I Want To Go Green

I have a lot of things I would really like to do this year to reduce our energy consumption, most of them I am not going to be able to do.  I still need to get a better car.  We are a lot closer to fixing the truck than I was and am grateful to everyone who is availing themselves of the Win Your Cruise Opportunity and other programs we have made available.  Your participation is getting us closer to getting out of the poor house and on to making ourselves greener.  Here are a list of Energy Saving products I would like to get this year that are actually doable for us. The Wonder Wash:  A small countertop sized washing machine that is hand cranked.  When I mentioned this to Katy she thought I was cracked, but when I explained what the... Read the rest of the Eco Friendly Article

On top of my regularly scheduled weekly post I have decided to start offering a mid-week article from elsewhere on the web.  As it is pouring rain outside right now I got to thinking on small scale hydro-power and happened to see this article and thought I would share it with your. Small Micro Hydro Electric Power Generator By Juandy Liem Hydro power depends on running water to turn the turbine and produce electricity. A small scale Hydro Power Generator is often called Micro Hydro Electric Generator. A Micro Hydro Plant usually produces electricity below 100kW. Recent interest in Small Scale Hydro Plants as part of movements in producing more cleaner and greener energy has attracted many researches to study and develop many improvements in... Read the rest of the Eco Friendly Article

Finished interior of a straw bale constructed home I have spent a lot of time thinking about alternative housing options once we are able to move and keep finding myself overwhelmed then coming back to I am going to have to wait and see what I can do with the property itself.  I live in South East Ohio and likely will continue to do so at the very least no more than an hour or two away in Indiana or Kentucky.  This limits some of the rather cool options I have seen.  Some of the rather cool recycled shipping container housing seems to be far less green when you consider shipping the containers this far inland.  If I could find one that was already close by, they would make good storage or a workshop though. Looking at available materials... Read the rest of the Eco Friendly Article

Hello, Green World!  I am Brad Hart, and I want to thank you for stopping by Help the Hart’s Go Green.  I am here to say I want my family to go green, but we have a lot of obstacles in our way right now.  My wife Katy is out of work, we have a five we two kids, Liam is ten and Sarah was five weeks old twenty three hours ago.  We live in a rental house without a lot of leeway for making changes physically.  Until she has a steady job this is where we have to stay.  Until we get some reliable transportation there isn’t steady work in her future. As I said I want us to go green, but the transportation issue is the first obstacle we have to over come.  I have a very environmentally unfriendly truck in need of repair.  It is... Read the rest of the Eco Friendly Article