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How To: Winterize Your House In fewer days than a weekend, you can enact strategic measures to combat cold floors, wasted energy and higher bills.   |
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Save the Planet, Save Your Pennies To make a lasting impact on the planet and your wallet, consider making an investment of time and a little money in appliances and home improvements. They may cost a little upfront, but they'll save you money in the long run. |
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How To Save Energy Here are four basic areas of the home that provide ample opportunities to reduce energy use and save money. |
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Little Ways to Save Big on Your Heating Bill Here are three changes you can make this winter that yield worthwhile returns. |
Home Toys
June 2003
Rick Tinker |
The Cold Sweat and Hot Chills of HVAC Security With the increased reliability of HVAC home automation solutions, you can enjoy the benefits of control, convenience and energy savings in your home. By integrating the security system to the HVAC system, you can greatly simplify the effort of pulling it all together. |
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October 28, 2006
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Save Big on Your Heating Bill Winterize your home to stay warm while saving money. |
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June 25, 2004
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Cool Off Your Cooling Bill We're heading into the dog days of summer, July and August, when we'll likely fire up our air-conditioners and then wince when we open our electric bills. Here are some tips on how to reduce your cooling bills. |
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December 17, 2003 |
16 Ways to Cut Fuel Bills You can't control the cost of a barrel of crude, but you can take steps to cut your heating and gas bills. |
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October 30, 2007
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Hold In That Hot Air! Part 2 Winter's coming; here are more winterizing steps for big energy savings. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
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19 Ways to Slash Your Utility Bill You don't need an infrared camera to reveal utility-bill busters that are left after the obvious stuff is done. You need the right point of view. Big energy leaks are often hiding in plain sight. |
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Eight Homeowners Save Over $12,275 on Energy How? By putting power-saving technologies to work inside their homes. Read on to see if you can do the same. |
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Lower Your Heating Costs As winter settles in, here are some money-saving tips for keeping the cold out. |
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Reduce Your Energy Costs Given that energy expenses are rather steep these days, you may want to consider these simple ways to cut down on your energy costs. |
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July 25, 2006
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Keep Your Cool (and Your Cash) Cut your summer utility bills by as much as 40% with these simple savings tips. |
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April 23, 2008
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How to Go Green in One Weekend Doing right by the environment can have financial rewards for your home and office, too. |
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Save on Heating Costs Winter is on the way, and we'll soon be experiencing paroxysms of despair when we open our heating bills. Here are some tips on heating your home for less. |
Home Toys
June 2005 |
Adding Heat to Cold, Finished Rooms Most homes will have one or more areas in them that are chronically cold. There are a variety of solutions to this common problem including portable electric heaters, hot water heaters, and even under floor heating. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2008
Roy Berendsohn |
How Your Heating System Works: A Primer Regardless of what prompts you to take a second look at your house's heating system, or perhaps the first look, you do need to be conversant with what makes it tick. Here are the basics. |
AskMen.com
Iain Ilich |
How To: Winterize Your Home As energy prices soar worldwide, getting your home ready for the upcoming winter season is a smart way to save money, with the added benefit of keeping your home nice and warm during the colder half of the year. |
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April 2009
Elizabeth Svoboda |
10 Weekend Projects to Make Yours a Smart(er) Home Here are 10 weekend projects and 14 quick tips to make a smarter, more affordable home. |
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November 30, 2006
Mary Dalrymple |
Save in Small Bites Don't get overwhelmed by the size of your savings goals. |
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January 21, 2009
Dayana Yochim |
Stop Paying to Heat the Whole Neighborhood Big savings -- financially and atmospherically -- can be had by giving your home's biggest energy hogs (heating and cooling systems and major appliances) a little TLC. Plug the leaks and slash your utility bills by 30%. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2010
Ellen Kathrine Hansen |
Denmark's Net-Zero-Energy Home With Home for Life, VKR Holding aims to bring carbon-neutral houses to the masses |
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October 10, 2006
Mary Dalrymple |
Warm News for Winter Take some control over winter heating bills. |
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January 15, 2010
Dayana Yochim |
Stop Heating the Entire Neighborhood Save big by giving your home's biggest energy hogs a little TLC. |
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October 3, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Prepare to Winterize Your Home Winter brings changes to our schedules, to our moods, and to our homes, too. There are many things you should do around your home before winter really sets in, things that can save you money, and even your life. |
Home Toys
October 2002
Wade Johnston |
Electric Underfloor Heating: Quiet, Comfortable, Connected Electric floor heating systems are usually connected through a programmable thermostat that controls each individual room. These thermostats work off a floor sensor to allow accurate control of the heat. |
This Old House
Zachary Gaulkin |
Smart Thermostats The latest energy-saving devices can talk to your power company -- and you |
Popular Mechanics
June 23, 2008
Joseph Truini |
5 Money-Saving Ways to Stay Cool This Summer There's a perfect summer storm brewing, and it's going to dramatically increase the cost of keeping our homes cool. |
Popular Mechanics
August 22, 2008
Joseph Truini |
15 Smart Ways to Save Water (and Money): DIY Guy Here are 15 painless ways to save water. They're good for both your wallet and the world. |
Popular Mechanics
October 25, 2007
Jennifer Bogo |
Out With the Old (Appliance, That Is) Eventually, inevitably, old appliances begin to do more harm than good to the environment. |
Home Toys
June 2003
Roger Stamm |
Lighting the way to energy efficiency and cost savings with whole-home lighting controls By their inherent design and very purpose, lighting controls are a way to not only save electricity and related costs, they're a fun, convenient and futuristic way to go about it. |
Popular Mechanics
December 5, 2008
Roy Berendsohn |
Hot Water Heater Woes: How to Make Sure There's Enough Hot Water in Winter If your home always seems to run out of hot water quickly, your first approach should be to take a few energy-conserving steps. |
This Old House
David Dobbs |
10 Ways to Beat the Heat Staying cool this summer doesn't necessarily mean you have to pay a fortune to keep the air-conditioning running day and night. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
Mosko & Bellotti |
Smart Conservation for the Lazy Consumer People aren't conserving energy for love or money -- you have to trick them into it |
Popular Mechanics
May 27, 2009 |
Quick Fixes for Unreliable Ovens and Stoves Appliances can make life easier, until they start leaking, heating imperfectly and generally malfunctioning. Here are some quick fixes for ovens and stoves. |
Home Toys
October 2002
Jack Goldberg |
A Day in the Life A typical day in the life of a home automation system controller, as seen through its eyes |
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Danny Lipford |
Calling in an HVAC Pro Tips for dealing with the pros who maintain and repair your heating and cooling systems... |
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Michael Estrin |
10 Common Savings Mistakes Here are the 10 most common mistakes people make about saving money. |
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April 2003
Christopher Clement |
Tracking Energy Waste Even the most impressive homes today can't claim to have all the greatest technology currently available if they don't have an energy management system. |
AskMen.com
Tara Weiss |
Temperature Wars In The Office Keeping offices comfortable for employees is virtually impossible, since "comfortable" means something different to everyone. |
Popular Mechanics
December 26, 2008 |
How to Prevent Ice Dams, and What to Do If You Get Them To prevent an ice dam, don't heat the roof, keep it cold. That way, the snow on the roof eventually dissipates without making large amounts of meltwater. |
This Old House
Jeanne Huber |
15 Green Projects for Under $500 Hang your clothes out to dry, wrap your pipes, let worms eat your garbage. With those and our other easy, affordable ideas you can save energy, conserve resources, and make your house a less expensive place to live. |
Entrepreneur
April 2007
Chris Penttila |
It's Easy Being Green There are more ways than ever for your small business to save energy, money and the environment. |
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Fran J. Donegan |
Shrink Your Energy Bills Making your home more energy efficient isn't rocket science. |
This Old House
November 2007
Max Alexander |
Geothermal Heat Pump For the ultimate in comfort and energy conservation, start by digging a hole. |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
IBM: Data Centers Could Cool Themselves With Their Own Waste Heat The centers, which use tremendous amounts of energy, will become far more efficient if "waste heat" generated by churning data centers can be converted into cool air. |
Home Toys
June 2006
Jack Goldberg |
My Vacation Home -- My System In addition to this home's lighting, which is controlled by individual single-gang, eight-button switches, the air conditioning and heating, motorized drapes, audio & video, and Jacuzzi are easily controlled by the Vantage Smart Home System. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009
Elizabeth Svoboda |
EcoDrain Warms Cold Pipes With Warm Shower Water You already paid to heat the water washing down your shower drain -- why waste it? |
AskMen.com
February 3, 2002
Rashmikant Patel |
Avoid Living Paycheck To Paycheck In these trying times, people are having difficulty putting money aside for their long-term benefit. Here are a couple of tips to consider when planning your long-term financial growth... |
