EcoLinks

More tools for living sustainably in the urban environment

Seattle Utilities
- Seattle City Light -- Electricity
- Puget Sound Energy -- Natural Gas
- Seattle Public Utilities -- City of Seattle Water/Sewer/Solid Waste
Sources of renewable energy and appropriate technology ideas and products
Climate Solutions Energy Outreach Center, Olympia, Washington
Introductions to some of the energy-saving materials and ideas available that you can use in your home and business.
Northwest EcoBuilding Guild
Ecotope energy consultants
City Repair
Jade Mountain
World's largest selection of affordable, renewable energy products.
Real Goods
Demonstrates the need for renewable energy technologies that are clean, cost-effective, and non-polluting, and then provides helpful information and products.
Hypercars and Mesocars
- Hypercar Center, RMI
- Ford's Think urban mesocar
Home Energy Magazine Online
Reporting on the latest energy-efficient technologies for the home--from weatherization, to heating and cooling systems, to lighting, windows, appliances, and indoor air quality.
Integrated Renewable Energy (Seattle)
Marketing ground source heat pumps for residential heating and cooling
International Sustainable Solutions
Bringing good ideas from around the world to the budding sustainable technology companies of the Pacific Northwest.
Energy Efficient Rehab Advisor
Tips on how to give your home a green tune-up
Green Home Remodeling
City of Seattle guides
Other demonstration houses

The 1st residential rooftop photovoltaic electric intertie in Seattle
Pictures taken at a October, 2001, tour of the house which is near 75th Street and Roosevelt Avenue.
Adelmans' 30.5kW photovoltaic system
California. On line tour, photos, graphs, and references.
Zero Emission Manufactured Home
Idaho. On-line tour of a 2002 effort to build a highly efficient manufactured home with solar water and PV technologies. Compared with adjacent "standard" manufactured home.
Urban Options Energy and Environmental Demonstration House
Michigan. With help from the City of East Lansing and numerous businesses, the house was renovated and refurbished to demonstrate numerous ways of saving energy and paring utility bills that can be used in most homes.
Mister House
Minnesota. Passive solar, earth-berm home show-casing open-source home automation software
Green building materials

RE Sources and the RE Store
Salvaged hardware and building materials in Bellingham and Seattle
Reusable Building Materials Exchange (RBME)
Small or large quantities of reusable, scrap and surplus building materials. (Snohomish, Pierce, Thurston, Mason and Skagit counties)
Industrial Materials Exchange (IMEX)
Matches businesses that produce wastes, industrial by-products, or surplus materials with businesses that need them. (Pacific Northwest)
Energy statistics

DOE: ENERGY INFORMATION AGENCY
NERGY INFORMATION AGENCY: discover official energy statistics from the Department of Energy with sections on publications, historical data to 1949-projections to 2020, presentations, press releases, energy information by geography, fuel, sector, or price.
Solar Energy

UN study on solar
Wind Energy

Ireland hosts world's largest offshore wind farm
The $630 million project will have three times the electricity-generating capacity of all current offshore wind farms worldwide; its 200 turbines will produce 10 percent of Ireland's power. When completed, the project will help Ireland cut its greenhouse gas emissions by about 13 million tons per year. Some of the turbines will be up and running by the fall. (BBC News, 11 Jan 2002)
Wave/Tide Energy

AquaEnergy on Mercer Island, Seattle, WA
Wave energy
Blue Energy in Vancouver, BC
Tidal energy
Miscellaneous
- Rain Barrels in Seattle
- Energy flow charts for the US, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
- Native plants (Seattle)
- Household hazardous waste disposal
- Junk mail reduction in King County
- More junk mail reduction