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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - 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.
- An automatic standby generator can sense an outage and respond immediately. There are no extension cords to plug in, gas tanks to fill or switches to flip.
- 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.
- Home Energy Pros is an open social network for home performance and weatherization professionals.
- 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.
- Tips for laundering effectively.
- 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 homeowner gains a finished, insulated
basement, a healthy house, and an estimated
energy savings of a whopping 81%.
- The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) provides answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about LEED for Homes.
- Solar Photovoltaic or PV systems are highly reliable and need little maintenance.
- An insulation\'s resistance to heat flow is measured or rated in terms of its thermal resistance or R-value.
- The net cost of owning a green home can be comparable to that of owning a conventional home – sometimes even less.
- Big benefits for you and the planet.
- The basic building block of solar power explained.
- How does radiant heat, as opposed to air temperature, contribute to a proper
home comfort system?
- 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.
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