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Chloe Comfort profile image80

Gas Furnace Troubleshooting

If your furnace were a car, every year you would drive it 55,000 miles! That is a lot of miles! When was the last time you has your heating system serviced? Your heating system, just like your car, is a...

5 comments    home energy gas
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How to Reduce Your Electricity Bills

Few things put a damper on your day more than receiving a huge electricity bill. You may wonder how it can possibly be as high as it is, especially if you live alone, or share with only a partner. This is a...

9 comments    advice how to home
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Advantages of Investing In Energy-Efficient Appliances

Investing in energy-efficient appliances not only benefits you as the consumer, but it also benefits the environment.  Here are just a few of the advantages to investing in greener appliances:* Lower utility...

0 comments    save money appliance fossil fuel
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Green marketing

A new trend for businesses is green marketing. Green marketing is simply when a business finds ways to integrate products into the company that are environmentally friendly. The products that are marketed by...

0 comments    marketing energy hubchallenge
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Mercury free ( LED backlight ) LCD monitor for home PC and its benefits

Mercury free LCD monitors are more energy efficient and their display is much more better than oridinary LCD monitors. A monitor which uses an LED backlight rather than conventional Cold Cathode Florescent...

3 comments    eco friendly lcd
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Global Warming - is it a proven fact?

If you watch TV you're probably very worried about the prospect of Global Warming - every day a different study confirms that the world is heading towards global disaster, and man is the main factor in...

21 comments    global warming swine flu
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Does Your Residential Heat Pump Heat?

Does Your Heat Pump Heat? I've heard it over and over again. People are getting fed up with their heat pumps. When it gets cold, the heat pump doesn't heat. When it gets really cold, their supplemental...

2 comments    home heating energy efficient
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Energy Tax Credits - Energy Efficiency

This seems to be the Government's Best Kept Secret these days. "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009". The energy tax credit that the government is issuing for home owners who purchase windows...

0 comments    energy efficiency tax credit
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Why Do My Pot Lights Leak?

Common problems from improper insulation material use and type include can or pot lighting. The heat from the pot light collides with the cold from the roof deck forming condensation.  The larger the...

0 comments    energy energy efficiency
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Sell Solar Power Into Your Grid and Make Money

A recent New York Times article blasted solar energy systems as making “no economic sense.” The truth: solar photovoltaic systems aren’t cheap but they do payback. Sales of solar photovoltaic systems have been rising up to 50% annually in some states and it’s not just environmental do-gooders who are investing in the renewable energy. For many homeowners, solar energy is about dollars and cents.

9 comments    advice finance home
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