Hello all you night owls!! You get the good stuff, I was posting my diary on my blog and thought I would share some of the goodies I found. For more great news check out my blog
They may be expensive, but it shows the tech is here.
ORANGE, Calif. - Orange County's first all-green new-home community, opened its sustainable model homes to the public this weekend. It's also trendy Orange County's first LEED Certified residential community, and its first all-solar multi-family community. The community is called "Deopt Walk". Models range from 1,277- to 2,010-square-feet, and start in the $600,000 dollar range. Depot Walk is also Orange County's first all-solar multi-family community. With systems provided by SunPower, maker of the world's most advanced solar technologies, these homes will get up to 50 percent of their electrical power from this non-polluting, clean energy source. Solar energy helps to offset electrical usage at the time of day when homes and businesses demand it most. It also allows utilities to operate fewer fossil-fuel consuming power plants.
Located on Maple Avenue at Pixley Street within Orange's Old Towne Historic District, Depot Walk offers the first new-housing in 25 years. Priced from the $600,000s, the new neighborhood will feature 32 California Brownstones / townhomes, of which three are live-work units, and five are integrated affordable housing.
The Phillippines has the right idea
The Department of Agriculture has embarked on a massive greening project to help counter the adverse effects of future seasonal dry spells. This will include planting of one million trees in watersheds and rehabilitation of small water impounding works in farms across the country.
Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap said in a statement that the project, dubbed the Soil and Water Army for Resources Management (SWARM), is initially being implemented in the North Luzon Agribusiness Quadrangle (NLAQ). Yap said SWARM would cover a total of 6.6 million hectares of land in Luzon and 1.41 million hectares in the Visayas, which are prone to droughts or typhoons. He added that SWARM would require one million volunteers to plant vegetables, fruit trees and forest tree species in identified priority sites.
The project also includes repair and restoration of small water impounding projects serving 400 hectares, which will benefit some 4,000 farmers, as well as the rehabilitation of 19,600 hectares of upland areas in Northern Luzon, Yap said.
This to me is an amazing undertaking!! 1 million trees. This is the perfect example of public officials actually DOING their job, paying attention to the world around them and doing what they can to rectify and prepare for trouble ahead. Now will those trees be full grown tomorrow? No, but they are preparing for the future. GOOD JOB!!!
It's late so I may not be around too long but I hope this brightens your day or night or whatever hehe.