Tag Archive for 'energy'

Install a power meter monitor yourself

Published on April 30, 2011 in News and Video. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Aaron Fechter, Orlando resident and inventor of the Rockafire Explosion has created a power meter monitor you can attach to the box outside your house. You then get to see how much your power bill would cost (I’m assuming there is some way to program the current rates).

The Blue Line PowerCost Monitor can save you money on electricity and save the Rock-afire Explosion from extinction! As the distributor of these monitors, I am using the proceeds of the sales of these monitors to finance the creation of new shows. Those who buy one of these from Creative Engineering, Inc. will also be given access to a private website showing lots of behind the scenes footage never before seen as well as other benefits. If saving money on electricity and saving the Rock-afire Explosion are worthy of your interest, please give me a call or send a note to me at aaron.fechter@gte.net

Encourage a shrunken ecological footprint with active feedback and games

Published on February 2, 2008 in Video. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

This video belongs to the InsterestingSouth event that was held in Sydney, Australia on November 22nd, 2007. There was a fun talk by Juan Mann, the Free Hugs guy, who was looking for a free place to live at the time, and some other talks by some wonderful creative and informed people.

The video I want to focus on is a talk give by Dan Hill, who is a design, web, media, city, travel, culture, architecture, music, creative type of fellow. He takes several ideas and mashes them up to make you think about a world where you measure your usage of resources, and the possible logical ends of those measurements. You really have to watch the video to get the meaning. Go on, click the link and come back, I’ll wait… It’s a little over 10 minutes, just to warn you.

They start playing “These boots are made for walking” because he’s passed his 10-minute time limit – each talk at InterestingSouth is between 3 and 10 minutes. The event is only one night, and doesn’t take very long, but I’m sure everyone walks away with a head full of new ideas, inspiration and questions.

I’m interested to see what people can think of once we collect 5 years worth of that data, or 25 years. After a century, the world will be in a completely different place. Who knows what our great grandchildren will have moved on to then?

Dan’s blog post about The Well-Tempered Personal Environment

See the ‘Facebook App’ slide from the talk