Supplementing your home's electricity usage with alternative energy sources is becoming easier and easier as the technology becomes more refined. While it has always been possible to "live off the grid" (power your home completely independent of the electric company), it's now more affordable than ever with a plethora of options. The simplest, of course, is harnessing the power of the sun. Once a far off futuristic dream, many people are not aware how easy it is to incorporate solar power into their homes today.

You don't have to be a company director or wealthy to create a healthy and eco-friendly workplace because small efforts can make all the difference.

Approximately 15% of each household's energy dollar goes to heat water. Using less hot water is one of the easiest ways to decrease your water heater's energy output and lower your bills.

More than ever before, people are aware of the need to ditch petroleum and coal as our main energy sources and turn to renewable sources. Now, thanks to Nanosolar's thin-film printing technology, solar is about to become much cheaper

Proposition 7, on the ballot in California this November, is an initiative that requires utility companies in the state to obtain 50% of their power from renewable resources by the year 2025. It sounds great, but many surprising groups, including environmental groups, oppose it.

Charge your cell phone or MP3 Player with free sunshine!

A solar power system on your home is a long term, low risk, high return investment.

Paul is a founder of Plug In America and an advocate for renewable energy.

So you want to install solar panels on your home. You're tired for forking over big bucks to the electric, gas and oil companies. You're starting to think that global warming from greenhouse gases (emitted by power plants and vehicles) may be more reality than sci fi movie plot. You're progressive, darn it, and proud of it. Whatever you're reasoning, you want to go solar. So where do you begin?

In California, lighting accounts for approximately 28% of home electricity use. As a nation, we spend about one-quarter of our electricity budget on lighting, or more than $37 billion annually.