Home Improvement Tax Credits

Get your piece of the stimulus bill! Energystar.gov has a good summary of the Federal Tax Credits for Energy Efficiency ... -solar) o Biomass Stoves* Tax credits are available at 30% of the cost, with no upper limit through 2016 (for existing homes & new construction) for: o Geothermal Heat Pumps o Solar Panels o Solar [more...]

Date: 2009-03-24 08:18:14

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A Question About Solar Water Heating Is it a Good Way To Save Money on Electricity?

Recently I received another email question from a visitor inquiring about the best cost effective solution for solar power projects like solar ... efficiency. Otherwise, you'll go broke trying to put enough diy solar panels on a lossy house to keep ... heating. Many people these days are interested in learning and developing solar power for homes [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 16:03:51

TEP Provides Solar Power, Energy Efficiency to “Extreme Makeover” Home

TUCSON, Ariz. - Tucson Electric Power (TEP) is donating photovoltaic panels and a solar water heating system to a house being built in Tucson by ... Guarantee Home that features a custom airflow design, tight insulation and other features that promote ... rebates of up to $3,000 per kW of installed DC-rated capacity to help reduce the up-front cost [more...]

Date: 2009-01-28 01:32:41

Want To Lower Your Energy Cost? Try Recycled Cans!

Using pop cans to help heat your home sounds like a nutty idea at first, but a Canadian company has turned the idea into a profitable business. The company, Cansolair Inc., has been building solar-powered heating panels out of recycled ... has learned many things in order to survive on... Understanding And Operating Heat Pump Systems A heat [more...]

Date: 2009-03-16 10:57:30

HUF 9 Fachwerkhaus 2000 Art: Bringing Together the Elements of Nature

Huf Haus is a renowned German designing firm that has been dishing out some unique homes since 1912 ... , lavish and charming home nestled amidst plenty of green. Featuring passive heating, solar panels ... Related posts: Anna Colombo’s Outdoor Fire Sculpture Bleu Nature And Their Oh So Natural Products [more...]

Date: 2009-03-19 13:00:25

Prefabulous: 9 Amazingly Modern Factory Built Homes

Factory-built homes have a “trailer park” stigma no more.  These amazing modern homes are built in a factory then shipped to site ... itHouse.  The itHouse is completely energy-independent, using technologies like passive heating and cooling, radiant floor heating and photovoltaic solar paneling on its roof for electricity [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 19:11:13

Modesthouse simply elegant prefab homes

Love the look and love the name.  New York architect Jeffrey McKean has designed his Modesthouse and MH Mini homes to integrate seamlessly into their ... performance insulated glazing units, photovoltaic solar panels, ground source heat pump (geothermal ... )Modesthouse utilizes a system of pre-manufactured components such as structural insulated panels (SI [more...]

Date: 2009-04-02 19:37:02

energy check list

There are a couple of cool energy check lists to look at: Energy Information - Energy Saving Tips (from Google) ... to do: Insulate attic and install attic fan Research insulation for exterior walls home energy audit Continue evaluating use of solar panels and tankless water heating [more...]

Date: 2009-02-12 15:00:50

First Green Development in Chester County, PA

The rolling hills of Chester County, Pennsylvania, is home to historic sites and farms, yet just a stone’s throw to Philadelphia ... — thanks to geothermal heat pumps and solar panels! The plan for Kimberton Village Green consists of 6 ground-level retail units and 22 residential condominiums situated atop the commercial spaces [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 19:08:38

UK Researchers: Windmills are a "carbon-saving" scam

Gee, I wonder if this will affect any "green collar" jobs?Small wind turbines attached to individual homes work fine unless you have lousy wind ... clearly purchased the turbines to lower their fossil fuel energy use as some already had solar panels and ground-source heat pumps......the Encraft study, which came out last month, found that many [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 02:03:00

Quarter of UK homes to be offered a green makeover

More than one in four homes in the UK will be offered a complete eco-makeover under ambitious plans expected to be announced this week to slash fuel ... and flats a complete refit to improve insulation, and will be compared to the 10-year programme ... be encouraged to install small-scale renewable and low-carbon heating systems such as solar panels and [more...]

Date: 2009-02-09 00:01:00

Posts about Wireless Internet as of January 10, 2009

Apartment : Room for Rent in cyberia, Cyberjaya, Selangor-450 - letaroom ... 01/10/2009 Mike and I are a tad obsessed with passive energy. Solar panels, passive heated homes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 17:47:41

Beware the 'Green' Label

by Katina Fontes Katina Fontes is Realtor® with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage ... with photovoltaic solar panels and a geothermal heat pump, but it can also refer to a property with above ... than homes built to the 2004 International Residential Code (IRC).  Energy Star homes are verified [more...]

Date: 2009-02-24 22:49:00

This Dome Home Can Resist Category 5 Hurricanes

Here’s real security for you, in times of increasingly severe weather: ... direction by use of a remote control. The solar panels produce most or all of the energy required ... No Heat Zero Energy Home Glows Green When it’s Good for the Planet [more...]

Date: 2009-03-24 11:00:47

Inlet Outlet Feeds Electricity Back To Your House

Nearly every room in our homes and offices has at least one electrical outlet from which we draw power for our gadgets and appliances ... that convert heat into energy. (Imagine a panel next to your oven or behind the refrigerator to capture ... power from the grid, but could also give some back? We already have solar and wind systems for homes [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 17:12:31

5 favorite eco homes

The collection of green homes is growing each year. Despite the current slump in the U.S ... primarily of green Structural Concrete Insulated Panels (SCIPS) made of 60 percent recycled material ... will feature a grid-tied solar electric system, a solar heating system, recycled glass countertops [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 14:23:04

$300 Solarstar Uses the Sun’s Heat to Cool Your Home

By Ovidiu on March 5th, 2009For all those of you living in a house, with roof and fence, ... is so simple, you could do it yourself (you don’t even have to make use of those solar panels, if they’re too expensive, because cooling the attic will save you more than your air conditioner [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 17:56:18

Remodeling Amory Lovins’ home

Amory Lovins’ house Between 1982 and 1984, ... with a 6-kilowatt array of the most efficient solar panels on the market, courtesy of SunPower ... all of its space and water-heat from solar energy, use about a tenth the usual amount of household [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 16:09:15

A "New Creation" at the Nervi

First announced by the Vatican 16 months ago, earlier today the first of 2,400 solar panels went up on the roof of the Home Office's biggest energy guzzler: the 6,300-seat ... electricity to illuminate, heat or cool the hall. "With this plant, if it is working in about two [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 22:08:03

SUSTAINABLE HOMES

New  Eco-Friendly Plans Big news at Houseplans.com this week is the debut of plans by award-winning solar environmental architect David Wright, ... to heat and cool thanks to walls made of structural insulated panels (SIPs). It’s also easy to personalize because the panels can be clad in a variety of  finishes from corrugated metal to stucco [more...]

Date: 2009-03-20 01:56:02

Practical Solar Wants To Heat Your Home Like A Solar Oven

By Andrew Liszewski Here’s an interesting approach to heating your home with solar energy ... , and about 600 watts of thermal energy, so two of them working together can provide as much heat ... . Instead of using solar panels to convert the sunlight into electricity, a company called [more...]

Date: 2009-03-23 08:53:55

Practical Solar Wants To Heat Your Home Like A Solar Oven

By Andrew Liszewski Here’s an interesting approach to heating your home with solar energy ... , and about 600 watts of thermal energy, so two of them working together can provide as much heat ... . Instead of using solar panels to convert the sunlight into electricity, a company called [more...]

Date: 2009-03-23 08:53:55

High Heating Bill? Use Recycled Cans!

by John Horning your keyword hereThe idea of using aluminum cans to heat a home may sound a little nutty at first, ... all rolled into one”, have proven to be cheap and an effective way of using solar energy to heat homes ... cans in it’s solar panels for over 10 years now, and they’ve even won awards for their design. Why [more...]

Date: 2009-03-16 05:21:10

Eco Tutor: Solar Heating for your Home

Solar Heater Diagram This guest article was kindly written by Ron Bean of The Green Chameleon ... that. A Solar water heater uses a solar panel which to collect energy from the sun and convert ... . It’s a great introduction to domestic Solar Heating and how it all works. It’s that time of year [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 17:59:01

Solar Panel at Home

by James WarringtonWe live in a very environmentally conscious society today where solar panels are making advances in becoming the energy of choice ... into electricity to run your solar heating system. This is again a very cost effective strategy to reduce ... solar energy that is available to all of us. Technology is now available so that we can [more...]

Date: 2009-04-03 01:11:32

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