energy efficiency: Ten Tough Tips For Saving Energy - Pennsylvania or Anywhere... - 01/25/08 03:10 PM
Affordable Comfort, Inc. is a great organization advancing the greener home agenda here in the United States. Happily, they're also based out of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh to be exact). Home energy contractors and auditors are all familiar with their work and leadership.
On their homepage today is a great downloadable paper on tips … (20 comments)
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energy efficiency: Lancaster City PA Homes - Preparing For Winter (Part Three of a Series) - 11/20/07 12:42 PM
Continuing in my fall series on preparing for a Lancaster County winter, I wanted to focus on Lancaster City and the boroughs such as Millersville, East Petersburg, Mountville, Columbia City, Quarryville, Elizabethtown, Denver, etc. In these towns there is a concentration of older row homes, usually brick but sometimes stick built, … (4 comments)
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energy efficiency: Green Roofs In Lancaster? - 6 City Businesses To Build Them - 11/19/07 01:17 PM
Last week Lancaster City and the state announced a project to bring a little country into the urban environment - by building "green" roofs on 6 city structures. These roofs will consist of soil layers with plantings, giant flowerboxes that, when completed, will insulate the buildings beneath and interact with the … (4 comments)
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energy efficiency: Lancaster, PA Homes Preparing For Winter - Part Two: Use The Sun To Heat Your Home! - 11/16/07 03:04 PM
This is the second in a series of articles on how to beat the cold this winter using "green" home performance techniques. My first article was on FIREPLACES...
Today let's discuss using the Sun directly to heat your home. Green Building pros call this PASSIVE SOLAR.
Passive solar is the intentional use of … (7 comments)
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energy efficiency: Lancaster, PA Homes Preparing For Winter - Part One: Fireplaces Are Trouble! - 11/12/07 01:01 PM
I thought I'd post a series of (short) articles on energy-efficiency now that our Northeast winter is just around the corner.
My first topic will be that of FIREPLACES.
Most buyers hope or ask for a fireplace when purchasing a home. The Lancaster PA Real Estate market loves a fireplace! Of course, … (12 comments)
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energy efficiency: Lancaster PA Electric Rates Rise Effective Today - 08/01/07 04:44 PM
Well, it's started.
PP&L raised the rates of residential consumers in it's Southeast Pennsylvania market effective August 1st (that's today, folks). The increase for today is expected to be almost 4%, according to a Lancaster Newspapers article on the subject. It's part of a two-stage increase in the short-term, with the second … (5 comments)
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energy efficiency: "Carbon Offsets" - Selling Our Responsibility Away - 07/31/07 12:10 PM
Many of you may never have heard of the term "carbon offsets" but they are taking off in the green-friendly community right now. I was reading about them in the latest edition of World Magazine and found the concept worth talking about.
Basically, a carbon offset is a credit purchased by … (21 comments)
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energy efficiency: PA Keystone Help Loan Approved - And the Furnace is in! - 07/21/07 01:13 AM
Continued from last week...
This week the folks from UGI were out to install the furnace and coil, but not before another contractor contacted me to propose doing the work for $2,500. UGI had originally quoted me $3,320. I was a bit surprised and discussed the difference with Margaret from UGI, my … (5 comments)
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energy efficiency: Keystone Help Financing for a New Gas Furnace - 07/13/07 04:51 PM
Well, I decided to bite the bullet and get our really old, inefficient gas furnace yanked out in favor of a new-tech furnace. We are redoing our basement and it's a great time to remove the old clunker (literally) and move into the 21st century. I'm excited! I decided to make … (7 comments)
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energy efficiency: Costco Offering Green Products - Who Knew? - 07/03/07 11:50 PM
I was in everyone's favorite uber-box store, Costco, for my annual pilgrimage to purchase 2 buckets of chlorine tabs for my pool. Was with my two boys who insist that we troll the store for the free samples (those of you who do this are smiling right now).
Lo and behold, … (9 comments)
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energy efficiency: Energy Efficiency - Insulation: What's an "R" Value? - 06/20/07 05:23 PM
If you're looking to improve your home's performance, a great first place to start is with the insulation. Most homes, especially older ones, are seriously short on insulation. In this hot season, why bleed your air conditioning dollars out of the house?
First, R-Value. Insulation's effectiveness is rated in R-Values. "R" stands … (13 comments)
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energy efficiency: Concrete Home in Lancaster County - A First - We Visit It - 06/18/07 05:26 PM
Yesterday I took my family up to Clay Township in Lancaster County to check out the first all-ICF (insulated concrete forms) house built in this area. It was constructed by Garman Builders and is priced at a little over $300,000.
It's a ranch-style and looks exactly like a traditional stick-built … (10 comments)
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energy efficiency: Solar Hot Air System - Installed by Blue Moon - 06/16/07 10:18 PM
Just this past week my friend Steve Mellinger of Blue Moon Enterprises enjoyed another successful installation of a solar-driven system for residential. This time it was a solar hot air system, and the client is very happy! In order to continue to promote alternative energy for Real Estate here in Lancaster … (16 comments)
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energy efficiency: Lancaster PA Home performance school in the works - 05/30/07 03:06 PM
Here's a quote from Tamasin Sterner, Southeast PA's original home performance expert. Hot off the presses!
"Coming in 2008: Home Performance Contractor's School. A. Tamasin Sterner, founder of Pure Energy, will be opening a training facility for contractors to learn: how to properly insulate and air seal homes; how to install residential solar … (3 comments)
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energy efficiency: Electric Rates set to skyrocket in Pennsylvania when rate caps are removed - 05/29/07 03:28 PM
In case you didn't know yet, the price of electricity in Pennsylvania has been controlled since 1996 when rate caps were put in place as a compromise with the regional utilities, who owned the state's power plants after deregulation tried unsuccessfully to stimulate competition in the 1990s. Since 1997 Pennsylvania's utility … (5 comments)
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energy efficiency: Why I love Jim Dulley's work - 05/29/07 02:23 PM
If your local paper features Jim Dulley's columns, you're in luck. He is dedicated to energy savings and new innovations that directly benefit today's homeowner. Visit his website here to see what he's doing today.
I especialy liked his article in last Sunday's Lancaster News entitled "Where are the air leaks … (0 comments)
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energy efficiency: Home Performance - a "black art" that's coming clean - 04/20/07 01:56 PM
Considering the wide variety of home styles and ages in the Southeast Pennsylvania region, and how horribly inefficient many homes can be energy-wise (ever seen jalousy windows?) I'm always surprised at the relative obscurity of "home performance" as a service. I'd venture to say that 99% of homeowners don't even know … (0 comments)
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