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Home Energy Audits: Save Money and Conserve Energy

Tips to save money on your energy bills by getting home energy audits. A home energy audit can be performed for free by a utility company or by a trained, licensed technician for a fee. A technician will walk through your new or older home and help you determine the best way to make your home energy tight.

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Simple Steps to Create a Zero-Carbon Home | Video

Homeowners are taking steps to live greener lives and make their homes more environmentally friendly. Zero-carbon homes are a way to achieve just that.

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Window Repair or Window Replacement? How to Decide

Wondering if you should repair or replace your windows? Here’s a checklist to see which option is right for your situation.

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Interior Window Inserts Offer Cost-Effective Comfort and Energy Savings

Window inserts reduce energy cost, improve comfort and reduce noise at a fraction of the cost of replacement windows and are completely invisible!

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DIY Insulation Tips for Year-round Energy Savings

Much of the energy spent on home heating and cooling is wasted by poor insulation. Find out how recycled plastic products can help you improve home energy efficiency with proper insulation and sealing.

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Single Best Way to Cut Electricity Costs: Sense Home Energy Monitor

Have you ever opened a surprisingly large electric bill and wondered where all that electricity is going? If so, you might have wished you had just a little bit more info to help you figure it all out!  The Sense Home Energy Monitor does just that – and is the single best way we’ve found …

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Home Insulation: Green Armor Against High Energy Costs

Insulating and sealing are affordable, effective projects for your green home. Here are our top tips for ensuring year-round energy efficiency.

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Green Strategies for Heating, Cooling & Comfort

ith good planning and attention to basic maintenance, the best home comfort can also be the most efficient. Here’s how to get both!

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Green Power: Best Energy Sources for Your Home

Your home’s energy efficiency is influenced by the fuel sources that power everyday living, Find out the best energy sources for optimum energy savings.

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Exterior Remodeling: Green Ideas to Protect Your Home From the Elements

Energy-saving solutions begins with eco-friendly green remodeling on the outside of your home, which protects the structure from the elements

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Never Change a Bulb Again with Integrated LED Light Fixtures

It can be a total hassle when a light bulb burns out in a hard-to-reach lighting fixture in your home. But now, thanks to long-lasting LED lights, you can forget what it’s like to change a bulb. LED technology is now being integrated right into light fixtures, so you’ll never have to install or change a bulb in those fixtures again – because there isn’t even a bulb to change!

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Estimating Utility Costs for a New Home

Learn how to estimate utility costs for a new home.  Find out how to avoid surprises and identify inefficiencies before you buy.

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Going Solar? This DIY Option Can Cut Costs by Half

If you’ve considered adding a solar energy system to your home, you’re in good company. Fueled by unprecedented tax credits, rebates, discounts and energy credits, this smart improvement makes perfect sense and has never been more popular.  But while adding a solar system to tap the free and unlimited energy of the sun, the system of …

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10 No-Cost Tips for Saving Energy

Get low-cost to n- cost tips for saving energy and learn how to stop the biggest energy leaks with replacement windows.

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Green Power Plan: Combine Standard and Alternative Energy Sources

Alternative energy sources have the potential to make big contributions to home comfort and overall savings, but that doesn’t mean you have to abandon traditional energy sources like electric, gas and oil. A combination of standard and alternative sources is becoming a common solution.

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Does Solar Energy Make Sense for Your Home? 3 Things to Know!

Solar energy is hot right now; in fact, because the cost to install solar has dropped by over 70 percent since 2010, more than 1 million U.S. homes are currently being powered by the sun (compared to only 30,000 homes in 2006). However, our country still has a long way to go before reaching its …

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Choices for Energy Efficient Windows

Find out what to look for when you are shopping efficient windows. The latest in efficient window designs provide easy window cleaning, low maintenance and glazing options to suit every home and residential climate.

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Energy Saving Ideas and Tips — Each Less Than $50

Find out five easy energy saving home improvements that are affordable energy savers. Learn how insulation, sealants and weather-stripping, and water heater blankets can be big energy savers, and how to avoid the hype associated with big-ticket home improvements that offer major energy savings claims.

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10 Tips for Successful Window Replacement

Find out how to prepare your home for window shades replacement and ensure efficient installation by your replacement window contractor with these ten tips.

10 Tips for Successful Window ReplacementRead More

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5 Energy-Saving Strategies Under $50 | Video

Green home improvements can be quite pricey (solar panels come to mind) but they don’t necessarily have to cost a bundle. Here are 5 ways to save energy for under $50 each — try them out and watch your utility bills shrink. 1. Install Low-cost Lighting Light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs have emerged as the most …

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3 Home Heating Mistakes That Increase Your Energy Bills

As the days get shorter and temperatures start to sink, most households find their home heating bills starting to run out of control. Even worse, sometimes it feels like your house just stays cold no matter how high you crank the heat! If this sounds like your life, it’s time to take some action to …

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How to Get Your Home Ready for Winter | 10 Easy Tips

With frost settling on pumpkins, porches and lawns, now is the right time to think about getting your home ready for the winter ahead. Making your house winter-ready is neither difficult nor time consuming. Spending some time prepping your house can mean savings and convenience that will last all winter long. 1. WARD OFF WINTER …

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Positive Energy Home: Turning Your Home into an Energy Power Plant

Have you ever wished that your inefficient home could be a positive energy power plant, with no energy bills and no carbon footprint – a home that could be part of the solution to the climate crisis?  I had this idea several years ago, and my family and I set out on a journey to renovate …

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Weatherize Your Home for Energy Efficiency

Tips to make energy-efficient upgrades in your home to save money and energy. You can weatherize your home to bring down energy costs with energy-efficient upgrades.

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