Guest Post: Five Eco-Friendly Ways to Keep Your Home Safe and Secure

Home security is a top priority for most families. Most traditional methods of security, while efficient, are in fact energy draining. From excess electricity to security cameras to old, non-energy efficient thermostats and water heaters, keeping your home safe and secure has become excessively expensive.

Green Traveler: New Orleans, Louisiana

May 8, 2014 to May 12, 2014 -- When I visited New Orleans recently for the first time I had no idea what to expect. Would the city still be reeling from Katrina? Is The Big Easy preparing for the next Katrina? Is there anything sustainable about a place with such a complicated and decadent history?

Green Traveler: Boca Raton, Florida Goes Electric

A recent visit to South Florida revealed that the region is going green and going electric. I was staying in Boca Raton for a family event and saw that the Palm Beach County Palm Tran public buses are environmentally friendly biodiesel-electric hybrids. The cleaner burning and more fuel efficient buses are made possible thanks to the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act and Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grants.

Guest Post: Ten Ways To Make Your Home More Eco-Friendly

Making eco-sensitive improvements in your home is both environmentally beneficial and monetarily beneficial, for these eco-friendly changes are more energy efficient, which means less money spent on utilities.

Here are 10 ways your home can be more eco-sensitive:

'Years of Living Dangerously' D.C. Premiere

If you haven't had the chance to see the new Showtime documentary series on climate change called "Years of Living Dangerously" I highly recommend calling your local cable provider and ordering the movie channel because this is one of the most important television events in history.

New Photos of D.C. Streetcars on H Street NE

It is spring in the nation's capital and while the cherry blossoms are sprouting, there is another new beginning that is taking place on hopping H Street NE -- the return of streetcars to the District for the first time in 50 years!

'Reject and Protect' March and Rally to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline

I was at the "Reject and Protect" march and rally last Saturday, April 26th in Washington, D.C. to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline. While I missed Neil Young, who spoke in the morning, I did get some photos and video of the march after they delivered a hand-painted tipi to President Obama at the American Indian Museum and then rallied on The National Mall where indigenous leaders from First Nations communities in Nebraska and Alberta along the pipeline route spoke and said prayers and then an indigenous rapper performed.