Category — Green

LEADERSHIP in Energy & Environmental Design is a certification green buildings can obtain.  LEEDs sets standards for both design and energy efficiency in building construction.  As time goes on, expect to hear more about LEEDs.  I would like to hear more about cost effective building materials in this area, as well as recycled wood.

UNSEASONABLY LOW TEMPERATURES worldwide this winter are do to the Sun’s low magnetic field.

The technical information on the Sun’s low magnetic field over the last few years portends a mini ice age despite higher greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

I just wanted you to know why it has been cold, rainy, snowing, and your heating bill may have gone up.

SANTA CLARA COUNTY District Attorneys office has brought criminal charges against the Bissett family in Santa Clara for failing to cut down Redwood trees in their back yard that cast a shadow over their neighbor’s solar panels. Via Instapundit link to Environmental Republican.

Criminal charges? For not cutting down Redwood tress? Should anyone forget, the Nanny State has criminalized homeowners for the simplest civil conflicts rather than just imposing civil fines, or even using common sense. Cutting down a tree in your front yard in San Jose can land you in jail. It is the law. Failing to cut down a tree because of shade, at your own expense, can land a homeowner in jail.

Realtors Blog Storming the Santa Clara County Supervisors, and supporting the Bissett’s is a good idea. Realestateblocks will follow the story.

GREEN IS IN, over 10,000 people signed up for Chevy Volts; WallMart may sell hybrids.  Via Instapundit.

IT IS ALL OVER THE BLOGS, including Drudge, that under proposed legislation all new homes constructed in California will have utility thermostats the State can control.  Really.  The Nanny State is at it again.

The Governator will govern you heat and lights.  Only in California where consumer pay 4 times the national average for gas and electricity would the legislature enact laws to allow the State to reduce ITs bills by shutting off a homes electricity and gas.  Remember the State buys electricity and gas out of State during peak demand.

Nanny State says she has to turn off your lights.  Of course, voters cannot do anything at all about this, remember California is Gerrymanerstan.

What a wonderful way for Nanny to reduce greenhouse gases.