The iHouse Clayton Homes has introduced what they call “a home with form, function & features for a less dependent, more responsible living environment.” – the iHouse. The iHouse has nothing to do with the iconic Apple Inc., even though Clayton CEO and President Kevin Clayton said the following about it: We love what it [...]
“Her work is focused on improving the landscape and environment within impoverished and low-income communities. Carter starts at home, where she grew up, in the South Bronx. Majora Carter is an American environmental advocate and artist. She has demonstrated a range of environmental justice solution strategies in her hometown of the South Bronx, New York [...]
Keeping the Dream Alive Since childhood, it has always been my long term goal to one day generate and use renewable energy for my lighting and heating needs. With diminishing fuel wood, increasing energy demands and for ethical reasons, I strongly feel that renewable energy is the way to go. This aspiration was piqued at [...]
On Friday, March 20, the Business Daily published an article titled “Are we going green or is this just a sick joke?” Reading through, I do acknowledge the writer’s take on why green technology hasn’t been as widely adopted as the hype that often heralds GreenTech campaigns. Going green is in fact informed largely by [...]
Green Computing is a term that is dear to all Green IT pundits. Simply put, Green Computing is the study and practice of using computing resources efficiently. It encompasses routine practices that help save energy, and enhancement to computer programs and far-reaching hardware changes or replacement to consume less power. The main goal of green [...]
The Simple (and largely unattended) Things in Life Going green is not that hard. We all know that it is the simple things in life that make the biggest difference. Right? Yeah, right. These simple things also happen to be the most overlooked, and therefore, remain unattended or largely postponed. Information Abounds On a personal [...]
Welcome Back Green Kenya is back… Howdy partners! Hiatus The last post on this blog was on 3rd September, 2009. The core reasons why no more posts have been forthcoming are detailed on The Walkabout. New Home and Identity As you’ll notice, we have changed the Green Kenya identity (hope you like the new logo) [...]
It Hits the Fan There has been much talk about adverse changes in the climate, the Mau complex, the drying Mara river and other unpleasant things. I have just come across another very unpleasant human activity – an emerging dump site just behind the Moi International Sports Complex in Kasarani. The Moi International Sports Complex [...]
I have lately seen gradual uptake of greenhouses as a preferred way of growing horticultural crops. Even in my village. A green house is defined on Wikipedia as a structure with a glass or plastic roof and frequently glass or plastic walls; it heats up because incoming solar radiation from the sun warms plants, soil, [...]
Well, it’s been quite a while since I posted on Green Kenya. And sure enough, a lot has happened while I’ve been away. In this post, I share some wonderful recycling and reusing initiatives I have come across on the web. Here we go: Bricks from cow dung These are building bricks made from cattle [...]
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