I Speak For The Trees
[continued from Part 1] After meeting with the contractor that Ameren dispatched to walk my property line and mark trees,...
June 12, 2011
energy
I Am The Lorax
I am not a fan of Ameren. Ever since I spent seven days without electricity in the throes of a...
June 11, 2011
Stop Draggin’ My Car Around
Last year I wrote about the state of the electric car market, so I wanted to revisit the topic and...
June 7, 2011
Electric Cars Still Coming
A year ago I wrote about the electric car from Zenn Motors that was on the verge of becoming a...
June 12, 2010
An Inconvenient Purpose
A few years ago some folks started asking the question, What Would Jesus Drive? I’m not sure how seriously the...
November 15, 2009
Green vs Green
If you want to “go green” for environmental reasons, that’s great. If you want to do it for financial reasons,...
July 2, 2009
The Electric Car Cometh, Maybe
I’ve written about electric cars before, but for a while now I’ve been following what I consider to be the...
June 11, 2009
Free Energy
Last summer when I wrote about our solar water heater installation, I was anxious to see how it would function...
March 1, 2009
Solatube Solar Attic Vents
Back in July, I wrote about having a solar water heater installed. About the same time, I also had solar-powered...
December 12, 2008
Some Like It Hot
As I mentioned last month, we planned to install a solar water heater in our home this year. That plan...
July 28, 2008
Going Solar
As I mentioned previously, I was considering installing a photovoltaic system this year to offset some of our home energy...
June 9, 2008
Wanna Play Monopoly?
As I write this, there are still over 500 people in the St. Louis area without electricity, according to AmerenUE‘s...
August 12, 2006
Viza Tank 50QT-9 Motor Scooter
A friend of mine reminded me of an old joke about mopeds. Well, that may be true, but it doesn’t...
October 5, 2004
