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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - Consider everything from energy use to the ideal lighting conditions in your home before selecting permanent or free-standing lamps.
- The key is to understand how to ventilate intelligently to improve health, save on energy, reduce repair bills, and health care costs.
- John Bower's presentation at the Energy Efficient Building Association, Excellence in Housing Conference, Dallas Texas, February 1994.
- Energy-efficient glass with a low-E coating is one of several types of insulated glass.
- Insulations are made from different materials. Many people are concerned about the possible negative health effects.
- One of the newest lamp innovations is the LED (light emitting diode) lamp, also called a diode array bulb.
- LEED homes offer many benefits to home owners, including lower energy and water bills; reduced greenhouse gas emissions; increased comfort, less exposure to indoor pollutants such as mold, mildew and other indoor toxins, and lower maintenance costs.
- 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.
- Low-emissivity (Low-E) coatings on glazing or glass control heat transfer through windows with insulated glazing. Windows manufactured with low-E coatings typically cost about 10%–15% more than regular windows, but they reduce energy loss by as much as 30%–50%.
- Perhaps the greatest challenge to promoting energy efficiency is that you can’t see it.
- Measuring glass surfaces using infrared (IR) thermometers helps ensure higher performance windows.
- I have been an energy management consultant since 1974. Before suggesting that someone buy an energy-saving gadget, I evaluate that gadget myself. In this article, I describe some of my personal energy-saving gadget experiences.
- The National Association of Home Builders recently launched the NAHB National Green Building Program, an education, verification and certification program that will allow builders anywhere to build green homes.
- 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.
- One of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to reduce energy use at home is to ensure that your home is properly insulated.
- Find out if these types of energy-efficient water heaters are right for your home.
- CR also explains personal carbon footprints; the dark side of compact fluorescent light bulbs.
- According to DOE’s Building America program data, typical, residential ductwork efficiency is about 67%. That means that if you install a 90% efficient furnace, your system efficiency would be just over 60%. Another way to look at this is that ducts lose 25–40% of the energy that moves through them. Just from a practical standpoint it makes sense to improve the delivery system. Shorter, straighter, better engineered and installed ductwork will improve delivery efficiency.
- The net cost of owning a green home can be comparable to that of owning a conventional home – sometimes even less.
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