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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Great technologies that we used to build our energy efficiency app, Stopwattch After a great development project for our new Energy Meter App, we thought it would be important to mention the great technologies that our app is built on. Our energy meter app is a great django piston example. Like anything today, [...]
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Stopwattch, the personal energy use calculator app by Verde Verde Sustainable Solutions, is close to being released. Check out the stopwattch app icon, which will be in both the Apple and Google app stores. We put way too much thought into the name, but ultimately the way it laid out in the design [...]
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Why we picked these energy drawing products for our Stopwattch list A quick view and explanation behind the products that we picked for the next green iPhone and iPad app, along with a last minute change in what might be an important product. Verde Sustainability Solutions, a Chicago tech startup is sticking [...]
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Developing an app in 48 hours or less Getting closer – we are excited to show you an image of the stopwatch page for the app Verde is building, which is the real meat and potatoes behind everything. The wheel on the left is spinning the app Verde is creating (still no [...]
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Beginning app development on our new iOS app So, we are beginning app development on Stopwattch and built the back end of the energy stopwatch app and it seems to be functioning rather well. The front end of the app is getting tweaked, but here is a screen shot to wet your whistle. [...]
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Cross platform app development using Angular.js We are into our 25th hour of the hackathon, and we thought we would provide some insight to the development design of our mobile app, which is Angular JS. Angular JS is an open source framework for Javascript, which is an old school language common in web development [...]
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Recipe for Gumbo New Orleans Style Ironically, more people asked for details about our Cajun Gumbo recipe with okra than the actual mobile app development project. Well, you asked for it, so here is the famous firefighter Gumbo Recipe, as inspired by my time as a Wilmette Firefighter. Serve over rice and [...]
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What does a carbon footprint measure and how it relates to our latest green app It is just past 8:30pm on Saturday, which puts us 25% through our time to build the new energy meter app by Verde. Some interesting notes that we want to mention so far: 1. We had to [...]
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Energy efficiency graphics in an energy consumption dashboard Plugging along just fine here at Verde on our build of our Energy Consumption Dashboard App (name not yet finalized, chime in here). Here is a teaser of what the energy app will look like, on the functional screen. Carbon sequestration trees in our [...]
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Building one of the best free apps for iPads ain’t easy We are underway creating a new mobile app, which will be an energy app stopwatch. We are pretty excited about it, started around 8:30am in an apartment in Chicago and to be complete within 48 hours. We hope that it will be [...]
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How we build our appliance energy calculator over one weekend Verde is excited about our upcoming appliance energy calculator hackathon, October 20 & 21st. While we will be spending just 48 hours to develop a new and exciting app, the truth is that we have been cheating with lots of prep work. this [...]
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Rising Electricity Costs Verde often gets asked, “Why is my energy bill so high?” Lowering your energy bill is important for your bottom line in a time of rising electricity costs, and is incredibly important for sustainability. You can put a solar panel on your home, but you missed the point if you did [...]
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Are we smart grid ready and what is real-time pricing? Real-Time Pricing is something new offered by your local electricity provider, that allows your smart meter to talk directly with the grid and reflect current electricity prices. In the past, we have all paid for electricity in our homes based on a flat rate. Currently, [...]
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LED efficiency comparison tool for websites I recently read an article in the Chicago Tribune that predicts that electricity rates will likely be higher in Illinois in 2013, 2014, and 2015. It explains how the closing of coal power plants in the city of Chicago, which is terrific for the health of city residents, will [...]
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