Green is the new thing. Not only does going green save the planet, but it saves you money. As a business, saving money is very important whether it’s a small or large business. Many are unsure of how to go green, but why not go green and become certified at being a green company? Having a certification has it’s many benefits, with one being that it can pull more customer basis in because they see you are doing your part to being green and have a knowledgeable basis on it. Not only will it pull more clientele your way, but the savings you will have will be tremendous because you took that extra step to find out what all you needed to do to be green as a whole. Yes, every little bit helps to becoming green, but to save the big bucks sometimes means to take that extra step. Wouldn’t you agree?

Keep an eye out for our weekly “Collection of Green”, a helpful list of links to different topics. We will provide the latest updates, news, and tips to provide you with all you need to know about Green Energy, and how it can even save you money.

How to Be Green Certified:

How to become a Certified Green Business. Tips and advice on how to become a certified green business right before your eyes.

Green Seal Certified. One of the many ways to be Green certified, and the Green Seal Certification is one of the many.

Creating a Competitive Advantage for Your Business. Provides the key benefits to becoming green certified. Also contains the know how on how to be green certified from small, medium, to large companies.

USGBC Green Certified. Want to be the best informed with being green certified? United States Green Building Council, the governments form to being green certified is the way to go.

Green Eco Certified. Includes steps, tips, and benefits to becoming economy green certified for you and your business as a whole.

Keeping a carbon footprint in a green business or in general is in your best nature. If you demonstrate commitment to being green, having a green car will show just that. In an article from Management-Issues he talks about demonstrating commitment by saying, “I have heard repeated anecdotes of Managing Directors announcing a new low carbon direction for the business, then showing up the next day in a brand new gas guzzling company car. They then wonder why their staff get cynical.” If you want to go in a green direction, your car should be included because it won’t only show your commitment but save you tons of money in gas. These cars are even better for our environment by producing less CO2 and other pollution into our air. This is why we are providing you a list of green links that provide you with the best green automobiles so you can get a better fuel efficient and economic car for personal or company usage.

Keep an eye out for our weekly “Collection of Green”, a helpful list of links to different topics. We will provide the latest updates, news, and tips to provide you with all you need to know about Green Energy, and how it can even save you money.?

Green Automobiles:

The 7 Most Affordable Fuel Efficient Cars of 2010. These 7 cars run around 30 mpg and cost less than $20,000. Can’t beat that.

2010 Best Green Cars. Descriptions and all about which cars are greenest from cars, trucks, to minivans.

Green Car of the Year Finalists: Hybrid, Electric, and Gas Models. Top 5 Green Cars of 2011. This article even mentions the new electric Nissan Leaf.

Saving money is one of the first things that comes to mind when thinking about how green will be beneficial to you. Well we all know more importantly, from a business perspective it is all about making and saving that money then letting it go down the drain. Green has been proven time and time again to improve profit and sales in your company and many have the potential to receive tax incentives to get money back from going green.This is why we found several links all about about saving money for your business by going green.

Keep an eye out for our weekly “Collection of Green”, a helpful list of links to different topics. We will provide the latest updates, news, and tips to provide you with all you need to know about Green Energy, and how it can even save you money.

How to Make your Business a Green One

Green at Work: Green Your Business in 4 Steps. Provides the know how to get started with converting your company to green.

25 Ways to Green Your Business and Make Money. The title speaks for itself, and we know the words “Make Money” stand out to you like they do to us.

How Your Small Business Can Become A Green Business. Gives small tips for small businesses on going green from office supplies to green programs.

Guide to Making Your Company More Green. This one tells you how going green is going to save you money and become beneficial and even gives some interesting tactics to enforce upon.

As many of you already know from our previous blog that we moved locations from 1201 N. Shoreline Blvd to 10201 South Padre Island Drive. We gave you some pictures of our old office, but since we are starting off fresh and new, we are giving you a virtual tour instead. We are quite proud of our new office because we went from leaky ceilings and a small office to a much more spacious office with a window and no leaky ceiling. Hope you enjoy the video!

CEO of 3eWerks, Byron Loftin, offers us another Tip for Going Green at home or business. Did you know that most households pay thousands of dollars a year for electricity? The Energy Detective (TED) can easily help you save 10-20 percent on your electric bill – hundreds of dollars – and the more you save, the more you help your neighbors, the community, and protect our environment. How could you turn down this option when all it does is help you save money. The Energy Detective tells you how many kilowatts are being used as well as money. Thus, if you walk by and notice that your kilowatts are skyrocketing upward, you can find the problem and turn the lights out!

Keep an eye out for more “Tips on Going Green” videos in the future. Pass the tip on to friends and family! Every bit of energy conserved can save you green (money that is) and the world.

Check out our 3eWerks YouTube page to find more helpful videos to go green!

Since our product of the month is pertaining to wind energy, we thought it would be great to carry out the custom and talk about it in our Collection of Green links this week. Just like solar energy, wind energy is something that has been around for centuries, but is just starting to become really well-known to us currently. People have used wind as a reliable source for many alternatives to energy. One example of this could be about how ships and boats were and are still being powered to travel on the open seas by sails and the wind propelling them. This is very much something sailors still abide by today in many circumstances. Another great example of wind energy is using wind mills to power and turn water for crops for farmers. Wind is a great source of energy that is being used now a days to power electricity at our homes and businesses to cut our energy bills down tremendously. We all know saving money is important and wind energy is the way to go if you want to do just that!

Wind Energy

Thinking Small, and Still Smaller, on Wind Power. Energy innovators are working around the clock to produce even smaller wind turbines.

Where Wind Could Become the Primary Source of Power. Ireland plans to have 42% of their power be based upon wind by 2020. How far along will the U.S. be?

Using Wind To Generate Electricity And Other Kinds Of Power. Talks about the history before and after the creation of wind turbines. Much like I said before about how wind has been a source of energy for a long period of time.

The case for a new design of a vertical-axis wind turbine. New design ideas for Vertical Axis Wind Turbines. Which one do you like better, the one in the article or the ones we have now?

There are many ways to become more energy efficient in your home or business, but one of the most useful of them all is by utilizing something we have in our windy city, wind turbines.  Not just any turbine though, a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine, or in our terms a “VAWT.” We all know that being close to the coast has given us plenty of wind to come our way. Just look at all the many, large wind turbine farms in towns closest to Corpus Christi.

Why choose a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine?

Vertical Axis Wind Turbine’s are installed differently than the wind turbine’s you are use to seeing. There configuration is perpendicular to the ground. These vertical axis wind turbines from Urban Green Energy have many great advantages to them over the everyday wind turbines.

Many owners of wind turbines fear the wind changing the direction, therefore not propelling the turbine the correct way it should go to get the use out of it to propel it. The VAWT’s are unaffected by this problem, and can even be installed onto rooftops of homes or businesses. These turbines are extremely quiet and do not produce a lot of noise like many horizontal wind turbines do. Lastly, I would have to say these products are very simple to be installed for you and easily maintained.

There are four different types of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine’s that we sell, each with their own uniqueness embedded within them. They consist of Eddy, Eddy GT, UGE-4K, and Sanya. For more information on each turbine, be sure to click on them individually so you can pick and choose which one fits your needs best. Each turbine has received third-party certification for their power curves, noise levels, vibration levels, and safety.