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December 31, 2008
Year in Review: Top 5 Really Natural Posts of 2008
Happy New Year! The following is a recap of the top ten posts that were written and received the most traffic on Really Natural in 2008.
- Solar Hot Water Heaters Found on 90% of Israel's Rooftops: In the 1950s, Israel experienced a fuel shortage, and residents responded by installing solar hot water heaters on their rooftops. By 1983, 60% of homes had solar hot water heaters, and current law requires their installation. Jerusualem's skyline is beautifully cluttered with 90% of homes' rooftops adorned with solar hot water heaters.
- Toyota Adding Solar Panels to Prius to Power Air Conditioning: The Toyota Prius has long been the golden child of the environmental movement for its fuel economy. When the EPA changed the standards for reporting fuel economy on new car stickers to include the use of air conditioning, the hybrid Prius lost a few miles per gallon. That may all change, now that Toyota plans to install solar panels on the roof of high end models to power the AC.
- Build a Green Home - No More Power Bills Ever: A New Jersey engineer Mike Strizki has created a green home resulting in no more power bills ever, and not just electric bills. Strizki converts sunshine into electricity using photovoltaic panels - and then uses the electricity to wring hydrogen for fuel out of ordinary tap water.
- Your Flat-Screen TV is Worse for the Environment than a Coal Burning Power Plant : Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) has been deemed the "missing greenhouse gas", because it is not covered by the Kyoto Protocol, yet it is 17,000 times stronger than carbon dioxide! NF3 used to be produced in tiny amounts, but the boom in flat-screen TVs has changed that.
- Solar Stik Portable Solar Array Cheaper than a Generator to Run: If you ever have the need for green, portable power, Solar Stik is the "new generator". For example, Solar Stiks were sent to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. What is a Solar Stik? It is portable solar system that weighs about 100 pounds and can be set up in about 10 minutes.
September 25, 2008
Subscribe and Read Really Natural on Your Kindle!
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Really Natural subscription is now available on Kindle! If you subscribe, the Kindle edition of our blog will automatically be delivered to you wirelessly throughout the day. Full text and images are included! You can try it out for free for 14 days, then it is only $0.99 a month. What a deal!
Don't know what a Kindle is? A Kindle is a wireless device that you can download books, magazines, blogs, and newspapers. Kindle uses the same 3G network as advanced cell phones, so you never have to look for a wifi hotspot. Think of the paper you will save reading on your Kindle!
August 1, 2008
Really Natural July Monthly Roundup
Just in case you missed a post the first time around, here's our July monthly roundup!
...and Really Not
Alternative Energy
Beauty
Blogpire News
Business
Conservation
Electric Cars
Energy Savers
Entertainment
Fashion
Food
Green Homes
Kids
Product review
Really Natural Books
Really Natural Cars
Really Natural Products
Recycling
Shopping
Solar
Travel
Yard and Garden
community
environment
transportation
July 1, 2008
Really Natural June Monthly Roundup
June has sure gone out with a bang here in Northern California, where
forest fires continue to blaze. From
push reel lawn mowers to
green homes without power bills, it's been a fun month on
Really Natural!
Beauty
Blogpire News
Business
Electric Cars
Energy Savers
Fashion
Food
Green Homes
Office
Really Natural Cars
Solar
Yard and Garden
community
environment
technology
transportation
June 2, 2008
Really Natural May Monthly Roundup
May is behind us, and the summer solstice is approaching. Here is a roundup of our posts for May:
Alternative Energy
Baby
Beauty
Blogpire News
Business
Electric Cars
Food
Green Homes
Health
Home
Kids
environment
technology
May 1, 2008
Really Natural April Monthly Round-Up
Spring has sprung with lots of great product reviews, solar news, and electric vehicle developments!
Alternative Energy
Baby
Beauty
Blogpire News
Business
Celebrities
DIY (Do It Yourself)
Electric Cars
Energy Savers
Entertainment
Food
General News
Green Homes
Health
Holiday
Home
Product review
Really Natural Books
Really Natural Products
Recycling
Solar
Yard and Garden
technology
April 8, 2008
Really Natural is Now Carbon Offsetting Site Visitors!
It has been the practice of
Really Natural to
carbon offset the server for this site, as well as all Blopire sites. Now, we are also offsetting the carbon created by our site visitors. Using the service
CO2Stats, we are measuring total visitor electricity use and offsetting emissions. So far this month for
Really Natural, our server footprint is 4.3204 lbs CO2 (31.1088 kWh), and our client footprint is 0.4378 lbs CO2 (4.0473 kWh).
CO2Stats was started by Tim Sullivan and Alex Wissner-Gross, PhD students at Yale and Harvard respectfully. Sullivan explains:
Most internet users are unaware of its environmental impact. To solve this problem, we created CO2Stats, the first-ever tool that allows bloggers and webmasters all over the world to monitor the carbon footprints of individual web sites internationally. Our ultimate vision is to make the entire internet carbon-neutral. Our ultimate vision is to make the entire internet carbon-neutral.
We too share that vision!
February 29, 2008
May 23, 2007
Win $50 Bucks at Tool Snob
Thanks for being an avid reader of our blog which is published by Blogpire Productions. We'd like to share with you a new title just launched this week - ToolSnob.com. Blogpire Productions started ToolSnob.com to help homeowners, contractors, and hobbyists find, not only the tools that fit their needs, but to point out the ones that don't. The wrong tool can end up costing you time, money and hours of frustration. Tool Snob aims to be the most reliable and entertaining source for the latest power tool news and reviews.
Want a really good reason to visit? If you sign up for the Tool Snob newsletter by using the form below or on the Tool Snob web site, you'll be eligible to win a $50 gift certificate from Amazon.com. That's right, all you have to do is sign up for the newsletter and be on the list when we pick the winner at the end of June.
Sign up for the Tool Snob newsletter and win $50 bucks.
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April 30, 2007
Check out our New Site SuperCoolPets.com and Win $50
Thanks for being an avid reader of our blog which is published by Blogpire Productions. We'd like to share with you a new title just launched today - SuperCoolPets.com. Blogpire started SuperCoolPets.com to help other pet owners find the pet products they really need, to help them stay away from the products that they don't, and to point out cool stuff along the way.
Want a really good reason to visit? If you sign up for the Super Cool Pets newsletter by using the form below or on the SuperCoolPets.com web site, you'll be eligible to win a $50 gift certificate from Amazon.com. That's right, all you have to do is sign up for the newsletter and be on the list when we pick the winner at the end of May.
So sign up below and visit Super Cool Pets for all the latest pet news, gadget, and toy fun!
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April 23, 2007
Happy Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day, everyone, from all of us here at Really Natural.
Yep. We know we're a day late. We love you, but preferred to spend our Earth Day, well, outside enjoying it. We celebrated by taking a walk with friends, having dinner with family -- oh, and taking a quick trip to Home Depot to pick up our free compact fluorescent light bulb. (Russ used it to replace the bulb in our laundry closet -- perfect!)
It's pretty cool to see the attention that Earth Day is getting this year. Treehugger has been asking if recycling has jumped the shark, but our feeling is, the more folks who pay attention to reducing, reusing and yes, recycling, the better. Sure, we'd love to see a world where everyone's goal was no waste instead of less waste. But in the meantime, it feels good to know that folks are waking up to that fact that this Earth -- not to mention the condition in which we leave it to our kids and our kids' kids -- is our responsibility.
Let's hope all the attention translates to more than lip service. We wish you an excellent year!
November 24, 2006
Holiday Gift and Shopping Guides from Around the Blogpire
Our editors have been hard at work coming up with the latest products to give as gifts this holiday season. Each of our different sites has their own holiday gift guide on various topics including: shaving, hdtv, gps, gaming, coffee and espresso, kitchen gadgets, cookbooks, and more.
Make your holiday gift giving easier this season by visiting the holiday shopping guides below, and get your shopping done online without the crowds and hassle of ever leaving your comfy couch or computer chair.
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October 24, 2006
Blogpire Podcast - Liquor Snob - All The News that's Fit to Drink 10.24.06
Our special guest Jake Jamieson from Liquorsnob.com teaches us about Tequila, and we taste test P.I.N.K. caffeinated Vodka. And of course, we have the latest news and views from around the 'pire. We also answer your questions from the past couple of weeks so keep sending them in to podcast at blogpire dot com.
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With Hosts: Russell Miner and Jay Brewer and guest Jake Jamieson
Continue reading: "Blogpire Podcast - Liquor Snob - All The News that's Fit to Drink 10.24.06"
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