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The Net Impact of Home Energy Feedback Devices
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Recently, much attention has been focused on modifying the way individuals interact with energy consuming products in their homes. In order to examine the viability of real-time feedback devices to produce energy savings, Energy Trust ... [continue reading]
Another Good Reason to Become a Vegetarian
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Our focus in Home Energy has always been on energy-efficient, healthy, affordable, and sustainable homes, but there are other areas of our lives that account for our total carbon footprint—how much carbon we ... [continue reading]
Evaluating Energy Use Feedback Devices
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Experience shows that occupant behavior can make all the difference when it comes to saving energy in homes. [continue reading]
Engineering the Customer into the Solution
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Most conservation and demand-side management managers can agree that conserving energy is much more cost-effective than securing additional energy resources. Consequently, various innovative conservation and pricing strategies are being tested and adopted by utilities as ... [continue reading]
Weatherization Tutoring for the Homeowner
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The key to a happy client is not just work that's done well, but work that involves the client's participation in the project. [continue reading]
Real-Time Pricing: Will a Glowing Orb Lead the Way?
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The nation's first large-scale real-time pricing program began in 2003 in the metropolitan Chicago area. It's credited with a 3% decrease in customer energy use in the summer. [continue reading]
Reducing Greenhouse Gases from Middle-Class Homes
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In 1998 the Canadian federal government signed on to the Kyoto Protocol with a stated goal of reducing national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 6% below 1990 levels by 2012. This is a difficult level to achieve, and every ... [continue reading]
Greening Residential Maintenance
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This is the final installment of my series on green residential building. In this column, I want to emphasize the importance of residential behavior on green buildings. There are a number of actions and behaviors ... [continue reading]
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Conversations from the Wx Frontlines: Robert Parkhurst
At the most recent National Weatherization Training Conference that took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, six people were presented with ...
Macie Melendez
Home Performance and the Real Estate Market: A Perfect Match
If the home performance industry had an online dating profile, it would likely be looking for someone with a great ...
