TweetWinter’s coming, and that means you’ll start to feel all those drafty areas of your house. The breeze in the breakfast nook, the cold floor when you step out of bed… Fight back with foam and caulk. They’re one of the cheapest weapons in the energy efficiency arsenal, and offer both a quick payback and [...]
TweetWhat’s more fun than hunting for pirate treasure? Hunting for energy waste, of course! (editors note: By “fun” I mean “safer and more reliable.”) The US EPA offers a Lean Energy Toolkit to help organizations implement Lean improvement strategies in their energy infrastructure. We’ve talked about Lean before, as its “deliver value and reduce waste” [...]
TweetI’ve talked about visualizing greenhouse gas emissions before, but Sam Savage’s book The Flaw of Averages made me wonder whether there were even more powerful ways to understand data than simple graphs and charts. He calls them “Mindles.” The concept goes something like this: you don’t learn to ride a bike by studying the equations [...]
