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Energy Efficient
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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - With clothes dryers being large energy users, choosing energy efficient models and implementing energy saving techniques can make a big difference in energy usage.
- Air conditioners use the most electricity of any home appliance. Here's how to reduce energy usage in cooling your home.
- Fluorescent lamps with improved performance and design features are now available.
- Sheep wool insulation has an R-value of approximately 3.5 to 3.8 per inch of material thickness 0.3 to 0.6 points higher than fiberglass, cellulose, or mineral wool.
- Typical duct systems lose 25 to 40 percent of the heating or cooling energy put out by the central furnace, heat pump, or air conditioner.
- How to make homes tight and ventilate right.
- An examination of 13 common myths reveals that they should be treated with some healthy skepticism.
- An energy mortgage increases a consumer’s buying power.
- In early 2007 Kevin and Kathy Christopherson set about building a home in Hanover, Wisconsin. This was no ordinary new home construction, though. Since Kathy has an acute chemical sensitivity, special precautions were necessary – precautions that presented some particularly challenging construction issues.
- The net cost of owning a green home can be comparable to that of owning a conventional home – sometimes even less.
- LEED for Homes is a green home certification system for assuring homes are designed and built to be energy- and resource-efficient and healthy for occupants.
- The majority of the balanced ventilation systems on the market are heat recovery ventilators (HRVs). Most HRVs consist of an insulated cabinet, a heat-recovery core, two fans, some ductwork, and a control. But not all HRVs are created equal.
- Greening a house that was built before we knew to care isn\'t impossible; here are 45 tips.
- Builders tend to focus more on energy and environmental conservation in their selection of green features; and may inadvertently contribute to poor indoor air quality (IAQ).
- Make your home more energy efficient and save.
- The harmonious interaction with nature is the guiding principle of the Building Biology approach to healthy home building.
- EPA\'s Energy Star program now addresses indoor air quality (IAQ). Here is a summary of requirements you can use to improve your home\'s IAQ.
- One of the most important ideas to emerge in recent years is the concept that a house is much more than an assemblage of materials. Instead, building scientists and researchers now view a house as an interactive system.
- Simple strategies that can help you lower your energy bills.
- Viewing the whole house as an integrated system helps.
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