Green improvements to existing commercial properties are now available such as smart-power products that turns off the power to any plugged-in appliance not allowing them to consume so-called vampire power. Smart lighting controllers that monitors people as they move around a huge space that would otherwise have all the lights turned on, switch from cluster to cluster of lights as people move through zones defined and recognized by the sensor. LED lighting fixtures that can be powered by high-capacity solar panels are under development and will soon be on store shelves as more and more technology improves on them. Polymer batteries are still quite fragile and explosive but in the new iPhone, they hold a lot of potential for a replacement in solar panel power storage that still uses huge amounts of lead-acid batteries that contain lead which is quite poisonous. The charging process also produces explosive hydrogen gas which can be hazardous in itself.
Solar heating of homes and buildings have been in place for a long time and has been providing hot water or many homes and buildings for sometime so expect more from such innovative technologies that woul dmake our buildings greener and cleaner in the near future. Locally induced geo-thermal power production with the use of bore holes drilled a couple of hundred or so feet filled with a heat-exchangeing fluid that warms in the winter and cools in the summer. More and more green technologies are being developed that would surely improve life for tommorow and beyond.