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Is Energy Star Still Relevant? Millions of consumers each year look for the big yellow label on consumer appliances to check an appliance's energy consumption and whether it meets Energy Star standards for energy efficiency. That's why it's troubling to ask whether the Energy Star label itself is still relevant or meaningful. Yet that was...- Energy Star a crock? The April 2006 issue of Smart Money has an article questioning the legitimacy of the federal government's Energy Star program. In essence, the nuts and bolts of what began as an EPA program in 1992 has been handed over to the manufacturers of the appliances that can bear the label....
- Review: Green Design: A Healthy Home Handbook by Alan Berman This latest book by author and architect Alan Berman is written with environmental sustainability in mind. In his book, Berman describes various ways to make the reader's home a more environmentally friendly place to live. The book is teeming with diagrams, simple charts and photographs, enabling users at any level...
- How To Get Federal Tax Credits For Green Remodeling The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is full of initiatives that President Obama and Congress are hoping will boost our economy. At 1588 pages, most people probably wouldn’t take the time to read the whole thing, but there are some tax credits they might be missing out on....
My First Real Life Green Energy Project: Switching Home Lighting to CFL Bulbs. I've finally decided to exchange all of my standard light bulbs for Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs. I realize I'm a few years late in joining the Going Green energy movement, but after spending the last two weeks reading about everyone's retirement accounts being in the crapper (Moolanomy and No...- 13 Free or Cheap Ways To Keep Your Home Cool This Summer Much to the chagrin of my pregnant wife, I held off on turning on the air conditioner until last night. In the evening it was getting cool enough to open the windows and let Mother Nature cool our house. In the morning, I would close the windows and blinds before...
- 5 Tips for Sleeping in a Room with No Air Conditioning Our bedroom has no air conditioning. It's got a ceiling fan and a radiator, so most of the time this isn't a big deal. But every now and then during the summer, it gets so hot in there (especially if we've been sparing in our use of the living room a/c unit) that it's almost impossible to sleep.
Seven Steps To A Successful Professional Home Energy Audit With President Obama announcing thousands of dollars in tax credits for families to increase energy efficiency in their homes, there has never been a better time to perform a home energy audit. Conducting an audit could result you in energy savings equaling hundreds or even thousands of dollars over the...
How To Lower Your Cooling Costs And Go Green This Summer. Along with the dog days of summer comes that scary time of the month when the electric bill arrives...you know the feeling; the white envelope shows up and you are afraid to open it because it might be the size of a mortgage payment. Well, there are a few tips...
- Link hopping: Home improvement & energy saving changes edition It's taken quite a few years to get our house looking more like we want it. We've been actively working at ways to save energy in the process. One of the changes that we made that had the most immediate noticeable effect was switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs)....
Buri Gallery Hotel, Chiang Mai With Monday the 20th declared a special holiday so Thais could vote on the new constitution, I decided to escape to Chiang Mai for a long weekend to check on some things for an up-coming addition to AsiaForVisitors.com. More on that later, but for the purposes of this trip, the...- Are We Creating A Home Or A Habitat? At first glance it seems a strange question to be asked. We’re concerned with marine aquariums, so what is meant by ‘home’ and ‘habitat’? It’s pretty obvious that whether the marine aquarium is a reef or fish only system there’s going to be livestock in it. So we need to...
- Which is better - Ping.FM or HelloTXT? This question brought to you by Tim at Home Search TV. Which is better - Ping.fm or Hellotxt? They do similar things. They allow you to update a lot of your social network at the same time. Your microblogs like Twitter and Pownce. Your Facebook and Myspace pages. I say...
- Stress Is One Of The Biggest Killers As the title of this post say stress is one of the biggest killers to both fish and corals in the home marine aquarium. Next to this will probably be bad maintenance and mis-management of the aquarium and last but not least will probably be laziness. I remember as a...
- The Cold Is Coming..... It is that time of year again where the climate is starting to change to the colder type. It is not the type of weather I personally am a fan of. I like warm weather where time can be spent in the garden, have barbeques, play with the family etc...
- The Banded Coral Shrimp There are a few shrimps that find favour with reef aquarists. Two favourites are the cleaner shrimps Lysmata amboinensis and Lysmata grabhami. Another is the banded coral shrimp, often called the banded boxing shrimp, properly called Stenopus hispidus. Have a look: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Stenopus_hispidus_1.jpg Where the common name comes from is partly...
How To Do A Genealogical Interview Get comfortable If you have made arrangements ahead of time to interview a particular person, try to do it in a quiet setting where there will be little or no interruptions. If you will be tape recording your subject, make sure ahead of time that your recorder is in...- And a Very Happy Birthday... Shout out to my little sister, who is turning 21 today! I still remember seeing her in the hospital, all red and funny-looking. Our pastor's son had to pick me up so I could see her. I remember being told not to jump on mom. I was almost 2 and...
Taking Notes If you live in Florida — or any place with an abundance of paddle fans —you’ve probably learned that a sticky note is not your best method of recording information. Even if you haven’t fallen prey to a paddle fan, you might avoid sticky notes because they tend to stick...
Why We Chose "Freedom" Over "Cash" Most of you know that I am a big fan of Chase banking. I think their bill pay format is the easiest and has the most options. I can see all of my Chase credit card and checking balances on one screen. Chase also happens to have a huge amount...- How To Save Energy & Money In Your Kitchen. I get email requests all the time for how to save money on energy use, but I got one the other day specifically aimed at energy use in the kitchen. So after doing some thinking and wandering around my own kitchen looking for ideas, here are a few of the...
- On This Date in Baseball-June 26 On June 26, 1993, Hall of Famer Roy Campanella dies from a heart attack at the age of 71. Campanella won three MVP awards with the Brooklyn Dodgers over a 10-year career that was cut short by a paralyzing car accident. On June 26, 1970, Frank Robinson smacks two grand...
- Seven pairs of easily confused money terms Every area of specialization has its own vocabulary and its own subtleties in word choice. Here are seven pairs of money terms that seem interchangeable at first glance, but are actually slightly different: APR vs. APY. These abbreviations are familiar ones from banks and credit card issuers. Annual percentage rate...
Authority Sites Dominate With A Bird's Eye View Of Their Markets One common trait I have noticed across the board among people who have killer rankings, regular readers, die-hard customers, and flat out fans of their sites is this:
