Category: Energy Conservation

Apartment dwellers often assume their winter heating costs are dictated by their building's central boiler or individual electric meters—but that’s not entirely the case. While condo and co-op residents can’t just replace their windows or u…

The Windy City has hundreds of green roofs covering millions of square feet. While Chicago doesn’t have a law mandating green roof conversions by a specific deadline, it does have policies encouraging both existing and new construction to i…

Windows give us the ability to enjoy pleasant views, provide natural light, insulation, and ventilation, and add to a building’s overall aesthetic. When regularly cleaned and properly maintained, they improve energy efficiency, easing the b…

Cleaning products are designed with a straightforward goal: to reduce dirt and grime. But once you delve deeper into their overall purpose, things become more complex. What makes something really clean? Does it just look shinier? Smell bett…

The impacts of climate change are vast and interrelated. While natural factors like solar variations, the planet’s orbital shifts, and volcanic eruptions occur cyclically and have nothing to do with people, human activity adds significantly…

As the solar industry continues to expand, it is crucial to understand that the successful implementation of photovoltaic (PV) systems, commonly called solar energy systems, goes beyond simply purchasing solar panels. At the start of a pro…

Nobel Prize–eschewing poet and folk-rock music legend Bob Dylan might have been the first person to be known as “going electric” (at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965), but as with much of his oeuvre, the world is now following in his foots…

With the focus on climate change and how to fight it constantly sharpening, residential communities are seeking ways to reduce their contribution to the problem, commonly known as their carbon footprint. Carbon reduction is necessary both t…

The reality of climate change is upon us. Weather patterns have changed, and seasons have been altered. We experience more intense heat, more frequent, destructive storms, wide-ranging wildfires, and more destructive cold. Tornadoes—the spa…

There is no overstating the dire situation that the planet finds itself in after two centuries of industrialization and the broad unwillingness of its biggest perpetrators to mitigate its devastating effects on climate, not to mention on hu…