Tag: Air Conditioning

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  5 Destinations for Dog Sledding Tours Around the World

  Mush! Dog sledding vacations are wilderness travel that’s part arctic nostalgia and part Inuit homage, resulting in a unique way to see snowy countryside.

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  Lloyd Alter's Favourite Stories of 2011: July

  It's summertime, and the living is easy, and we are talking about air conditioning.

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  More Architectural Tricks To Keep Cool Without Air Conditioning

  We have covered many of the old ways of keeping cool, but Matt Grocoff points out another at the Old House Web: Cupolas. He writes:

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  Keep Cool With Culture, Not Contraptions

  I have been doing some over-the-phone consulting on Graham Hill's Lifeedited project, and the subject of air conditioning is on the table. I asked if the apartment he is renovating was going to be air

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  Design Is The Key To Keeping Cool Without Air Conditioning

  image credit Vince Michael Cameron Tonkinwise has noted "The window air conditioner allows architects to be lazy. We don't have to think about making a building work, because you can just buy a box." In fact most modern homes are uninhabitable without

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  Keep Cool Without Air Conditioning With Your Private Elevator Tower

  We are always looking for ways to live without air conditioning, but here is one we missed, courtesy of modern mechanix.

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  How Air Conditioning Changed How and Where We Live

  Rebecca Rosen writes in the Atlantic about a subject dear to our hearts- the dramatic effect of air conditioning on our house design, the things that we do, and even our patterns of settlement.

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  20 Billion Bucks A Year To Air Condition Troop Tents In Afganistan & Iraq - Nice Carbon Footprint Eh?

  The 20-billion dollar energy bill for cooling US troop tents in Afghanistan and Iraq each year seems ridiculous until you consider that the R-value of a tent wall is zero and that the fuel for

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  Financial Services Giant TIAA-CREF Wins Accolades From EPA for Energy, Water Efficiency Efforts

  The EPA gave an award recently to a surprising recipient: TIAA-CREF, one of the largest institutional real estate investors in the U.S. Considering the fact that buildings account for 40 percent of domestic energy

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  Memory, The Most Important Overlooked Environmental Tool?

  So much of environmentalism is about looking forward. Looking forward to the more socially and ecologically sustainable world we're trying to create. Looking forward via climate modeling, projections of energy use,

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  First Residential Solar Powered Air Conditioner Coming To US Market

  11% of electricity in America is used for air conditioning, a lot of it in hot, sunny locations. That's why we have followed the development of affordable solar powered air conditioning; it just makes so much sense and would save so much energy, often

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  Einstein Invented A Fridge That Runs On Heat, Had No Moving Parts

  TreeHugger has published a lot of posts about absorption refrigerators; they are common in off-grid situations and because they run on heat, they are possibly key to the holy grail of solar powered air conditioning. Jennifer

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  Is This "The World's First Solar Powered Air-Conditioning Unit"?

  Inhabitat calls it the "World's first solar powered air conditioning unit", as does the Shandong Vicot Air Conditioning Company. That is a rather grand statement, given that another Chinese company, BROAD, has been doing it for years , and there are

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  Lessons From The UK Heat Pump Study: Insulate First And Know What You Are Getting

  Sami recently wrote 80% of UK Heat Pumps Performing Badly and suggested that "Lloyd will no doubt be feeling more than a little validated by this study." Indeed; I will never

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  We Love Trees, But Can You Have Too Much Of A Good Thing?

  We are, after all, named TreeHugger, and have noted before on TreeHugger and Planet Green that trees are effective and sophisticated cooling devices, but perhaps one can have too much of a good thing.

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  Turkish Energy Minister to Environmentalists: If You Hate Our Policy So Much, Stop Using Energy

  The persistently high temperatures that have many parts of Turkey sweltering also have the country's air conditioners cranking

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  Learning From The Past, Designing For The Future: How They Air Conditioned In India 400 Years Ago

  It is hot in Rajasthan, India. Four hundred years ago when building palaces, they installed air conditioning to beat the heat. Caroline Howe of It's Getting Hot in Here explains: In Rajasthan,

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  Quote of the Day: Thomas Friedman On The Horrific Cost Of Air Conditioning

  Image: Huffington Post