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So, Microsoft Hohm is going away next year, too. The feedback from customers and partners has remained encouraging throughout Microsoft Hohm’s beta period. However, due to the slow overall market adoption of the service, we are instead focusing our efforts … Continue reading →

The Minnesota Renewable Energy Society was hosting a screening of Carbon Nation tonight at the Bell Museum of Natural History in Minneapolis.  They also had tours of the University’s entry in the Solar Decathlon contest, a pretty neat little house. … Continue reading →

So, today is World Water Day – something I didn’t know existed until recently – until today, actually.  I usually think about energy, but water is as critical a resource as energy – or moreso.  With 5 million people joining … Continue reading →

I had been using Microsoft Hohm to graph month-by-month utility usage, and it used to pull bill data directly from Xcel.  And then I got solar, and a bidirectional meter, and it all fell apart.  Now nothing pushes to Hohm … Continue reading →

While the Tesla Roadster gets a lot of press and has serious cool factor, it’s out of reach for … well, for pretty much everyone.  Many more mainstream EVs are somewhat … milquetoast.  Leaf?  Yawn.  Honda Fit EV?  Fits are … Continue reading →

Yay!  I got my homebrew powermeter running (based on openenergymonitor.org’s design, still just stuck together on a breadboard) and after reading up on this article on the Mosquitto project’s blog, it’s not so hard to get data up to Google … Continue reading →

Wow… I had no idea that Joe Strummer’s old London Calling BBC World Service radio shows were so great. Many of them are available as podcasts on iTunes for free – and a few more are posted on this site.  … Continue reading →

From the “better late than never” department: Yay!  Google finally announced an API for their PowerMeter site.  So there’s hope that homegrown monitoring devices can hook up to some PowerMeter love… will be interesting to look over the API and … Continue reading →

Browsing around the internet archive, it seems that The Quran is the most popular download on the site, clocking in at 5.5 million. I, along with about 20 other people, was just happy to find Hum.

I’m realizing that we simply cannot count on our leaders to do it all – or for that matter, to do much at all.  Although I think things must change at a very basic institutional level, and therefore we must … Continue reading →