What’s To Like About Oak Ridge North: It’s Mostly Green and Lights Up with...
Since February, about half the residents of Oak Ridge North, a small city just across I-45 from the Woodlands, have been getting their electricity from chicken fat. The nation’s first entirely...
View ArticleHere Come the Franchise Biodiesel Plants
Sure, everybody’s excited about biodiesel because it’s new and rare. But just wait until smelly biodiesel production plants start littering the landscape like fast-food franchises. If you’ve got $1.95...
View ArticleAnd Just Imagine How Well They’d Do If There Were Jobs or Shopping Nearby!
Discovery at Spring Trails, Land Tejas’s gated and solar-panel-badged community north of Spring, is selling well, says Lisa Gray: “. . . only a few weeks after Discovery put itself on the market, and...
View ArticlePimp My FEMA Trailer
A few months after Ike, this tricked-out FEMA trailer rolls into Houston as . . . art?? Paul Villinski’s reworked 30-ft. Gulfstream “Cavalier” trailer, which took the artist 7 months to mod, will be...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Solar Energy Marketing Secrets — Revealed
“As soon as these things can be leased at a price that’s less than the cost of electricity they produce, it’ll be a home run. No one seems to offer long term leases that would last the lifetime of the...
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