Posts Tagged ‘home energy use’

Home Energy “Diet” Coach

Want to trim fat from your home energy use and save on your monthly utility bills?  If so, you’ll need support.  Just like any individual embarking on implementing new life strategies, many people are realizing that a home energy “diet” coach is just the thing to help them realize significant energy savings.  What if you [...]

February 16, 2010 Going green, Peachy 0 Comments

In Home eco-Meter Tracks Daily Use

Cutting back on electricity use can seem simple enough, but have you been able to track exactly what is working (and saving) and what isn’t? It’s mostly guesswork. You do everything you can in a given month to reduce your consumption and when the bill arrives you attempt to figure out how much you saved [...]

November 3, 2009 Going green 1 Comment

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• Improve Your Garden with Solar Lights
  Last weekend, we replaced our old grill on the patio.  That led to planting some containers of flowers, which made me want to string lights along the back deck for extra ambiance.  Its so easy to improve your garden with solar lights! Whether you want to light up your patio (like we did), illuminate a [...] […]
• Solar Power Generation in Tenerife
  No matter where you are in the world, solar power can be harnessed for clean, fossil-fuel free energy. On the island of Tenerife (the largest of the Canary Islands), a utility scale solar facility draws on the sunshine from this area known as “Eternal Spring,” off the western coast of Africa.  Even though its a [...] […]