A little something I threw together over the weekend. Revisited some work for a previous client as I wanted to breathe new life into the mobile app design phase.

Includes:

1. Default App Start page
2. Image Search
3. Event Listings, Detail Landing page and Other State Changes
4. Offers and Related State Changes
5. Mobile Checkout State Changes

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Green Gurus is a California limited liability company (LLC) founded by Jedi Wright. Past and present team members have included Brent Heyning, Douglas Reeser, Dr. Ryan Wartena, Elizabeth Marley, Evonne Heyning, Shena Turlington.

If you are interested in joining our team, we’d love to hear from you. Please email us with a resume in doc or html format, if you’re interested, along with a little blurb about what makes you tick and what you aspire to do or be, and how you see yourself working with us (and vice versa).

With that in mind, we’ve laid out some of those core services as our own:

• Architectural Design
• E-commerce Solutions
• Event Planning & Production
• Industrial Design
• Information Architecture
• Installation Art
• Lighting Design
• Product Design
• Stage Design

If you’re looking for new and fresh insight on how to design and build your next stage, environment, product, or other architectural needs, let us know and we’ll be happy to discuss your project’s needs.

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See more about us here.

Happy Holidays!

UPDATE 6/18/11: We’ve continued to incubate for awhile now, but have just begun stroking the ashes into higher flames. A clearer path forward is coming into focus.

Guess how much electricity your computer uses and then take a look at the tag and see what the maximum power consumption is.

Power is measured in Watts, W (Watts, Volts and Amperes are always capitalized since they are named after people).  Sometimes, on battery-powered devices, the power is not stated, but the current (in Amperes or Amps) and the potential (in Volts) will be.  In this case, you multiply the current (in Amperes or Amps) with the potential to get the maximum amount of instantaneous power your device uses (in Watts).  Typically, cell phones use 3 to 5 Watts and laptops use 35 to 50 Watts.  Coffee makers are typically 900 Watts.  Wow.

When you use power for a duration of time, you can determine how much energy has been used.  If you use your cell phone at a power level of 5 Watts for 1 hour then you have used 5 Watthours (Wh) of energy.  A battery’s capacity is how much energy it holds.

Take a quick gander and count up the amount of power you are using right now.  You may have to catch the refridgerator if its running.  You can also split that up between your housemates.  Honestly, it will take some real effort to determine how much power you use at any moment, there is a lot of power that was put into making the products in front of you.  This is okay, as long as we are aware that our power and energy usage and continue to clarify where it comes from and educate our selves to the direct and embedded energies that fuel our lifes.

Right now, my direct power use is about 100 Watts (two computers and a cell phone) and its daytime so I don’t need to worry about lighting and the alarm clock by the bed is on but I don’t see it.  I’m sure Im not counting everything, but I’m getting closer.

In 1998 the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology issued its vision for each person to live under 2000-Watts, the current average in the United States is 12,000 Watts.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Watt_society

There is a new design paradigm emerging, one that replaced the brute-force method of getting it done.  In the past, adding more power or energy meant getting more functionality (more gas give more speed).  Now, the elegant design challenge is to get more functionality with less energy (go farther with a hybrid-electric car with regeneative charging from breaking).  Where does this lead?  All the functionality with no to minimal energy.  This is beauty.

And, this is enegy awareness and it spreads.  Electrical power is political power.  Know your power and energy.

She’ll be speaking on the “It’s Not Easy Being Green” panel:

Room 12AB
Saturday, March 15th
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm

Here’s the panel description:

“Music business initiatives in the environmental field are gaining traction, most notably in the touring and recording fields. Great numbers of initiatives and solutions are offered, more than any one company can process. How does one choose which efforts to undertake?”

She’ll be joining Kelly Cox (Integrated Mktg, NRDC) and Neal Turley (Ringmaster, Who Is Guy Grand), who’ll be moderating the panel.

If you’re in the area or are already planning to go, be sure to check it out and say hi if you can.

Wish her luck!

As our resident, solar pro, Dr. Ryan Wartena is naturally the most qualified to address this. Here is his response:

“Single, multi-crystalline and amorphous Silicon (a-Si) photovoltaics (PV = solar cell) will all have lifetimes over twenty years, some say the lifetimes are beyond 80 years. The most expensive is single crystal Si (and multi-junction PV) and multi-crystalline Silicon is less expensive and amorphous Silicon is even less expensive. The amount of power they produce is greatest for single crystal Silicon (and multi-junction PV) and multi-crystalline Silicon produces less power and amorphous Silicon even less power on a per area basis. Amorphous Silicon produces about 5 Watts/square foot.

Power has the units of ‘Watts’, power for a duration of time is energy and has the units of Watts x hour or Wh (a kWh is 1000 Watthours or Wh).

Installed costs for all types of PV is ~$5 to $8/Watt, so know how much power you and your application wants. The goal for next generation PV is to get the production cost down to $1/Watt.

Installation costs and racking have often been referred to as the obstacle to making the project economically beneficial because additional hardware is required for mounting and a professional electrical contractor should do the installation. This obstacle may be overcome by next generation PV technologies which will result in lower costs of PV. Sometimes, economics are based on capital costs ( i.e., $/W installed), but this is misleading because vision shows that the payback times on PV can be 1 to 2 years and the economics should be based on what the utility company charges per kWh (between 7 and 23 cents per kWh) and what the vision-based cost of point-of-generation PV is (between 15 and 25 cents per kWh).

Outline:
0. Learn about the different types of PV.
1. Figure out how much power you need.
2. Figure out how much space you have to generate that power.
3. Use 1 and 2 to estimate the costs and to help determine the type of PV.
4. Contact us for more information.

Hopefully this is an adequate overview for those interested in such information. Let us know whether you think it addresses the question from above adequately or not.

We were hired by Hour One productions to come in and consult for Mario and his family for a green home makeover and today we got to get down with him, his family, Ed and his daughter and really have some fun with each other while showing them some quick and easy (along with a few major technical points concerning electric use and meter reading, which the kids just loved!), steps to go green as a family.

Brent, Elizabeth, Ryan, Shena, and I rolled out in her biodiesel Jeep Liberty from our base of operations at the Sugar Shack (an intentional urban community house going green too), arriving on site at 1pm sharp. Our team met the complete production team and Van Peebles family, then completed our assessment of the house, prior to shooting everyone’s first scenes.

The day went by very quickly as everyone had a lot of fun. Elizabeth and Shena shot some scenes with the boys, girls and Mario’s wife, while Brent and Ryan went through the electronics with the boys in their room, followed by a fun meter-reading session with them outside.

Then it was off to shoot our arrival scene with Ed, walking up the street with him and his daughter and our team. This was followed by our initial arrival into the house and meeting with Mario, then quickly dispersing off into our respective area’s of expertise throughout the house.

We shot some other various bits and pieces and were able to get nearly every one completed before the latest round of rough, west coast weather hit again.

And that was that: At a wee bit past 5pm, we packed up our gear, said our goodbyes and returned back to HQ for a homemade team dinner (along with our household’s weekly meeting). It was a great day of fun and learning for everyone involved and we look forward to the show airing on HDTV.

We’ll keep you posted on this as more details come our way, along with some promo clips, once the show launches.

Best of luck to Mario and family as they continue the greening of their beautiful home!

We were joined by a few others including Michael Moss (MossCadora), and some of Ryan and Elizabeth’s friends and colleagues including OneLove, Shiko and Cris Wagner. The gathering was held at the Living Green and ran from 7pm on.

I met several interesting people including Rony Alcalay of Hemptations, who sounds to be doing a great job with his hemp clothing line. Also in attendance were:

• Karen Feinberg, one of Living Green’s sales reps
• Andrew Mannle, senior editor at Arcwire
• Matt Diamond, president of Diamond Lane Entertainment
• Barent Roth, industrial design-principal at Grow-Design

-each and every one was a pleasure to speak with.

We look forward to attending many a Green Drinks in the coming weeks and months. Feel free to drop us a line if you’d like to meet up with any of us sometime.

I think the answer to both these questions is a very loud yes. Why? How about a question as answer: Why not?

The time is now, more than ever, to immerse yourself in the sustainability movement and expand your working knowledge as wide and deeply as you can. We here at Green Gurus are doing so every day and just can’t get enough. But maybe that’s a bit much for some right off the bat or you just like to take your time when learning new things and embracing new, emerging trends. That’s fine too.

But the bottom line is such that you might just have to at some point.

New and existing companies are embracing the triple bottom line (economic, environmental and social values) more and more. And in today’s marketplace, the old-school mindset (or paradigm) of having to “beat the competitors to market” still prevails for many – though we definitely see a future of greater love and support through even more ancient systems such as bartering of time, energy, resources, etc. rather than continuing to isolate and compartmentalize things from each other, all in the name of progress.

Supported by each other, we can do so much more than just progress; we can continue to evolve harmoniously with the world around us.

Anyway, in the meantime, why not start or continue expanding your knowledge of some area that interests you, be it organic and local grown food, fair trade products, sustainable building design, energy reduction, or whatever else it is that tickles your fancy? The skills you begin building or adding on now will not only serve to enhance your life, but that of your family’s, friend’s, co-workers, and neighbors.

If you’re not sure what interests you, feel free to let us know and we’ll work together to figure out.