Cold Water Dishwashing? An Experiment in Green Living
When you live in an old, drafty dump of a house — like, for example, mine — you learn to innovate in order to keep your energy bills from looking like the Pentagon budget.
So last night I ran my dishwasher using only cold water. Blasphemous, I know, but Ed Hagerty (one of my readers) inspired me to try something different. Like me, Ed lives in
6 Tips For Cutting Through Greenwashing
Plenty of products are trotting out their green credentials, but how can consumers and the people who build and decorate homes for us – architects, builders and interior designers, tell what’s transparently green, or greenwashing?
Metropolis magazine recently asked designers – builders, architects and interior designers about their approaches to green spaces. Their responses highlighted some of the shortcomings of cutting through the greenwashing to find the
Nissan doubling battery capacity by 2015
Nissan has announced that Nissan and Renault electric cars will have double today’s battery capacity by 2015. That means that the range for cars like the Leaf should double by that time as well.
The big change that will bring about this leap in battery capacity is a transition to an NMC (lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide cathode) battery. The company is in the late stages of
