Green Cities

Does Your City Have Green Roofs?

Apr 30th, 2008 | By Kelly Mead | Category: Designing Healthy, Green Cities, Helathy (green) Ideas, In The News, green building, green landscaping

Having a green roof is becoming the thing to do in urban environments and Green Roofs for Healthy CIties is an organization all about that.  They have also a list of top ten cities with green roofs in North America.  They are:



The Pink City - Make It Right 9

Dec 19th, 2007 | By Kelly Mead | Category: Community Issues, Designing Healthy, Getting Healthy, Green Cities, Helathy (green) Ideas, Hollywood, Make It Right 9, green building, solar panels

Keeping in the theme of kindness during this holiday season we wanted to highlight the Make it Right 9 organization that is dedicated to building 150 new energy and earth responsible houses for the Lower 9th Ward residents of New Orleans.
The effort for fundraising to make this dream a reality started on December 3, 2007 and already [...]



Cashing in on the Sun in San Francisco

Dec 12th, 2007 | By Kelly Mead | Category: Community Issues, Green Cities, State Incentives, solar cost, solar panels

According to CNN.com San Francisco may become the most affordable place to go solar in the US. San Francisco has developed an enterprising plan to help it’s residents and businesses use the sun’s limitless power to supply their energy needs.



$1 per watt of Solar Energy

Nov 20th, 2007 | By Kelly Mead | Category: Community Issues, Energy Efficiency, Green Cities, solar cost, solar panels

In September the University of Colorado announced that the manufacturing of low-cost, high efficiency solar panels is nearing mass production. The technology is patented by Professor W.S. Sampath, a mechanical engineering professor at Colorado State.
The process should make the total cost to consumers as low at $2 per watt,including instillation cost, which is half of [...]