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Make Everyday an Earthday

"Make Everyday an Earthday." Source – U.S. Dept of Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy has a really neat interactive website that provides a whole bunch of tips on how to save money, and protect the environment.

“Make Everyday an Earth Day,” includes an illustration of a house with all of the appliances and features you [...]

Rhode Island Wind Power

Rhode Island has made available $8,395,000 in grants, funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), to help fund 25 percent of the upfront costs associated with renewable energy projects for Rhode Island residents, businesses, municipalities, non-profit organizations and academic institutions.

This is good news for Middletown, RI. based Rhode Island Wind Power, [...]

Watching windpower at Mars Hill Wind Farm

Mars Hill Wind Farm

I am not quite sure how bored you would need to get to want to log onto a website to watch 28 wind turbines do their thing, but its now possible to watch New England second largest wind farm live in action.

First Winds 85$ million wind farm project on top of [...]

Soundcentury launches new logo

soundcentury logo

Here is the new logo that hopefully will remain as the permanent logo for Soundcentury.

Other news…Soundcentury is now primarily focused with the New England Music Scene. Why not? It rocks and I live in Maine. I spent years photographing bands in Vermont and many of these bands will be featured in upcoming podcasts [...]

Solar Powered iPhone and iPod

Try walking down a busy city street, or stroll through your local grocery and for no more than 30 seconds look around you at the people passing you by. Chances are very good that at least a few of them were punching something into their mobile device, or hugging it to their ear.

Various types of [...]

Electricity gets smarter with Smart Grid Technology.

Smart Grid Technology. Soundcentury.

Trying to stay on top of this stuff is kind of crazy. There are so many emerging technologies geared toward softening our blows to this fragile, beautiful planet. There seems to be quite a bit of buzz surrounding smart grid technology.

Smart grid technology relies on an intelligent monitoring system, which [...]

Sunpower Solar Company

Soundcentury. Indie Rock | Alternative Energy

Look up in the sky on the next sunny day. Do you see that big huge yellow ball that is stinging your eyes unless you have a nice pair of shades on. It’s hard to miss. It’s sitting right there amongst those clouds in the big blue sky.

With a [...]

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Gets Local.

United States Secretary of Energy Steven Chu

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu recently announced that more than $20.5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be allocated to five major projects.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act supports deployment of community-based renewable energy projects, such as biomass, wind and [...]

Perhaps Copenhagen was not a failure

copenhagen climate summit positive [...]

Harvard Digs the Sun

The future of energy can be found by looking up in the sky and Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass understands this well. On January 12th, CarbonFree Technology, Integrys Energy Services, Inc., and SunPower Corporation announced the completion of a money-saving rooftop solar power system. The 500-kilowatt Sunpower system is Harvard’s largest and most up-to-date solar [...]