ROCKWOOL: Latest Polar Vortex Should Prompt Leaders to Push for Energy Efficiency Overhaul
The Polar Vortex brings more than cold air, like serious health & economic challenges for millions of Americans living in old, energy inefficient homes.
The Polar Vortex brings more than cold air, like serious health & economic challenges for millions of Americans living in old, energy inefficient homes.
The Awair team is back with an updated version of its base station that brings together air quality monitoring, smartphone integration, an LED display all wrapped up in a beautiful design that makes it feel at home in just about any home.
The Awair Glow is a tiny, night light–sized appliance that brings smart air quality monitoring to your home. It doesn’t stop there, as it is also able to trigger actions to correct the issues. Awair sent us over a unit to review, so we took it for a spin over the course of a couple of weeks.
As we’ve been looking at in our series, air pollution is a serious global problem that is having a huge impact on the health of the world population, as well as being a massive drain on the economy. More than 90% of people on earth live in areas where air quality exceeds the limits recommended by the World Health Organisation, so it really is an issue that affects almost everyone.
Originally published on Energy Smart Ohio. By Nate Adams We’ve all seen the studies: Our Indoor Air Quality is terrible! It’s KILLING MILLIONS!! The problem with these studies is that if you’re like me you thought; “great, another scare tactic.” Or “it’s really only a problem in Asia.” Or of … [continued]
There are many problems with cars. EVs are not exempt from some of these, as well as some of their own. I wonder about batteries, and I assume most people wonder about batteries, but that’s not the focus of this piece. Problems I have noticed with the 2015 Nissan LEAF I am reviewing on a long-term … [continued]
We focus almost all our time on technologies that help to keep our air and water cleaner, and our climate more livable. However, there’s a whole other side of cleantech that we don’t tend to give second thought to — environmental monitoring technologies. How do we know technologies are … [continued]