Apartment Therapy Tagged: energy

10 Ways to Get The Most Out of Your Freezer

Ah, the freezer. It might just be our favorite piece of kitchen tech—keeping food fresh, cold and spoil-free. But there are ways to get more out of this household appliance (and spend less while...

Six USB & Power Grommets for the Desk and Kitchen

One of the most common questions we receive is about hiding cables and wires in and around the computer. With the myriad of accessories that many of us live and depend upon, plugging in and out USB,...

The Most Useless Energy-Related Products?

Have you ever heard of an energy retrofit that just sounded too good to be true, like insulating paint or passive fresh air inlets? This list has some obvious picks, but a couple on here might just ...

Solé Integrated Solar Tiles by SRS Energy

This is the future: solar-energy-capturing products that look just like their non-solar counterparts. The Solé Power Tile is an electricity-generating tile that can be installed alongside traditional...

Low-Tech Lighting Takes on the Look of a Light Bulb

With everyone so concerned about both money and the environment, we're all making the effort to cut back on our home's energy use and slim down those utility bills. But even better than shutting off u...

RoofRay Helps Estimates Your Solar Potential

Your mom always told you were full of potential, didn't she? But saying and knowing are two different things, and that's especially the case when you're considering adding solar panels to harness the ...

TV TrickleSaver Saves You Time ...and Energy!

We try and turn off all the unneccesary power-suckers in a standard routine every time we leave the house. The lights go off, the computer goes into sleep mode and the TV, DVD player and cable box eac...

Microsoft Hohm Helps You Save Energy and Money

In this economy, and probably in any other, it's always wise to find ways to save money on expenses. Analyzing your power bill and taking the time to find out exactly what costs you the most is a grea...

Smartbulbs: Lightbulbs Get an LED Update

We all want to save money. That's why most of use have started using these fluorescent bulbs instead of the traditional ones. They are way more energy efficient and will save you a bunch of money thro...

Does Every Little Bit Count?

On of the big theories in green thinking is that "every little bit counts." Rather than just give up on environmentalism because you can't make your home into a solar-powered lair, you're encouraged t...

How to Monitor Your Home Utilities Usage Using Webcams and Google Android

It's always good to find new ways of saving money. One of the easiest ways is monitoring the amount of electricity that you use, plus the amount of water and gas. This lets you see how to curtail need...

Green Ideas Somniloquy: Download While Your Computer is Sleeping

If you could save between 60 and 80% of the electricity you normally use through your computer, would you be interested? How about if you could download and IM while your computer was in sleep mode? T...

It's Earth Day! 5 Tech Energy Facts to Help You Conserve

Earth Day, founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970 as an environmental teach-in, is designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. But just because the day is all a...

eLite: The Easy Energy Monitor That Will Save You Money

Times are tough, pretty much everywhere. The recession is hitting most businesses hard. That means that energy monitors that will save you money are getting that much more interesting. Why waste money...

Dial4Light: Energy Saving Gone Too Far?

At the risk of sounding like Martha, we'll say this: Going green is generally touted as a good thing. Turning off lights when you leave a room or setting your thermostat to a cooler setting while you'...

WattBlocks: Like a Wooden Stake for Your Gadget Vampires

One of the easiest ways to save energy—for your planet and your wallet—is to cut power completely to those gizmos that use "standby power" even when they're turned off. Look at your DVD pl...

The Environmental Impact of a Google Search

Many people don't realize that many of our favorite cyber-spaces have real-life homes, which means that running websites has a real-world environmental footprint. Files are stored on servers, viewed b...

Where Your Laptop's Power Goes

When you're almost out of juice and reach for your laptop's power cord, you just see two things: your power-draining thousand-dollar hunk of metal (couldn't it keep a three-hour charge last year?) and...

Help Power Your Home with a Really Chic Patio Table

If there's a lack of solar powered homes out there in the world, it's not for a lack of desire. We took an informal survey (of eight friends at the bar the other night) about if you would install sola...

Do You Leave Your Gaming Console On All the Time?

We'd like to think that most of the readers of the Apartment Therapy family of sites (That's all those links resting at the very top of this page) are in favor of making green choices in their life. S...

Heel-Strike Generators Will Harness Pedestrian Power

It's no secret that people worldwide are putting some energy—no pun intended—into finding alternate energy sources. The latest shining example comes from the UK, where plans are underway t...

Eco-Button Blasts Your Unit Into Hypersleep

Don't you wish saving the world was easy? Don't you wish you could just push a button and drastically reduce your energy consumption? Well, you can. One push of this Captain Planet-themed button activ...

Green Ideas: Keep Track of Your Energy Usage

We are all trying to conserve electricity and energy in our homes. It's not always an easy thing to track. This cool looking ecological object is called Wattson and plugs itself into the electricity c...

Berkeley Lamp II: The Lamp that Science Built

There's nothing too remarkable about this lamp at first glance. It just looks like your run-of-the-mill mass-production hotel nightstand lamp. But this one claims to be "The Only Lamp Built By Science...

Coin Lamp Helps You Save Out of Neccessity

We all know how much AT cares about "going green" in your household and your daily life. But, hey... green is expensive! We know that it's cheaper and better in the long run to invest in solar panels ...

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