Bill Gates is copying Mapawatt
Yes, that's right, Bill Gates is copying Mapawatt. He just started his blog (The Gates Notes) and Mapawatt has been around for almost a year now, so ipso facto he must be copying us. Ok...
Energy Monitoring and the Big Three: Google, Microsoft, and Apple
It seems that in the last year solutions available for residential energy monitoring have exploded. Luckily this is Mapawatt's "bread and butter". The boom in popularity has a lot do to with the flood of products hitting the market for people to track and control their energy usage (see a complete list of energy monitoring companies here), but a large part of the increased attention in this area is due to the focus that Google, Microsoft
How hot is your water?
Thanks to a comment the author posted on a blog I wrote, I had the fortune to discover the great energy savings blog Energy Boomer. While perusing the site I discovered this article on using a meat thermometer to save money on hot water. This simple yet ingenious idea is a great way to determine if the water in your h
Home Energy Audit - What are you waiting for?
Blower Door Test
How not to convince people to live sustainably
Here puppy, puppy
Ultimate Green Homes
Outdoor Wood Furnace: Heating with Biomass
The last few pages of any magazine are chock full of advertisements that sound too good to be true, and Popular Science is no exception. For example, I recently covered Edenpure and
Happy 2010: Get ready to be amazed by Mapawatt
2009 was a good year for Mapawatt blog. This blog was born in the middle of February of 2009, and in less than a year we have already:
How to Live Off-Grid
Off-Grid Serenity
There are two main things you will need to focus on if you want to live off-grid: using less energy and figuring out how you are going to cleanly produce the energy you do use.
I have solved Climate Change!
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