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All window blinds have some insulative properties. However, purpose-built energy efficient blinds can truly help improve the heating and cooling efficiency of your home. Windows are where the greatest heat loss and heat gain occurs in the home. I’ve written previously here on EcoVillageGreen about how windows with a low solar heat gain coefficient will [...]
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After my last article on having a successful professional home energy audit, a reader sent me an e-mail wanting more details about what kind of money he could expect to save if he paid for an audit. Would it really be worth spending a few hundred dollars for it? It’s a good question, and one [...]
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With President Obama announcing thousands of dollars in tax credits for families to increase energy efficiency in their homes, there has never been a better time to perform a home energy audit. Conducting an audit could result you in energy savings equaling hundreds or even thousands of dollars over the medium and long term. Best [...]
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Ever hear of death by a thousand cuts? That’s what’s probably happening to your wallet without you realizing it. Day after day, you are being silently slashed from many different places in your house, wasting energy that oozes out of your house from little cracks and holes. Some of these ways you may know about–such [...]
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Driving to work has a lot of benefits. It can be a great time for listening to an audio book, enjoying the local countryside, and even relaxing if the stop and go of urban traffic doesn’t get to you. But when you aggregate this activity across millions of people trying to do the same thing [...]
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