Households Respond to the Grid

An article found on Redherring that talks about an experiment which seems to suggests it has revealed crucial consumer behaviour in the US pertaining to energy usage.

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"A recent study by the U.S. Department of Energy has shown that households will reduce their electricity usage when given accurate, real-time information about their energy consumption and costs. The results of the year-long study were announced on Wednesday."

Green is Good

Business of Going Green Burns Bright

Carbon Crisis

Great Article found in the National Geog.

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"Here's how it works. Before the industrial revolution, the Earth's atmosphere contained about 280 parts per million of carbon dioxide. That was a good amount–"good" defined as "what we were used to." Since the molecular structure of carbon dioxide traps heat near the planet's surface that would otherwise radiate back out to space, civilization grew up in a world whose thermostat was set by that number. It equated to a global average temperature of about 57 degrees Fahrenheit (about 14 degrees Celsius), which in turn equated to all the places we built our cities, all the crops we learned to grow and eat, all the water supplies we learned to depend on, even the passage of the seasons that, at higher latitudes, set our psychological calendars."