Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Provides consumers with home energy and money savings tips such as insulation, weatherization, heating, cooling, water heating, energy efficient windows, landscaping, lighting, and energy efficient appliances.
Author: Alex Wilson Publisher: ISBN: 9780918249241 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
The updated 5th edition of Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings identifies the most energy-efficient home appliances by brand name and model number. Reader-friendly and packed with illustrations, this handbook helps any homeowner save energy and money. Chapters include: -- energy use and the environment -- insulating and sealing air leaks -- new window options -- space heating -- cooling and air conditioning -- water heating -- refrigeration -- lighting...and much more This book is as compact and efficient as its subject matter. Its 274 pages are crammed with money-saving information. A directory of manufacturers helps the reader access purchase information on recommended appliances.
Author: Alvin Ubell Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0028642791 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 208
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-- Alvin Ubell, the Household Hints and Safety Reporter with Good Morning America, is the recognized expert on this topic. -- This book will be heavily promoted. A deal with the Cleveland affiliate of PBS has already been formed. In addition, Alvin Ubell will promote the book in Family Circle -- a magazine which has a circulation of over 10 million readers. -- This book will be out by the time the home heating season begins. Save Energy, Save Money will be a timely book that teaches readers what they can do to cut energy costs in the home and in the car. This book will be based on Alvin Ubell's Energy-Saving Guide for Homeowners -- a book which sold over 1,000,000 copies in its 10 printings from 1980 to 1988. Save Energy, Save Money will be a Do-It-Yourself book that covers specific things that all homeowners/car owners can do to save on their bills, such as how to make your furnace more efficient, how to save on lighting; how to minimize heat loss through windows and doors, how to use your appliances economically, how to find the most energy efficient car for your need, how to save on car fuel costs, how to take advantage of energy tax breaks, and more!
Author: Nancy Sleeth Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 141432698X Category : Human ecology Languages : en Pages : 431
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Sleeth divulges hundreds of practical, easy-to-implement steps that create substantial money savings while protecting the Earth. She also demonstrates how going green helps people live more God-centered lives by becoming better stewards.
Author: Robert Sroufe Publisher: Island Press ISBN: 164283050X Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 234
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Your building has the potential to change the world. Existing buildings consume approximately 40 percent of the energy and emit nearly half of the carbon dioxide in the US each year. In recognition of the significant contribution of buildings to climate change, the idea of building green has become increasingly popular. But is it enough? If an energy-efficient building is new construction, it may take 10 to 80 years to overcome the climate change impacts of the building process. New buildings are sexy, but few realize the value in existing buildings and how easy it is to get to “zero energy” or low-energy consumption through deep energy retrofits. Existing buildings can and should be retrofit to reduce environmental impacts that contribute to climate change, while improving human health and productivity for building occupants. In The Power of Existing Buildings, academic sustainability expert Robert Sroufe, and construction and building experts Craig Stevenson and Beth Eckenrode, explain how to realize the potential of existing buildings and make them perform like new. This step-by-step guide will help readers to: understand where to start a project; develop financial models and realize costs savings; assemble an expert team; and align goals with numerous sustainability programs. The Power of Existing Buildings will challenge you to rethink spaces where people work and play, while determining how existing buildings can save the world. The insights and practical experience of Sroufe, Stevenson, and Eckenrode, along with the project case study examples, provide new insights on investing in existing buildings for building owners, engineers, occupants, architects, and real estate and construction professionals. The Power of Existing Buildings helps decision-makers move beyond incremental changes to holistic, results-oriented solutions.
Author: Joanna Yarrow Publisher: ISBN: 9781844836611 Category : Conservation of natural resources Languages : en Pages : 132
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"How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint is the world citizen's guide to pushing back the advance of global warming. This colorful handbook offers 500 practical, easily achievable ideas that conserve energy, prevent pollution, and save money. Did you know that unplugging appliances and cell phone chargers when not in use can reduce electricity bills by 10 percent? Or that recycling just one glass bottle saves enough power to run a computer for 30 minutes? Whether the subject is jet travel, dish washing, or any of the 50 topics in the book, surprising statistics and innovative graphics will inspire action and demonstrate that simple habits can lead to big results"--Amazon.com
Author: Brian Keane Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0762790598 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 259
Book Description
Here is a no-nonsense guide to how you, the average American, can easily make clean energy and energy efficiency part of your daily life, saving money, making money, and weaning your community off fossil fuels in the process. Energy guru Brian F. Keane walks you through the cost-benefit trade-offs of the exciting new technologies and introduces you to revolutionary clean-energy products on the horizon, making the ins and outs of renewable energy easily accessible. Featuring compelling, real-life stories that bring clean-energy problems and solutions from 30,000 feet to street level, Green Is Good walks you that last mile from awareness to adoption. It demonstrates how all of us can seize the opportunity and profit from it. Keane also discusses the challenges that clean energy faces, laying out time-tested strategies to overcome them. A renewable energy future isn’t just good for the environment; it’s good for the economy, and Green Is Good will show you how—before it’s too late.
Author: International Energy Agency Publisher: OECD ISBN: Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 266
Book Description
The manner in which we produce & consume energy is of crucial importance to sustainable development, as energy has deep relationships with each of its three dimensions -- the economy, the environment & social welfare. These relationships develop in a fast-moving & complex situation characterized by increasing globalisation, growing market liberalisation & new technologies, as well as by growing concerns about climate change & energy-supply security. In order to make energy an integral part of sustainable development, new policies need to be developed. Such policies must strike a balance among the three dimensions of sustainable development. They must reduce our exposure to large-scale risk. The IEA has synthesized a number of experiences with policies aimed to promote sustainable development. These experiences are reported in seven subject chapters on energy supply security, market reform, improving energy efficiency, renewable energies, sustainable transport, flexibility mechanisms for greenhouse gas reductions & on non-Member countries.
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