SOLAR THAT LOOKS LIKE SCULPTURE

SOLAR THAT LOOKS LIKE SCULPTURE

Now solar energy can be visible and beautiful. Installed in prominent places, Spotlight Solar systems make clean energy and signal a property owner’s care for the environment. Spotlight installations remind your stakeholders of your environmental stewardship — like a LEED medallion that you can see from blocks away.

Spotlight Solar uses standard solar panels, but in sculptural forms designed to inspire. This adds image value to your return on other environmental investments. Your customers will advocate, employees will gain pride, and tenants will prefer your property.

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  Lift (15)

  Lift presents solar energy in an exuberant way. Lift’s modular design provides flexibility. Position its arms and solar panels to balance energy production and aesthetics. Even color-coordinate with your building. Add lighting, power outlets, or a touch-screen – so people can learn about solar as they stand in the shade of beautiful clean energy.
   
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  Trestle (5)

  Trestle offers a strong, deliberate aesthetic, recalling heavy industry and railroads. Among our products, it provides the most shade and sense of place, making it great for courtyards and meeting areas. As always, Spotlight offers customization and accessories.
   
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  Industry (5)

  The most modular of Spotlight's offerings, Industry can be configured in many ways. A single arm with four solar panels, or up to four arms with 16 panels, lighting, and more. Industry is also designed to suit a range of architectural styles.
   
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  Cascade (4)

  Cascade takes a modernist tone, with an aerospace feel. Each solar panel can be individually positioned, enabling a range of options. And the supporting pillar has plenty of room for batteries and other equipment, making it well-suited to off-grid applications.

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Switch To Digital

Switch To Digital

Today I’m going to talk to you about how you can help save our forests and the environment by switching from printed newspapers, magazines and books to their digital versions.

It’s a known fact that the production of printed material requires a significant amount of energy, water and paper in order to end up with a useable product.

With the popularity of tablets and eBook readers we now have a greener choice. Digital book readers can be used over and over and over again and they don’t use that much electricity. In fact eBook readers, last as long as one full month on a single charge!

Almost all major newspapers and magazines are available electronically. Many are predicting that eBooks will eventually replace traditional paper books all together in the near future. And in terms of convenience eBooks can’t be beat. You can quickly and easily download them and you can carry hundreds of titles with you wherever you go. Now whenever you read you can feel happy that you are contributing to a greener earth.

That’s all for today. Thanks for watching.

We’ll see you again next time.

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Pools, Spas and Hot Tubs

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TIP – Buy A Device Timer For Your Pump: Depending on the materials used in the construction of your pool, you may be given different instructions on how long the pump needs to run. By putting it on a timer, you can customize the amount power it uses so that it uses no more than it needs. Also, you will be able to go out with confidence knowing that your pump will stop running when it whould whether you’ home or not.

TIP – Shop For A Variable-Speed Pump: In California these are required by law. Basically, these run just like a normal pump, but shift-down to a lower speed for cleaning and circulation purposes. Like most of the best energy-saving devices, these cost a little more than their conventional and inefficient ancestors, but you are guaranteed to make the difference up tenfold in a year’s worth of pool-heating costs.

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Other

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TIP – Dress The Part: Have you considered how your clothing choices affect your power usage? The bottom line is that if you aren’t dressed appropriately for either the indoor or outdoor climate in which you find yourself at work or play, you are wasting energy in one way or another.

When driving or at the office, if you’re not dressed warmly enough you’ll be tempted to turn up the heat. If you’re overdressed, not only will you be generating more dirty laundry than necessary, but you may have to open a window in colder months to be comfortable, allowing the inside heat to escape and go to waste. So reach for a sweater or a pair of shorts… not the thermostat!

TIP – Power4Body: Did you know that statistically-speaking people mostly use their cars to travel distances of five miles, or less?!? Get out your bike and use it when weather permits. Or walk! You’ll not only be saving energy by not using your car, but you’ll be charging your body with some real electrolytic power! People who do this regularly discover that they havemore energy for work and play, not less. They are also far-less likely to become ill or overweight (and how this helps keep money in your pocket should be obvious)!

The Other or Constitutive Other (also the verb othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy; it opposes the Same. The Other refers, or attempts to refer, to that which is other than the initial concept being considered. The Constitutive Other often denotes a person Other than one's self; hence, the Other is identified as "different"; thus the spelling is often capitalized.^{[citation neede}

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TIP – Unplug And Save: You may be one more homeowner who is unaware of this, but did you know that your electrical devices continue to draw power even when they’re switched-off?!? It’s true. While the trickle of energy leaked by each device in your office may not amount to much on their own, together they can add up to a substantial and unnecessary expense!

When not in use, unplug your home office peripherals from their power source. This includes computers, printers, monitors, charging stations and lamps. It’s the only real way to be sure that you’re not paying for wasted energy!

TIP – Make The Switch To LCD Monitors: Hey… they save space, use less power, and produce a higher-resolution image. So why not?

Small office/home office (or single office/home office; SOHO) refers to the category of business or cottage industry that involves from 1 to 10 workers.

Before the 19th century, and the spread of the industrial revolution around the globe, nearly all offices were small offices and/or home offices, with only a few exceptions. Most businesses were small, and the paperwork that accompanied them was limited. The industrial revolution aggregated workers in factories, to mass produce goods. In most circumstances, the so-called "white collar" counterpart — office work — was aggregated as well in large buildings, usually in cities or densely populated suburban areas.

Home office

Beginning in the mid-1980s, the advent of the personal computer and fax machine, plus breakthroughs in telecommunications, created opportunities for office workers to decentralize. Decentralization was also perceived as benefiting employers in terms of lower overheads and potentially greater productivity.

Many consultants and the members of such professions as lawyers, real estate agents, andsurveyors in small and medium-size towns operate from home offices.^{[citation needed]}

Several ranges of products, such as the armoire desk and all-in-one printer, are designed specifically for the SOHO market. A number of books and magazines have been published and marketed specifically at this type of office. These range from general advice texts to specific guidebooks on such challenges as setting up a small PBX for the office telephones.

Technology has also created a demand for larger businesses to employ individuals who work from home. Sometimes these people remain as an independent businessperson, and sometimes they become employees of a larger company.

In popular literature, the home office has not been the topic of as many works as the "normal" modern office. Brian Basset, the author of the newspaper comic stripAdam@home, has sometimes described its more humorous aspects.

The small office home office has undergone a transformation since its advent as the internethas enabled anyone working from a home office to compete globally. Technology has made this possible through email, the World-Wide Web, e-commerce, videoconferencing, remote desktop software, webinar systems, and telephone connections by VOIP

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Conserving Water

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TIP – Strategic Planting: Save flowers and plants that require a good supply of water for flatter ground. The earth in sloped terrain doesn’t do a great job of holding on to water, and this can leave you watering the foliage that you plant there far too often… and sometimes without even getting good results!

For added greenery in these areas, opt instead for cacti, moss, and other forms of groundcover that won’t place such high demands on your water bill. Adding plants of this kind to sloped terrain will also help prevent soil erosion over time!

TIP – Keep A Truly Green Lawn: Gone are the days in which we could dump as much water as we wanted onto our lawns, and combine it with chemical fertilizers to have a lawn so thick and green that it almost didn’t look natural. The hike in water prices in recent years alone forbids this, but an increasing number of municipalities are instituting bylaws that give people assigned days during which they can water their lawns… and fines if they do not comply! Let your lawn become a more natural green.

Conserving Water Shoreland Best Management Practices Number 18 of 18 in the Series

What Are Shoreland BMPs?

Best Management Practices (BMPs) are actions you can take to reduce your impact on the environment. BMPs have been described for agriculture, forest management, and construction. This fact sheet describes BMPs you can adopt on your shoreland property to help protect and preserve water quality. In many cases, the best management for shorelands may be retaining the natural characteristics of your property.

Why Is Conserving Water Important?

Reducing our use of water will decrease water pollution, increase energy savings, and create more efficient use of our water resources. Too much water in an on-site sewage treatment system can flush untreated material through before organisms have a chance to break it down. If untreated material gets to the drainfield, the material can plug up the soil within the drainfield and shorten the life of the septic system. Sending too much water down the drain can also cause systems to "blow out," allowing untreated material to flow out onto the ground. If this occurs, the system needs to be dug up and repaired. Failing septic systems can:

• contaminate drinking wells
• cause health risks such as hepatitis or dysentery
• cause chemical pollution from household cleaning products
• contribute excess nutrients to ground water, lakes, or streams

Conserving water in rural areas will increase the life of existing septic systems. Conserving water within a municipal water system will reduce household expenses, increase treatment plant efficiency, and reduce the amount of electricity and chemicals needed to treat wastewater. In both situations, conserving water protects water quality through improved wastewater treatment.

How Much Water Do We Use?

A typical household of four uses 260 gallons of water each day. Much of this water is used in the bathroom. Toilets use 40% of the total, showers/baths and faucets use 35%. By contrast, 15% is used in the kitchen, and 10% for washing clothes.

Table 1: Typical water use (in gallons). Calculate how much your family typically uses in one week. ACTION TYPICAL USE CONSERVATIVE USE ULTRA-CONS. USE ? YOUR USE ? Toilet-flushing 6 (old standard) 1.5-3 (low-flow) Composting toilet Tub bath 30 (1/2 filled) 15 (1/4 filled) Sponge bath Shower 10 min: 50 (5 gal/min) 3 min: 15 (5 gal/min) 25 (2.5 gal/min) 7.5 (2.5 gal/min) Camper style (3 gal) Laundry - full load Top loading: 50-60 (older models) Front loading: 33 (older models) (Suds-saver reuses most of the "wash fill" for the 2nd load) 40 (newer models) 17-28 (newer models) Laundromat Dishwashing Machine: 12-15 (old-reg cycle) (Pre-rinsing before loading adds 3-5 gal) Hand: 16 (faucet rinse) 6-9 (new-reg cycle) 6 (basin rinse) Teeth-brushing 2 (faucet running) 1/8 (wet brush, brief rinse) Hand-washing 2 (faucet running) 1 (basin; brief rinse) Shaving 3-5 (faucet running) 1 (basin; brief rinse)

Produced by the Arrowhead Water Quality Team, a cooperative effort of Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, and St. Louis counties and state and federal agencies. All publicly funded agencies involved are committed to equal opportunity education, service, and employment.

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