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Cooking exhaust hoods designed for home kitchens vary widely in their ability to capture and vent away the air pollutants generated by the gas burners on cook stoves, according to a study by two Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists. Of seven representative devices they tested, the capture efficiency varied from less than 15% to more than 98%. The study, by Woody Delp and Brett Singer of Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division, ... [continue reading]
Another winner of the 2011 Weatherization Assistance Program National Recognition Award, presented at the National Weatherization Training Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, was Terry Emelander. (You can view an entire list of winners here.) [continue reading]
At the most recent National Weatherization Training Conference that took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, six people were presented with a 2011 Weatherization Assistance Program National Recognition Award. [continue reading]
If the home performance industry had an online dating profile, it would likely be looking for someone with a great network of friends that he could get to know. Home performance would also be looking for someone with a rich history (like himself), good looks that go beyond the surface, and someone who may be able to get some of his friends a job (hey, not everything in a relationship is about romance). Someone like ... [continue reading]
I’m so conflicted right now. I’m like George Clooney in the movie Up in The Air, after they tell him, midflight, that he has flown his ten millionth mile, making him part of a very, very exclusive club. [continue reading]
I wrote a blog entry a few weeks ago while attending the Energy Out West conference in Boise, Idaho. I wanted to highlight the work of the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE). I had heard a presentation by CCSE’s Jack Clark about the organization’s work in the San Diego area. Jack and his colleagues are bringing together Weatherization Assistance Program workers who were hired with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (... [continue reading]
Simply put, Gen110, a California-based energy distribution company, sells electricity. “We give people an alternative to local utilities,” says Jason Brown, CEO of Gen110 who is proud to have recently opened up a tenth Gen110 office in the Bay Area’s East Bay. [continue reading]
Thanks to Redbox for including me in a great Earth Week panel on Innovation, Entrepreneurism and Green Business. Nearly 150 employees showed up to learn about new ideas, and striking a balance between running a business and looking out for the Earth. [continue reading]
The Energy Out West conference is held every other year and began in 1996 when a group of people doing weatherization work in the Northwest thought they could help each other do it better. The current president of Energy Out West (EOW) is Mimi Burbage, who should be familiar to readers of Home Energy and anyone in weatherization. Mimi brings that independent, Alaska, straight talk style to whatever she does, from heading the Alaska Housing Finance ... [continue reading]
On March 25, 1912, GE Lighting employees gathered at Nela Park campus in Cleveland, Ohio to bury a sealed time capsule that contained GE light bulbs representing available and emerging incandescent technologies of the era. [continue reading]
