Category Archives: Renewables and Energy

How Green Is Your State???

Wondering how your state is doing compared to other states in the race to be the greenest?  Clean Edge has come out with their leadership index for 2011 and congratulations California you are in the lead.

See where your state stacks up: http://www.cleanedge.com/leadership/

The report also states that employment in the green sector was larger than the fossil fuel or biosciences industries nationally, but smaller than information technology.

Read more: http://www.cleanedge.com/reports/reports-jobtrends2010.php

Add a guest house in no-time

Unique, affordable, environmentally friendly and easy to set up, a Pacific Yurt is an outstanding choice for a vast range of personal uses, including: Vacation Home or Cabin, Temporary Housing, Guest Lodging, Studio / Office, Spa Enclosure, and Meditation/Fitness Room

What is a Yurts?

The Pacific Yurt is a modern adaptation of the ancient shelter used by Central Asian nomads for centuries. The compact shape of the yurt and combination of lightweight members in tension and compression mean that the structure is highly efficient in maximizing strength while minimizing the use of materials.

The Pacific Yurt is a lightweight, low-cost, state-of-the-art version that retains the sense of wholeness of the ancient form while delivering the structural integrity, longevity and low maintenance demanded by modern users.

Though generally classified as a tent, the yurt is much stronger and weathertight. The Pacific Yurt is a circular structure that consists of a durable fabric cover, tension band and a wood frame that includes a lattice wall, radial rafters, central compression ring and a framed door.

For more information go to: http://www.yurts.com/

Lighting Terminolgy

Watt: The power needed for an application.  Example: you need 100 watts to run a 100-watt light bulb. 

Lumens: The units used to measure the power of light.  Goal – achieve more lumens using fewer watts.

Kelvin: Unit that indicates the color of light, and it’s somewhat counterintuitive:  The lower the Kelvin temperature the warmer the light color; the higher the temperature the cooler the light.