Go Green
A Blog by WARM Training Center
A Blog by WARM Training Center
The Go Green Blog is a free green consulting blog offered by WARM Training Center. We welcome questions from you regarding energy efficiency, green building, and any other relevant questions you might have for us.
May 8th
Don’t miss this great event featuring all the greatest things happening on the front edge of energy at Mission Zero Fest. We need volunteers to help with green home tours, info tables, working on zero waste for the event, etc. www.missionzerofest.org
This is the second year this great event has happened, and now there’s food and amazing music! WARM’s happy to be a part of it – and you should be too!
Sign up to help for a few hours:
Apr 17th
Is this past winter’s warmth indicative of climate change? Well, yes and no. Check out this great article looking at the data behind the recent heat shift. Their overall conclusion: the amount of variation is similar to past weather patterns, but the overall temperatures within those variations are higher than usual. So the heat wave itself is not so shocking as it might seem — but it does appear warmer than previously and indicates that we might see more of these extreme variations than we used to.
The first thing to remember is that weather is very different from climate. Weather is the local, current variation that happens, whereas climate is the large overall pattern and trend for an area. Weather can vary widely and dramatically without that meaning anything about the overall climate of an area. In other words, one REALLY cold month, doesn’t mean the weather is changing. We’ve talked about this a bit before during the Tornado spat last year.
When we experience a week of really strange weather, that alone doesn’t tell us anything about potential climate shifts. However, if the climate were under threat of shifting, we would see more extreme, varied and unpredictable weather patterns more frequently. One weird weather event doesn’t tell us much, but many weird weather events is definitely suggestive of impending climate shifts
Apr 16th
WARM is offering three exciting internships right now, focusing on Green Homes, Energy Data Analysis, and Sustainability Planning. Come work with a great group of people on groundbreaking programs that are making the world a better place.
Apr 16th
Come work for WARM’s Detroit Youth Energy Squad, which provides job skills to youth while improving the energy use of homes in the community. Details are here.
Apr 13th
The News reports on the BetterBuildings for Michigan program which WARM co-directs as part of the Southeast Michigan Regional Energy Office.