If you’re looking to light up your garden in an eco-friendly manner, Solar Cynergy’s Solar LED lighting solutions are just the ticket. There’s a lot of solar lighting out there for landscaping, but I happen to like how this company’s lighting solutions look when implemented. For example:
This display is of of course around a pool, but you can imagine how awesome it would look around a curvy garden too. Here’s a more residential landscape idea for a garden path…

With President Barack Obama now at the helm of the United States, people are wondering just what will happen to the country. After all, it is in an economic crisis at present and the President does need to focus on things that will help the country make its way back to its prime.
One of the things that the new President is doing is looking at alternative energy as a good source of power. Instead of shelling out billions of dollars on how to further improve production of fossil fuel that the country has, he is instead aiming at how to …read more

The alternative energy industry is seemingly all smiles now. After all, they are looking at US President-elect Barack Obama as an ally of the industry with all of what is listed in the energy plans that this person has made.
According to the plans that Obama has listed, he is going to take the road towards putting in more of the nation’s budget into research. That way, there would be more knowledge on energy. He is also looking at having electric utilities moving towards renewable power.
Lyndon Rive is the president of SolarCity, a company that is into solar power and solar …read more

A week or two ago, I posted about McDonald’s going green because of their purchase of Solar Air Conditioners from Greencore.   Apparently,  also the U.S. Navy has ordered a few for their use.
GreenCore Technology Inc., formerly AquaCell Technologies Inc., has received an order from the United States Navy for its solar-powered air conditioners, which will be installed in a remote laboratory site operated by the Naval Research Laboratories (NRL).
You can download the Solar air conditioner’s technical specs here.   Model GC10200 – 2, the one that comes with the 170watt solar panel can provide  a cooling capacity of 10,200BTU/hr.   …read more

Now that the 2008 Beijing Olympics is just around the corner,  lets talk about why this olympics is green.   Apart from the solar showers I mentioned in one of my old posts,  this year’s olympics in Beijing features some of the most artistic building there is,  such as the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube building.
Another venue worth mentioning here in unpluggedliving is Beijing’s National Indoor Stadium.  A total of 1,124 solar panels have been installed on its roof.   These solar panels can supply up to 100kw of power which is enough to meet the lighting demands of the …read more

I’ve checked out a lot of sites on DIY homemade wind turbine / wind generator. I’ve narrowed it down to the top 5 based on the completeness of information, and how detailed it is. On top is what I considered the best one because it is composed of 3 videos on how to make your own wind turbine. A video of how to do it is simple the best instructional material for homemade wind turbine.
1.  Detailed  Video Instruction on how to make your own wind turbine
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

I came across this pdf document developed by the US Department of Energy and I think people who are thinking of going into solar energy will find this useful.
The document contains information such as

 Investing in a PV system
Tax Incentives
PV Sizing
 Selecting a PV provider
 Connecting PV to the grid

Here’s the link to the document.