A recent three week competition wrapped up among colleges that saved a bit of money, water, and energy. The 2012 Campus Conservation Nationals (CCN) had approximately one-quarter of a million students participating at 150 colleges and universities across the country. Today’s Five Friday Facts tallies the total savings from their efforts: 1,739,046 kilowatt-hours of electricity [...]
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Five Friday Facts: Colleges Saving Energy
May 11th, 2012 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Conservation, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts 
Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Energy, Water Conservation 
No Comments »Double Set of Five Friday Facts: Natural Gas Leads the Pack
April 13th, 2012 Eric Wilson When looking at which energy source provides the most energy to the American economy, natural gas topped the charts for 2010 (the most recent year for which data was fully available). Today’s set of facts looks at the breakdown of the various sources and follows up last week’s Five Friday Facts which looked at the [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Renewable Energy Tags: Biomass, Coal, Energy, Geothermal, Hydroelectricity, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Oil Consumption, Solar Energy, Wind Power No Comments »EPA’s P3: Planet, Prosperity, People
April 7th, 2012 Eric Wilson In the vein of honesty, the three words under our logo, “People. Planet. Profit.” are not our own. John Elkington is credited with coining the phrase. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has swapped out “profit” for prosperity and rearranged the phrase, also known by the shortened “P3″. Under the umbrella of P3, EPA is running [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Eric Wilson, Green Products, Sustainability Tags: Calendar, Chemicals, Energy, EPA, Triple Bottom Line, Washington DC, Water No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Technology and US Fuel
April 6th, 2012 Justin Manger The incredible drop in imported liquid fuels such as oil over the last 6 years is due in large part to technological breakthroughs in drilling and recovery techniques that has let the U.S. capture more of its natural (though non-renewable) resources. The debates over the pros and cons to this trend of using advanced technology [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger Tags: Energy, Fracking, Natural Gas, Oil Consumption, Water No Comments »LightSail Energy, Storing the Wind and Sun
April 3rd, 2012 Eric Wilson The days of a single dominant energy source are just about over. In the U.S., no one source provides a majority of the energy that is converted into electricity. Recent numbers put coal at the top of several sources. It is responsible for 45% of the electricity generated as of 2010. Moving forward, there will be a [...]
Why Dig for Energy When We’re Bombarded Every Day?
March 25th, 2012 Eric Wilson Ever wonder why oil is underground? I don’t mean how it got there (decomposing organisms trapped below layers of sediment that were compressed). I mean why we go through the trouble of digging it out of the ground. I realize it’s energy dense, but hear me out. I find it kind of curious to think [...]
Listening Closely to the Energy Debate
March 20th, 2012 Eric Wilson We do not take a political position on this site. However, the other morning the three Republican candidates for the nomination all had curious comments on U.S. energy. I say three, because the radio station I was listening to did not mention Texas Representative Ron Paul’s position on the issue. I suppose the first question [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, News, Policy, President Obama Tags: Analysis, Bio-fuels, Energy, Oil Consumption, Peak Oil, Science No Comments »Inside the 2013 Department of Energy Budget
February 21st, 2012 Eric Wilson As part of the massive $3.8 trillion dollar federal budget proposed recently by President Barack Obama, $27.2 billion was geared toward the Department of Energy (DOE). For those interested, here is a PDF of the DOE budget. Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu provided details of the budget proposal as it pertains to his office. In [...]
Five Friday Facts: Affordable Green Housing
February 10th, 2012 Eric Wilson The following statistics come from EverBuildPro, a subsidiary of BOULD, a social enterprise that seeks “to end substandard housing through green building education.” 46.9% of all CO2 emissions in the US came from the building industry in 2009 compared to 33.5% from transportation 1.6 billion people live in substandard housing worldwide 40% of raw materials [...]
Posted in Education, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Green Building, Transportation Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Energy No Comments »Are Cities Really More Sustainable?
February 5th, 2012 Eric Wilson In the most recent Five Friday Facts, Justin provided information on the growth in cities outside the developed world. He points out that increasing populations pose challenges for sustainability. How can we support a global population in denser cities? The argument tends to go that cities are more sustainable since they use less land to [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Sustainability Tags: Cars, Collaborative Consumption, Energy, Food, Population Growth, Urban Planning No Comments »
