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Tips To Save Energy During Holiday Season

December or holiday season is the most expensive time of the year where people spend on food, entertainment, gifts, home decoration or Christmas decoration items etc. On top of these additional costs...

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A Simple Electric Power Audit of Your Home

The basic idea of an electrical energy audit is to analyze the amount of electrical energy used by every device. An electrical home energy audit can help you understand your usage, conserve and even...

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Eco-friendly LED lights for Mysore Palace

Mysore: In an attempt to reduce energy consumption in Mysore Palace, the authorities concerned have decided to replace high-energy consuming light fittings (not those which illuminate the palace, but...

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“Ban The Bulb”- Campaign In India

Greenpeace India launched the “Ban the Bulb” campaign,  calling for a phase out of inefficient light bulbs by 2012. Ban The Bulb (BTB) campaign is to discourage the use of traditional incandescent...

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Energy Saving LED – A case study on LED BULBS

Energy Saving LED Bulbs to Replace Palace Lights Mysore, Oct. 12 (KMC)-The Mysore Palace Board, as its first step towards energy conservation, has commenced the work of replacing the light fittings...

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LPG Piped Gas Systems for Residential Flats

In a conventional LPG distribution system, consumer has to call up the distributor, book refills and stay at home to receive gas. But in LPG Piped Gas System/LPG Reticulate System, consumer gets 24...

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Reticulated Gas System For Apartment Complex

Reticulated gas system promises an uninterrupted supply and a host of other benefits for the households. The system essentially involves a piped network in an apartment complex that supplies cooking...

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Thermal Insulation For Apartment

The term thermal insulation can refer either to materials used to reduce the rate of heat transfer, or the methods and processes used to reduce heat transfer. Thermal insulation tends to be most...

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Keep Your Home Cool This Summer

Keeping your home cool during summer can be a challenge when temperatures begin to rise—and unfortunately, so does your energy bill. The easiest way to keep your home cool this summer is not to let it...

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Solid State Lighting for your Home…

Solid-state lighting (SSL) refers to a type of lighting that uses LEDs, OLEDs and PLEDs as sources of illumination. The same reason your great-grandfather bought an Edison lamp- FUEL IS EXPENSIVE! The...

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Residential Solar System Increases Sale Price

Residential Solar System plays vital role in real estate Sale Price. The study proves that a residential building with Solar Systems sell for a premium over homes without solar installations. With...

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LED Tube Light For Energy Efficienct Apartment

Today LED tube lights deliver equal or better lighting performance with only a fraction of the energy consumption of the traditional fluorescent tube lights. LED tube is the newest product line in the...

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Choosing Energy Efficient Doors

There has been growing demand for energy efficient doors. Energy efficient doors offer many benefits for the environment and your pocket. Because Energy efficient doors reduce the amount of energy you...

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Green Home Helps To Save Money and Environment

Green Home in India is not a new concept or a new thing to real estate in India. Today green home means a home or apartment project where builder or architect adopts green principles such as rainwater...

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How To Make Your Windows Energy Efficient

Windows have to interact with the changing weather conditions, so weatherizing of windows is very important in order to make them energy efficient. You can make your windows energy efficient by...

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Simple Ways To Save Environment

Although the term “Environment” is vast and varied, the basic modeling is combined by the physical environment and the biological life forms. Thanks to us humans and our never ending demands, the...

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Energy Efficient Tips to Stay Cool this Summer

One of the biggest consumers of energy in India is its house hold sector and there has phenomenal expansion in energy consumption of the Indian household sector during the last decade. According to BEE...

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Tips To Prepare Your Home For Summer

Winter this year has been colder and longer than usual but we have a feeling that summer is soon going to be back with a vengeance. Although we do not have much influence over the weather we can at...

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Summer Upholstery for Your Home

Summer is approaching, which leaves us to complete an array of tasks and stuffs to be upgraded. It’s time to skip the outdoor chores and activities and lounge inside the home. In order to maintain a...

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Tips to Keep Your Kitchen Cool in This Summer

An important part of a household is the kitchen. It is a place where a lot of heat and steam is generated due to the cooking process. During summer, performing the daily chores in a kitchen becomes...

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Easy and Efficient Way to Use Solar Energy for Household Use

   Solar power is the mother of all the forms of energy on earth and there are number of ways in which you can use solar power in your home. The sun energy can be converted into the electrical energy...

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Guide to Choose Energy Saving Lights for Your Home

Every apartment in India uses about 6% or more of its electricity to lighting. There are various forms of lighting devices ranging from fluorescent light bulbs to halogen and LED lights which consume a...

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Tips for Green Living in Your Apartment

Most of us crave to re-model our properties in India with different concepts. Few of us would like to concentrate on interior design while few others would like to convert the apartment into a healthy...

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Earth Day Activities for Kids

Since the Earth day is universally celebrated to define the importance of environmental aspects, most of us must be thinking of various activities for the kids on this occasion. But first, we all need...

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Now generate solar energy from rooftops

With the swift advancement of technology, the latest invention is creating solar energy from terrace tops. This is one of the best ideas of space utilisation wherein the terrace of residential and...

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Solar Home Solutions

The ever increasing energy cost is pushing mankind in trouble. It is the time to go “Solar” and live a sustained life along with vast environmental benefits. Solar energy is massively distributed...

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Star couple Nagarjuna and Amala opt for Solar Power

The celebrity couple Nagarjuna and Amala opt for Solar power to meet their domestic energy requirements. Acute power shortage and a change in Andhra Pradesh’s Solar policy prompted them to use Solar...

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How to Generate Electricity at Your Home?

The rapidly depleting fuels and energy sources are creating need of alternate power solutions. Moreover, electricity bills will continue to get more expensive over time. The biggest challenge lies in...

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Off-grid Solar Power Generator systems ideal for villas

Our country is currently facing a huge power crisis with the energy deficit currently peaking almost 15%. On top of this deficit, our energy needs are rising 10% per year, resulting in a huge gap...

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How efficient is your solar energy system?

With the increase in demand and cost of energy, Solar energy is the best alternative to other sources of energy. It is the most sustainable source of energy. Solar energy is renewable,...

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10 Tips to save cooking gas

How to save LPG in kitchen? Liquefied Petroleum Gas(LPG) is a popular cooking gas used for cooking purpose at home. The rising prices of cooking gas or LPG have been hurting the economics of every...

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Benefits of housing societies adopting energy efficient methods

Many housing societies are adopting energy efficient methods to save electricity. Growing awareness about the pitfalls of using conventional energy sources has made housing societies adopt various...

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Fiber Optic Solar lighting: How to bring natural sunlight into a building?

Fiber optic is used not only for communications, Fiber optic based solar lighting solution transmits the light from a source through the fiber to a remote location.Many companies are now producing...

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10 Ways you can save energy smartly

Modern lifestyle has made us take certain things for granted. The use of power and energy is one such. Saving energy and electricity could mean living a greener life. Here are the top ten ways which...

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Tips to make your home an energy-efficient home

Living in an energy efficient home is not just for the environment, but good for our pockets too. There is an increasing dependence today on solar power, rainwater harvesting and several other...

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Saving energy in the kitchen: Gas stove vs Induction cooker

Are you pondering over the ideal option for a cooking system for your kitchen? Your kitchen may be greatly designed by your sense of aesthetics, but an energy-efficient, cost effective and easy to...

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Local Warming MIT: The Future of Heating Buildings

Traditional warming systems and solutions may soon be a thing of the past as scientists are working on a smarter alternative known as local warming system. The newly developed system is likely to...

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Bijli Ghar to electrify villages in remote areas

India with all its financial and economic success has been unable to bridge the existing gap between the urban and rural India. Rural India and interiors regions in the heartland of India still...

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Lumens Vs Watts: What to check when buying a light bulb for your home?

Everything we do revolves around energy consciousness and green living, so when lighting up your house, that attitude should be reflected which in turn is beneficial to you as well as the environment....

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How to decorate home using versatile LED strip lighting?

LED lighting is increasingly popular in the domestic market, with a number of benefits afforded to people who want to jazz up their home with a new form of illumination. Here is a look at why this type...

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