Environmental Living Solar Power Energy Generation Guide
Environmental Living In Harmony With Everything
By James J Dixon
Environmental living, is reducing your impact to the
environment by living in harmony with everything around
you. Recycling recyclable products, using renewable
energy sources and creating reduced or no emissions
are some of your options when you are looking to review
your lifestyle and live in harmony with your environment
and reduce your carbon footprint.
You can help the environment by reducing the amount
of recyclables you send as garbage to landfills. Many
household products in your home can be recycled and
reused. For example, many paper products and bottles
often have a recyclable sticker or a logo on the label,
indicating they can be recycled.
You can also contact recycling companies in your local
area, to collect your recyclables. Many waste management
companies, collect recyclable household products. Taking
advantage of these options helps to improve your environmental
living.
Green Technology In Oregon
In 2006, at the Oregon Leadership Summit, an influential
crew of politicians, was told by economic development
expert and Harvard professor, Michael Porter, that Oregon
might distinguish itself as a leader in environment
living given its already solid advance in green technology
- and they listened!
Many Oregon businesses were already producing products
and services dedicated to environmental living and business
was behind green technology all the way. Out of this
meeting came the “Oregon Business Plan 2.0” headed by
the Oregon Associated Business group, devised to put
Oregon on the cutting edge, world wide, of environmental
sustainability.
Trees Provide Biomass To Power Generators
Oregon, deeply dependent on its trees, was already
practicing environmental sustainability in order to
keep its lumber industry competitive and sustainable.
Trees are a renewable resource.
As well as having a biological importance, that of
absorbing carbon from the air and breathing oxygen into
it, thereby cleaning and renewing air, trees also provide
fuel. One of their lumber companies uses wood, or “biomass”,
to power their electric generators.
Reducing Negative Impacts On The Environment
By using biomass to fuel their boilers, they don’t
have to burn the two million therms of natural gas that
it would otherwise take. Even the emissions are used
as process gases. Here’s a perfect example of what a
company dedicated to environmental living can do.
That’s what an Oregon company is doing in deference
to the environment. Their achievements can serve as
an example throughout the world of how, with just a
little consideration for environmental living, companies
can reduce their negative impacts on the environment
and save some money as well (seen the price of gas lately?).
Recycling, Shared Commuting And Composting
Moreover, Oregon has, per capita, more “green” buildings
than all other states. Since 2001, Oregon has also mandated
recycling, encouraged shared commuting, and promoted
compositing. The state honors the LEED certification,
which is the “Leadership in Energy & Environmental
Design” certification of the U.S. Green Building Council,
giving preference to those developers who are intent
on developing buildings radically oriented to upholding
and advancing environmental living standards.
A lofty example of such a building is found in Portland,
a sixteen story building, 400,000 square feet, that
is 61 percent more energy efficient that what even Oregon
requires of all building in its major city.
Windmill Turbines And Leader In Solar Cell Manufacture
Then Oregon, in the Northwest Vesta, boast of windmill
turbines powering businesses and home. And this is just
what dedicated Oregon businesses have done to advance
sustainable living, and set Oregon’s green revolution
in high relief throughout the world.
Oregon is not only leading in examples, but also in
products. Oregon is a leading manufacturer of solar
energy cells. She is a leader in the entire photo-voltaic
field, and its university is renown for its state of
the art green facilities, as well as a curriculum dedicated
to environmental living on the professional level.
Making The World A More Livable Place
You will find trombe walls, which are heaters that
run from collected solar energy, bio-swale filters for
cleansing collected rain water atop buildings which
returns the water to the rivers. These are just to name
of few of the products Oregon is producing to make the
world a livable place in times to come.
Hats off to Oregon, the green state that is standing
as tall as its pines in defense, of the earth and the
future of the human race.
Taking Advantage Of Environmental Living Options
You do not have to live in Oregon in order to take
advantage of environmental living options. You can look
at recycling many of your household items, rather than
sending them as garbage to the local landfill.
There are recycling companies collecting paper, bottles
and other recyclables. You can contact your local municipal
council to find out about recycling companies in your
area and arrange for a collection by placing your recyclables
on the kerb.
Generating Free Electricity With Free Sun Energy
Another option, is to use solar power to generate free
electricity for your home and business. There are many
ways you can collect free solar energy from the sun
to create solar power. One popular option is to use
solar panels, placed on your roof, or a sunny area in
your backyard, to collect sun energy and this energy
is converted to solar power to generate electricity
to meet all your power needs, including home lighting,
home appliances and even heating the water in your solar
pool.
The biggest advantage of generating solar power is
you are generating your own electricity from a free
energy source, the sun. This free electricity helps
to reduce the cost of your utility bills. Another advantage,
the source of energy is infinite and is therefore renewable.
There are almost no emissions when generating solar
power.
Reducing costs and reducing impact to the environment
is one of the main benefits of environmental living.
About the Author:
James J Dixon has written a number of articles on Our Living Planet including
Green Camping,
Going Green,
Green Products,
Green Gift Ideas,
Environmental Jobs.
Look out for new articles as they become available on this site.
Little Known Electric Car Facts.....
How does an electric car affect the environment?
The first thing that needs to be
addressed is that electric cars, depending on how the
fuel cells are created, are not entirely environmentally
friendly. Yes, they do not use gasoline and do not give
off any emissions but some models do have power grids
that use coal.
There are models of power grids
that are being developed that do away with the use of
coal. Even with using coal for the power grids, electric
cars are a vast, vast improvement over gasoline vehicles
and as a result are much better for the environment.
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