Green Businesses in the New River Valley of Virginia
Compiled by L. David Roper
06-Apr-2016
Go Green New River Valley
Our mission is to promote a Green Business Program for businesses in the New River Valley, including modified programs addressing industry specific green initiatives for the various businesses in the Valley.
Renewable Energy Electric Vehicle Association
The Renewable Energy and Electric Vehicle Association (REEVA) is a Do-It-Yourself club to help members do solar/wind installations and build electric vehicles at project homes, thus cutting the cost by removing labor costs.
- If you want to make your home or business more energy efficient, the first thing you should do is an energy audit. (See first item below.)
- If weatherproofing and/or insulation improvement is indicated by the energy audit, you should install the recommended items.
- If you do not already have a high-efficiency heat pump (SEER>15), you should consider installing an earth-source heat pump.
- If you have a high-efficiency heat pump or an earth-source heat pump and an old hot-water heater, you should consider installing a tankless water heater or a solar-hot-water system.
- If you already have all the items above, you should consider installing a photovoltaic system.
- If you live in a place where the wind speed at <100 feet above the ground is often >15 mph, consider installing a small wind turbine to generate electricity.
- Whereever you live in whatever structure, buy local organic food or grow organic food as much as possible.
- If you are building a new house or business building, make it as energy efficient as possible.
- When you invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy, you are paying not only for durable reliable materials and equipment but also for future energy, which will be much more expensive than now.
- If you have funds that you want to invest in companies that make green infrastructure for homes or businesses, invest it in the green infrastructure for your home or business, rather than in the stock market for those companies, where it will may go to increasing the income of the executives. For other green investments, see below.
(Businesses are listed in alphabetical order)
Contents: Energy Audit | Energy Education | Federal Tax Credits | Energy-Star Appliances | Toilets | Green Lighting | Green Builders | Green Architects | Spray-Foam Insulation | Windows Radiant-Energy Barriers | Ground-Source Heat Pump | Tankless Water Heaters | Solar Hot Water | Solar Electricity | Small Wind Energy | Local Food | Organic Gardening | Green Landscaping | Composting | Reuse | Green Pest Control | Green Purchasing | Green Building Standards | Green Investment | References
Energy Education
Green Lighting
Green-Homes Builders
Green Architects
Windows Radiant-Energy Barriers
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When you invest in renewable energy, you are paying not only for durable reliable materials and equipment but also for future energy, which will be much more expensive than now.
Solar Electricity (Photovoltaic, PV) (Net Metering)
When you invest in renewable energy, you are paying not only for durable reliable materials and equipment but also for future energy, which will be much more expensive than now.
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When you invest in renewable energy, you are paying not only for durable reliable materials and equipment but also for future energy, which will be much more expensive than now.
Green Landscaping
Reuse
Green Pest Control
Green Purchasing
- Good Guide: GoodGuide provides the world's largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of the products in your home. You can make a list of your preferred products to use when shopping.
- Annie Kay's
- Eats
Green-Homes Building Standards
- Wilderhill Clean Energy Index
- A Home Power Magazine study showed that, with reasonable assumptions, investing in green infrastructure for your home and business can return as much or more money savings as investing in the stock market earned over the last twenty years. And if enough information were available to calculate the money saved by not dumping carbon into the atmosphere, the energy-efficient investment would be even more favorable. This is a good time for U.S. citizens to buy products from companies to make their homes and businesses more energy efficient instead of buying stock in companies, which may go into increasing the salaries of executives. Make companies earn the money they receive from you by actually creating products you need for energy efficiency.
References
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