Articles tagged “Energy Efficiency”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

What is the Insulation In Your Attic Made Of? By Seth Leitman IN Home & Garden Feb 3 2009 What Is The Insulation In Your Attic Made Of? The two most popular types of insulation that are in your homes are fiberglass and cellulose fiber. In my house, we use fiberglass batts. Fiberglass comes from glass that has been crushed and packed into these things called batts. + READ MORE

Insulation Tips to Save You Time, Energy and Money By Seth Leitman IN Home & Garden Jan 30 2009 If you have not re-insulated your home, it's probably long past time to insulate. The question is how do you do it. This guide should help you out. The best part of insulating is that you save money on energy costs and reduce emissions from power plants every year you live in that home! + READ MORE

Save Energy With Motion Sensors By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jan 28 2009 You can save energy with motion sensors by rigging them to your lights in low-trafficked areas of your home. They won?t save as much money or energy as replacing standard light bulbs with energy-efficient ones will. Most people who give a hoot have already made the switch or are making the switch to CFLs anyway. + READ MORE

To Block... or Not to Block Crawlspace Vents during the Winter? By Eric Leech IN Home & Garden Jan 28 2009 Should you block your crawlspace vents? This is a very common question. Especially in areas that have both a reasonably hot summer and fairly frigid winter. There is not much question that in general these vents are a needed and necessary part of a well maintained home. These vents are placed within the crawlspace to allow the moisture that builds up underneath to have an escape route. + READ MORE

How to Insulate the Door Between Your House and Garage By Seth Leitman IN Home & Garden Jan 28 2009 Homes with attached garages lead to energy waste. The effort that goes into insulating the outside of the house is not often extended to the garage. That's a mistake and here is why. + READ MORE

MPG Meters: Why You Should Get One By Michael Graham Richard IN Tech & Transport Jan 27 2009 Let's start at the beginning: An MPG meter is a device that tells you how many miles per gallon your car is getting (or how many kilometers per liter, for those on the metric system). Some vehicles have this feature on their onboard computer with varying degrees of sophistication—for example, average MPG only, no real-time data—and some cars don't have any way to tell except by doing the math by hand. + READ MORE

Choose to Drive the Most Fuel-Efficient Cars of 2009 By Josh Peterson IN Tech & Transport Jan 26 2009 We are in quite the pickle when it comes to cars. Our society is based on transporting goods and people from one place to another inside of gasoline-powered vehicles. After awhile, we realized that we can't transport things in oil-powered contraptions forever, and that our climate and possibly our society might be destroyed by the machines we've based it on. + READ MORE

Adding or Upgrading Your Attic Insulation Will Save Energy and Reduce Your Carbon Footprint! By Seth Leitman IN Home & Garden Jan 26 2009 Why You Need To Add Or Upgrade Your Insulation Now. The United States Department of Energy (USDOE) says adding insulation to your attic is one of the best ways to make your home comfortable year-round. + READ MORE

Calculate Your Home's R-Value By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jan 22 2009 You can reduce the amount of energy and resources that go into heating and cooling by insulating your home well. But how much insulation do you need? You don't want to spend your money going all-out crazy on insulation. What can be done so you can get the insulation you need for the house that you live in? + READ MORE

You Will Save Energy with Insulation By Seth Leitman IN Home & Garden Jan 22 2009 If you are cold and want to figure out some of the quickest ways to save money year round, you need to add insulation to your home. The bottom line is insulation. + READ MORE

Are all Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs) Created Equal? By Heather Sperling IN Home & Garden Jan 22 2009 Last month, Environmental Working Group (EWG) put out a shopper?s guide to compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). We?ve been hot on CFLs for some time, in part because they?re so cool (ha!). + READ MORE

Ten Ways to Green Your Home for Under Ten Bucks By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Jan 21 2009 When Josh did his post on 5 ways to green your home for under $ 100 I thought that's no challenge, how about for under ten bucks? How about, like, free? So here are a few ideas. + READ MORE

11 Places to Check for Air Leaks By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jan 21 2009 Air leaks are never a good thing. No one has ever said, "If it wasn't for that air leak, we'd all be very poor and ugly." Astronauts and rafters live in special fear of air leaks. And, we, the in-home livers should also dread what air leaks can do to us. They cost us money and waste our precious energy resources. + READ MORE

Know Your Attic Stair Covers By Seth Leitman IN Home & Garden Jan 20 2009 Installing attic stair covers is extremely easy and the best part is you will reduce your energy bills year round. + READ MORE

Try These 6 Energy-Saving Cooking Wares By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jan 15 2009 Cooking is the time-honored tradition of burning something until it is food you want to eat. In the case of meat, we essentially turn something that is gross to our modern eyes into something that is tasty (or still gross to many). There are a variety ways to burn plant and animal bits until they are food, but we should be interested in the ways that are energy efficient. + READ MORE

Consider Blackout Curtains to Save Energy and Control Light and Noise By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jan 14 2009 Blackout curtains were used in Britain during World War Two to hide interior light from Nazi planes. If a Nazi pilot saw light coming from a building, the pilot was likely to bomb that structure. WWII is long over, but blackout curtains have a variety of other uses, including saving you money on heating bills. + READ MORE

How To: Green Your iPod By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Tech & Transport Jan 13 2009 With Apple constantly greening their product, the onus is now falling on users to make the most of battery life to maximize power efficiency, so NaturallySavvy is offering up our solutions for greening the energy-sucking electronics that we just can't live without. + READ MORE

6 Ways to Green Your Range By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jan 8 2009 My diet consists mostly of frozen pizzas purchased at Trader Joe's. I probably eat three to five frozen pizzas a week. Not having a microwave or a toaster oven, my stove is my go-to guy when it comes to frozen pizza preparing. Cutting down on meat is one way that I try to help the planet, but I often wondered if there was anything I could do to make my stove/oven greener. + READ MORE

Take a Hottie to Bed; Stay Warm, Save Energy By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jan 6 2009 Taking a hottie to bed this winter may be one of the most energy-efficient ways to stay warm. A hottie uses less energy than an electric blanket or a space heater, and a hottie can help you keep your body hot and your thermostat down, night after night, all winter long. A hottie, by the way, is New Zealand-style slang for a hot water bottle. The other kind of hottie may also be a great way to warm a bed, but that's a different post for someone more mature. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Green Your Video Game System By Josh Peterson IN Tech & Transport Jan 5 2009 The NRDC came out with a report on video game systems recently. Their findings were astounding. Did you know that video game systems consume 16 billion kilowatt-hours annually, about the same amount of electricity used to power San Diego for year. More than 40 percent of homes have video game systems and many of those video games systems remain on all the time. + READ MORE