, Elite Fixtures has a matching lamp!
Friday, October 16, 2009
Today's News: Wonders never cease in the 'go-green' arena. University teams of students have built 20 solar powered houses for a U.S.
Department of Energy sponsored competition in Ca. The houses were reassembled
on the National Mall for display and judged on their use of technology, design
and other attributes. The houses are quite remarkable. The issue as to mass marketability it seems, is always GREEN
- as in money. It cost a bundle to build these babies. Mass marketing
on them may be a wash for now, but at least mass human mind is on the way to enlightenment in terms of green philosophy.
Monday, October 05, 2009
Today's News: NOW WHAT? For all that we Americans have been through, what else could the government pull in terms of energy stunts? This one seems not to be in the form of public utility issues, but certain new rules by Congress may affect how everyday people spend they personal energy in the coming days. Seems there are new crackdown laws brewing - on charities of all things. The IRS is now going to spotlight people for charitable deductions. Maybe they'll only hit the mid-rich, who tend to donate in the six figure range. But we should keep an alert eye out. Soon enough all those neighborhood abandoned puppies and kitties may have no funding and all charities will be left groping for funds in the dark.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Today's News: Next week one of the premier Eco-change events in the world of green building, water, energy, clean tech, social innovation and the “new economy” will blast off in San Francisco at the Fort Mason Center.Billed as the “world’s largest conference on green innovation”
for buildings, West Coast Green runs from Oct 1-3. The conference may
draw over 14,000 attendees and a veritable who’s who in the world of
green and clean technologies is assigned attendance. Authors, CEOs,
government reps, entrepreneurs and inventors will show off and discuss
innovative new products that can help us create a more sustainable
world.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Today's News: Today it seems that the race to a cleaner environment is not just a race to stop climate change but a race to stop the gov from squeezing us out of every penny we attempt to earn - just to be able to 'live on planet Earth'. Does anyone know how entrained we are to government and big industry? If not, take a look at your gas or phone bill. Not one bill you pay it seems is devoid of a governmental link. How then do working class people with families make it in today's economy? Many are becoming DYI'ers and are figuring out creative ways to power their homes freely. Now for half a grand one can begin to make changes that may indeed make a significant change in what green stays in your pocket!
Monday, September 28, 2009
Today's News: Anna Dyson, a scientist from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in Troy, New York, is leading the way to make solar energy a
real alternative to pollution-emitting fossil fuels. These new solar panels actually track the sun's movement and sun power is then converted through a small lens to a high tech solar cell. This tracking ability enables the panels to capture 80% of the sun's power, whereas current solar systems are about 14% effective. With so much free power flooding into our homes in the near future, now all one needs is a few radiant light fixtures to brighten our environment!
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Today's News: Prez Obama had a pretty hard time getting through to the public with his health care plan. Next on the agenda it seems are the Climate change issues. Here, in fact, he may end up receiving much needed support. Reports are streaming in
from around the world as the more than 2,400 Global Wake Up Call events are taking place in more than one hundred and twenty countries - surrounding Obama's speeches at the G-20 conference in pittsburg later this week. The diversity of the participants and the response
they are getting from their calls is awe inspiring. If we all die of cancer and diseases due to a poor healthcare system, at least Mother Earth will have a bright future after all.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Today's News: Good ol' Nicky Tesla had a wise old idea - to create free energy for all. But he spent his last years feeding pigeons outside
New York's Public Library, and died nearly penniless. A brilliant soul in such dark times. With more than
700 patents to his name, Tesla invented radio, the coil transformer,
wireless communication, fluorescent lights and the alternating-current
motor, which allowed electricity to flow over long distances. How is it that inventive genius's come to bad ends when imitators amass fortunes?
There's power on this planet - enough for all. With more and more ordinary citizens getting in on the action - the seeming environmental crisis is making millionaires out of a whole new crop of imitators. After all, solar power, wind, water and Earth power has been right under our noses for centuries now. These days - it doesn't matter where one is located in the world. All one needs to do is tap into it.