Archive for the ‘Energy Efficiency’ Category
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Energy efficiency includes more than just the energy in your home. What about your mind and body? In order for your household to be energy efficient, you have to be energy efficient too. For instance, if your spending time in the garden but don't know exactly what you're doing, chances ...
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
With rising energy prices and greater ‘green awareness,’ an increasing number of consumers would like to keep track of their home electricity consumption. An annual meter reading from your supplier isn’t going to help much if you’re concerned about day to day usage, and it certainly doesn’t help you keep ...
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
When your home is blasted with snow and below freezing temperatures, it’s challenging to resist the urge to kick up the furnace. However, the high prices of heating fuel and electrical energy make you think twice and surviving the chill that descends upon your home is a lot easier to ...
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Despite the fact that common laundry detergents on the shelves clean your clothes, they do have the ability to contaminate the soil and water, especially if they contain synthetic petrochemicals and chemicals fragrances. So many conventional laundry detergents don’t clean the earth. Although there are some non-toxic laundry products available ...
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
Every day your water heater is busy warming water, which creates consistently high electricity bills. In order to cut your energy costs, you’re going to have to take matters into your own hands so that the water tank doesn’t need to reheat the existing water in the tank. By implementing ...
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Words to live by: Don’t become a slave to your home.
Housekeeping can take several painstaking hours, and it’s imperative for you and your family’s health to keep counters, floors and vents in tip-top shape. Have you ever heard of the Annoying Building Syndrome (ABS)? Well, its when you make high-maintenance ...
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Should you let your child walk to school or not? For some parents, this is a hot debate, especially depending on the age of their child as well as the neighborhood environment. If your child is mature enough and aware of strangers and other dangers, allowing him/her to walk to ...
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
A power outage can hit your home, neighborhood and town any second. You could experience a loss of electricity for a few minutes, a few hours or even a few days depending on what caused the issue. Between human error and overloaded transformers, the odds of power loss increases, and ...
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
The summertime can be a drain on your finances in more ways than one. Not only are there more opportunities to go on fabulous trips or have blow out parties at your pad, but there is also more of a need for certain appliances or luxuries such as the air ...
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Your refrigerator and freezer could be wasting a significant amount of your electricity, but there are ways to boost these appliance’s efficiencies. In comparison to upright freezers, chest freezers are between 10 to 25 percent more efficient. Also, if you have an Energy Star refrigerator, you’re saving at least 10 ...
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