Buy Local, Build Local: Beyond Small Business Saturday
Watch out, Black Friday and Cyber Monday: there’s a new shopping day in town. Small Business Saturday encourages shoppers to kick off the holiday season on Main Street because, “When we all shop small, it will be huge.” There’s real possibility behind this feel-good slogan: half of America’s workers e
Read MoreTeaching Energy Efficient Design in High School
Their assignment is to design an energy-efficient house for an imaginary client, but the Architectural Drafting students at Camden Hills Regional High School have plenty of questions about the houses their families really live in.
Read MoreWhy Nest is the next iPhone
Thermostats haven’t ever made the most fascinating dinner conversation – until now. The new Nest Learning Thermostat is beautiful, functional, and efficient, and since its developers founded their own company after working for Apple, it comes with the hipster-seal-of-approval. After designing iPods, iPhones, and their software, these guys
Read MoreIs Your Insulation Working?
Winter’s coming. Some of us have already seen a foot of snow, and there’s no denying it: heating season is here.
Read MoreUpgrade Your Refrigerator, Save Money Twice.
One of the biggest energy guzzlers in your home (besides, …
Read MoreTrees: Not Just for Beauty Anymore
On cold winter days, a ray of sun streaming into your house can be most welcome – a free source of heat. But what about in the summer, when those rays of sun and other, less-evident solar heat, seep into our already too-hot houses and become a costly nuisance?
Read MoreCash for Caulkers
The Home Star Retrofit Act of 2010 provides financial incentives for homeowners to increase the energy efficiency of their homes through substantive, effective improvements that save homeowners money, reduce our country’s carbon emissions, help to mitigate climate change, and put tens of thousands of Americans back to work. There are two levels to the program: here’s the long (Gold Star) and short (Silver Star) of it:
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