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Here’s an interesting concept. Gather information about the true cost of energy consumption of the home you intend to purchase “before” you buy it. Now that’s a concept! Can you think of any other purchase you’ll make where information before the cash register rings might “steer” you away from buying? How about owning an automobile? Continue reading Residential Energy Rating System…Lemons into Lemon-Aide? October 20th, 2009 | Category: Building Green, energy, Energy Efficiency, Home Inspection, Sustainability |
Leave a comment | Here’s what I took away: Energy efficiency helps the carbon reduction cause. But the carbon reduction cause doesn’t do much for efficiency. Continue reading Efficiency left out of cap and trade Too poor to attend school anymore William Kamkwamba went to a US-sponsored library to try to keep up on his learning. There the Malawian boy found diagrams for building windmills and painstakingly followed the directions to bring electricity and water to his famine-stricken village. He scavenged for junk and found old bike parts, pipes and fans to make it work. His fellow villagers thought Continue reading Energy Head Tilters for this Week October 10th, 2009 | Tags: economy, Elisa Wood, Innovation, Lisa Cohn | Category: energy |
3 comments | Heating water accounts for up to 30 percent of the average home’s energy budget. Some makers of gas-fired tankless water heaters claim their products can cut your energy costs up to half over regular storage heaters. So is it time to switch? Continue reading Tankless Water Heaters- Efficient but Not Necessarily Economical Energy Savings In today’s struggling economy are the dollars our representatives voted to spend on the recovery being spent wisely? Do our leaders fully understand the philosophical shift that must take place in America if we are to truly shift our dependence on foreign oil? Will the waste continue? Dr. Dan Chiras is the Continue reading Economic Restoration or Do We Need More? |
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