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Verde is excited to help Run Energy Streamline their Carbon Farming Reporting in Australia Verde Sustainable Solutions will be building out a platform for Run Energy to automate their carbon farming accounting, an important operational aspect of their business in Australia. Based on Verde’s experience in developing our energy savings API, as well as two [...]
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Cleanweb will lead the future through energy efficiency, until technology catches up There is a ton of great things going on in the energy sector, with improved solar efficiency, greater wind market penetration and transmission, as well as hundreds of new potential sources of green energy sources. However, until these technologies can compete with traditional [...]
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After interviewing 50 small businesses in Chicago, including many restaurants and cafe’s, I was quite surprised to find that few had upgraded their lighting to energy efficient and new LED products. Considering that restaurants use 5-7 times the amount of energy as other retail spaces, it would seem that they have a larger incentive [...]
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What is the greenest and most eco energy available on the electricity marketplace in 2013? The greatest current form of green and eco energy is energy efficiency, as the adage is still true that the greenest form of energy is the kWh not used. While wind and solar PV technologies are rapidly increasing in [...]
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To properly look at an LED efficiency comparison to CFLs, LEDs and other energy efficient lighting, you first need to know the energy rate in your location. Verde can find your rate in our database through our energy rate finder for the US/UK in our energy efficient iPad app, or on our Research and Development [...]
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Free Energy Efficiency Apps? Yes, Please! Verde Sustainable Solutions is proud to announce that our energy efficiency apps are free for the entire week of Earthday 2013, which starts on Monday, April 22 this year. We ran a similar energy efficiency promotion in 2012, which led to over 20,000 downloads in 2012 for our [...]
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Some of the greatest energy efficiency and sustainable solutions happening today are taking place on their own, and may not be obvious to the average person. What is exciting is that these amazing technologies are often dramatically more efficient than older products, and ways that we use household products changes and evolves. Below are [...]
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A quick visual demonstration of our Sustainability app – the iPad Verde app Below is a quick visual look at the iPad Verde app, a sustainability app that can help a user reduce the energy usage in their home. Before you download this sustainability app, check out the visuals so you have an idea [...]
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Building Web Applications using Angularjs In November, our energy efficiency startup hosted a hackathon with our developers and team to pull from various parts of our API. We were extremely happy with the choice to use angularjs, the resources available and the way the app turned out. What was created was stopwattch, an [...]
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LED efficiency has far reaching implications in energy efficiency in our homes and transportation LED efficiency and technology has finally arrived in a sustainable fashion. Of course, sustainable can be used in various forms with LED lighting, but what I imply is that the quality has finally reached a level that can be sustained for [...]
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The Electricity Infrastructure in Chicago is based on Coal Power Plants. In today’s world, we depend on electricity every day- to light our rooms, to charge our appliances, to prepare our food, and so much more. As technological advancements continue to evolve, it seems as though we, as a civilization may have passed the [...]
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What Problems Has Your Small Business Experienced in Energy Efficiency Efforts? Verde has gone back to some more R&D (not to be confused with our energy savings API, Verde R&D!) We need your help in exploring energy efficiency solutions, and would love responses from any small or medium businesses that would like to be [...]
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Green Restaurant Certifications and Restaurant Energy Efficiency Restaurants typically use five times the energy as a typical retail space, making them a great target for sustainability measures. In fact, the typical deep fryer annually uses almost twice the amount of energy as an average American home. While there are many ways that restaurants [...]
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Better Understand Energy Costs The new app, Stopwatch, which just was updated by the iOS store, helps you to measure the cost of energy for a variety of product. After you “get started”, you can use this energy meter Stopwattch app to better understand energy costs of the products in your home. We recently [...]
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How Markting Energy Efficiency in Products Improves Sales Compelling evidence shows that people care about how energy efficient a product is, as well as how sustainably it was sourced and produced. In further compelling evidence, Nielsen recently showed that 66% of consumers want to purchase from a company that supports sustainability, and 46% are [...]
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LED Lighting Efficiency Comparison Tool It is important to evaluate cost savings with lighting upgrades, because often new expensive LED lighting will actually pay for themselves within a year. For the sake of this article about LED lighting efficiency comparisons, we will ignore the cost to change a lightbulb and focus directly on [...]
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Why buy a hybrid car today? Environmentalism, saving money, car pollution facts, and image with your peers are just a few reasons to do so. How about safety? Is a SUV safer than a car – and is it safer than a hybrid? While counterintuitive, it does not appear that SUVs are saferthan traditional [...]
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Using tablets and apps to see how much energy you use in a home or business It is easy to calculate how much electricity you use with green apps and eco apps, available on tablets. The best apps are available on iPad, but look for other platforms from Android, Microsoft, and Blackberry to [...]
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Environmental Education and Awareness for School Kids I had the recent opportunity to present an environmental education for kids series in a 3rd and 4th grade classroom called “The Breathing Earth”. The presentation talks about the science behind global warming, along with possible solutions for the future. I had several expectations for this presentation, [...]
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Carbon footprints, Global Warming Awareness, and sustainable solutions Carbon footprints and global warming awareness are often talked about often in media today, yet I think many people are afraid to ask basic question, “Where do Carbon Emissions Come From?” As environmental education is key to moving forward with sustainable initiatives, I think [...]
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Untimely death of a solution to rising levels of carbon dioxide Cap and Trade approach to a carbon reduction commitment had an untimely death in United States politics, and part of me is glad. I am hopeful that carbon regulation will return to this country when we are stronger economically, and I hope [...]
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China as the greatest emitter of carbon emissions in the world Recently, China surpassed the United States as the number one emitter of carbon dioxide and global warming gases. China also recently surpassed Japan as the second largest economy. What’s more, everyone feels that in the next 20 years, China will likely surpass the [...]
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Keeping your home, or parts of your home, warm with space heaters Heating your home in the winter can be expensive, and have quite an environmental impact. Most homes are heated with natural gas in the United States, through a forced air furnace or a boiler. While natural gas releases half the carbon dioxide [...]
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The power consumption formula for an appliance energy use calculator We are in the process of updating the product list from our popular Stopwattch app, which is an appliance energy calculator in the iTunes app store. We initially had a small list of ten products, and we explain the process in picking these products [...]
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Increasing energy efficiency in your home People often ask me where they can get the most bang for their buck in increasing their home’s energy efficiency. I always tell them to start in the kitchen. Energy efficient kitchens are a great way to freshen up an important part of your home, and we [...]
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