Archive for the ‘Going Green’ Category

Going green isn’t just the fashionable catch phrase of the early 21st Century, conservation is an essential component of our long term sustainability. Heating and cooling a home today is expensive and has far-reaching environmental consequences. “Energy efficiency is not on the wish list for home buyers in 2011 – it’s on the ‘must’ list,” [...]

Seattle City Council has been considering adding another step to the home selling process for the past couple years. Such a measure would require home sellers to pass an energy audit. If the home doesn’t pass, the necessary corrections would need to be made prior to closing such that the home meets a certain level [...]

An innovative sustainable energy project is taking shape between Seattle’s City Light, Parks Deptartment and Seattleites. Community Solar intends to green up the Emerald City and begin taking energy production off the grid. The first of such projects is slated for Beacon Hill’s Jefferson Park. There picnic shelters will be covered with solar panels, generating [...]