Energy

Title: Mayor’s Green Building Tour
Location: City of Houston
Description: Mayor’s Green Building Tour

For more information, e-mail Steve.Stelzer@cityofhouston.net

Gensler Architects
700 Milam, Ste 400
Houston, TX 77002
Date: 2010-01-17

(No gas, no oil, no noise, no emissions… NO KIDDING!) Submitted by Dale Brooks, President, Houston Electric Auto Association

With a conversion kit installed into his Toyota Prius, Jerry Asher reasoned that folks should see and believe in Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) as a solution to our Nation’s Energy Crisis. (more…)

By Ella Tyler

The agenda for the upcoming session of the Texas Legislature will be dense with bills that, directly or indirectly, affect the quality of the environment in Texas. More than 50 bills have already been filed that match the criteria “environment” on the legislature’s online bill search.

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By Ella Tyler

The Houston area now has three electric car dealers!

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By Ella Tyler

One Father’s Day, my siblings and I bought our father a wallet. It seemed like a great gift – his old one was falling apart and the new one was the same kind. He didn’t take it out of the box. So we re-wrapped it in different paper for Christmas, and again for Valentine’s Day, and his birthday, and Father’s Day again. We got a lot of mileage out of that wallet, but he never used it. We should have given him a book. (more…)

By Ella Tyler

Finally, an excuse that shopping is good for the environment! From 12:01 am on Saturday, May 24 to 11:59 pm on Monday, May 26, purchases of certain Energy Star products are exempt from Texas sales taxes. (more…)

By Ella Tyler

The first nuclear plant license application to be filed in the US in 29 years is for two new units at the South Texas Project nuclear power station site in Matagorda County.

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By Leslie Pennycock

Kermit the Frog lamented, “It’s not easy being green,” but it’s getting easier all the time. Every day, there are more choices, products, and technologies that make “going green” more practical. Here are some helpers to make 2008 the greenest year yet. (more…)

By Ella Tyler and Leslie Ness

Planet Ark, the daily listing of international environmental news stories reported by Reuters news service, recently had an intriguing headline – Texas Mayors Promote Fluorescents as ‘State Bulb’. (more…)

By Ella Tyler

The Houston Renewable Energy Group’s tour of alternate energy homes and buildings, which will be tomorrow (10/6/07) afternoon, is also a chance to look at Houston’s first few LEED residences. (more…)

By Ella Tyler

Now that we are having a real summer, with temperatures into the high 90s, next month’s electric bill might be a shocker. However, the city of Houston has a new web site, Power to People, which explains five easy, low-cost steps to reduce your electric bill. It also allows you to sign up to win $200 off your August electric bill. (more…)

By Ella Tyler

The Houston City Council approved a contract Wednesday that devotes at least a third of the city’s energy purchases to wind-generated sources. The contract makes Houston a leader in green power use. (more…)

By Ella Tyler

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 designated the second Sunday in March as the date for Daylight Saving Time to begin in 2007 and the first Sunday in November as the date for it to end. That date is upon us, so at 2 am on Sunday, March 11, clocks should be set forward one hour. On November 4, they will be set back. (more…)

By Ella Tyler

Environmental activists from across the state will be meeting in Austin on February 11 and 12 to rally and lobby against issuing permits for proposed new coal-fired power plants under a fast-track procedure authorized by Texas governor Rick Perry in October 2005. (more…)

By Ella Tyler

How many light bulbs does it take to change the world? Only one, but it has to be the right kind, according to the Department of Energy. (more…)

By Ella Tyler

A green vacation does not have to be an “eco-adventure” to a foreign country or a Spartan camping trip to a remote park. Trips anywhere, for pleasure or business, can be made green friendly by staying at hotels that conserve resources, using public transportation at your destination, and supporting local businesses. (more…)

By Ella Tyler

The Department Energy is currently considering sites to expand the Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s storage capacity. In this program, crude oil is stored in caverns created by the solution mining of salt domes. There are currently four existing facilities, two in Louisiana and two in Texas, with a capacity of about 727 million barrels. (more…)