SportsArt: Woodinville, WA

I recently visited the SportsArt headquarters in Woodinville, WA. I was pumped to see and use some of the grid-tied electricity-generating exercise equipment they offer. It is very cool because they are the only company manufacturing this kind of equipment. First, I...

Green Hotel Practices: A Step Further

  Green hotel practices are becoming the norm these days. This is great. In fact, I was recently at a hotel in Northwest Washington and had a “Go Green” card on my bed. It explained that in an effort to institute green hotel practices and in the name of...

Movement and Learning

Read and Ride Programs Understand the Connection Between Movement and Learning Science is cool! Science has offered us so many exciting discoveries throughout the history of the world. Some of the latest science shows that movement and learning have a pretty cool...
Generate Electricity in a New Way

Generate Electricity in a New Way

How much is a watt? In grade school we all learned measurements of capacity like how many quarts are in a gallon. In my classroom, we got our empty containers to compare cups and pints and quarts and gallons.  We had visual aids that guide our understanding of the...

Slowly, but surely. Change is happening.

Dar Williams wrote a great article back in 2010 about energy generating gyms. She lamented how slow progress was in making them mainstream. Back in 2008, she had assumed they were right around the corner. But they still hadn’t really taken off, and her final...