Sierra Club Green Home

Experts from ClearEdge Power tout Fuel Cell Energy and an explanation of how it works.

Sierra Club Green Home’s Director of Sustainability, Jennifer Schwab, is interviewed on Channel 8, Las Vegas at Living Green Expo.

LOS ANGELES, (NBC) – It’s ‘Green Week’ on NBC, and Thursday will mark the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.

We’ve come a long way since we first started thinking about the impact our daily lives have on our planet, but environmentalists say Americans are still the most wasteful people in the world.

So as we look to the next 40 years, what’s next? Well, as NBC’s Jinah Kim reports, it just might be composting.

Chris Prelitz with New Leaf America take us through the basics of Solar Economics. Chris discusses solar electric panels and ways to save money on your utility bills.

The Wall Street Journal’s Gwendolyn Bounds walks us through an array of composters, demonstrates the pros and cons of each, and finally shows us how easy it is to get started! Take a few classes in composting 101 by watching this video.

Are your home energy bills out of hand? Does your house feel drafty even when you crank up the heat? Have you been dragging your feet on giving your home an energy-efficiency tune-up because you don’t know where to start? Watch this home energy audit video and then click to read how a home energy audit could start you on the path to having a green home.

Jennifer Schwab takes NY Times editor, Tom Zeller Jr., on a tour of “The Visionaire”, a luxury, green high-rise in Battery Park, NY. The Visionaire is an uber-swanky, über-green — 251-unit, 35-story luxury condominium complex in Lower Manhattan that opened for business last fall. The building features Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) panels; a blackwater recycling system; a vegetation-rich “green” rooftop; amongst a host of other green features. The building just received its LEED Platinum Certification.

Join Jennifer Schwab for a tour of Robert Sweet’s P-House. Robert has thoroughly thought through each component of his home to ensure it is as sustainable as possible.

Jennifer Schwab speaks with Scott Perry about the remodel of this 1,200 square foot home in Laurel Canyon.

Jennifer Schwab takes us on a tour of this 4,500 square foot home that boasts significant natural daylight, lots of sustainable materials and, of course, solar panels on the roof.