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05-13-2009 12:52:08 PM - 0 Comments	Posted By: Tom White, Publisher
A 25th Birthday Recognition
I was honored to accept on behalf of Home Energy magazine an award given by Andrew Fisk, ACI VP, at ...

05-12-2009 9:29:36 AM - 1 Comments	Posted By: Alan Meier
May/June 2009 Editorial: Saving Home Energy After the Stimulus
The residential energy business is scurrying around trying to digest the billions of dollars thrown ...

05-01-2009 8:47:56 PM - 0 Comments	Posted By: Jim Gunshinan
Turning Lemons Into Efficient, Affordable Homes
I'm in Kansas City at the annual national meeting of Affordable Comfort, Incorporated, (ACI), a...

04-28-2009 8:11:46 PM - 0 Comments	Posted By: Tom White, Publisher
ACI Home Performance Media Forum: Where are the HP Heroes?
At the ACI National Home Performance conference media forum tonight, panelist Henry Gifford spoke ab...

03-10-2009 9:34:38 AM - 5 Comments	Posted By: Alan Meier
March/April 2009 Editorial: How Private Should Utility Bills Be?
The cover of this issue depicts extraordinarily useful information: the homes whose attics are inade...

01-04-2009 4:07:07 PM - 5 Comments	Posted By: Alan Meier
January/February 2009 Editorial: Now We Know the Value of Energy Star
The elections overshadowed a press release by Energy Star announcing a settlement with LG, one of th...

11-08-2008 4:40:04 PM - 4 Comments	Posted By: Alan Meier
November/December 2008 Editorial: Heat Pump Water Heaters—Another Prius in the Basement?
It was good news to learn that Energy Star has finally announced specifications for water heaters. T...

09-08-2008 4:11:04 PM - 0 Comments	Posted By: Alan Meier
September/October 2008 Editorial: Libertarian Paternalism and Saving Energy
Remember the old TV show “Father Knows Best” from the mid 1950s? As with any TV si...

07-06-2008 6:01:49 PM - 3 Comments	Posted By: Alan Meier
July/August 2008 Editorial: Juneau Saves Electricity in a Hurry
What do you do when the price of electricity suddenly jumps fivefold? This was the dilemma faced by ...

04-28-2008 9:23:46 PM - 4 Comments	Posted By: Alan Meier
May/June 2008 Editorial: Who Is Going to Build the Zero Energy Home?
You could easily have overlooked a quiet change in recent statements by the world’s leading cl...

04-21-2008 1:47:33 PM - 0 Comments	Posted By: Jim Gunshinan
One Part Perspiration, Five Parts Inspiration
ACI trains home performance professionals through national and regional conferences and through the ...

03-04-2008 11:53:25 AM - 0 Comments	Posted By: Alan Meier
March/April 2008 Editorial: Reflections on the Consumer Electronics Show
The 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is already ancient history, and the 140,000 participants, T...

01-04-2008 6:49:23 PM - 4 Comments	Posted By: Alan Meier
January/February 2008 Editorial: The Afterlife of a CFL
The CFL is a poster child for energy efficiency but sometimes in ways that we might not want it to b...

11-03-2007 10:55:25 AM - 2 Comments	Posted By: Alan Meier
November/December 2007 Editorial: Energy Efficiency Pioneers
OK, there’s a new energy-saving product on the market. It might even be the fruit of governmen...

11-02-2007 2:12:22 PM - 2 Comments	Posted By: Home Energy
Alaska Solar Question
Michele writes, "I live in rural Alaska where the cost of fuel is close to 5.00 per gallon for...

10-11-2007 1:47:41 PM - 4 Comments	Posted By: Home Energy
Who controls your thermostat?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star program has promoted programmable thermo...

09-04-2007 3:52:50 PM - 0 Comments	Posted By: Alan Meier
September/October 2007 Editorial: The Rising Cost of Home Energy
Yes, the price of a subscription to Home Energy is rising. Home Energy is published by a non-profit ...

08-05-2007 7:08:44 PM - 1 Comments	Posted By: Jim Gunshinan
Horsing Around for the Home Planet
A friend who is an aficionado of classical music described rock and roll as “a man who got o...

07-02-2007 1:12:56 PM - 2 Comments	Posted By: Alan Meier
July/August 2007 Editorial: Getting the Price Right
Some people claim that most of our inefficient use of energy will disappear once we “get the p...

06-19-2007 11:35:52 AM - 4 Comments	Posted By: Home Energy
May/June 2007 Editorial: My House of the Future?
Nothing frightens me more than those model “homes of the future.” I recently visited one...

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