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AirKrete Fire Proof Foam Insulation: Peace of Mind with Lower Energy Bills

February 9, 2010

Note: post has been updated as of 2/15/2010 due to conversation with Keene Christopher, CEO of AirKrete.
The other day as I was sitting around of table of women at a Super Bowl Party, one of the women commented on how cold this particular winter has been Quickly the conversation turned to how cold their own [...]

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This is Our Moment to Stand-up and Tell Congress Vote Clean Energy

January 28, 2010

Watch this 3 minute video of This is Our Moment with Leo DiCaprio, Edward Norton, Forest Whitaker, Jason Bateman, Felicity Huffman, Chace Crawford, Emmy Rossum and Justin Long to tell our elected officials to vote for the American Clean Energy and Security Act pending in the Senate. This video was the brain child of the National [...]

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Memtech Door Sweeps Brushing Away Cold Drafts

January 21, 2010

How many of you struggle with door air infiltration in your home or office? Does it seem like your exterior office or home doors or perhaps, your overhead doors leak like sieves? How about if you could just brush those air drafts good-bye with a simple weatherstripping product? Look no further. Memtech weatherstripping and draft [...]

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Solar Pool Heat: The Economic and Environmental Way to Heat your Swimming Pool

January 11, 2010

Are you dreaming for spring like I am with the average temperatures in the New Jersey area hovering around 21 degrees? Day dreaming about the pool you have in your backyard and dipping your toe into the warm pool water?
Well, if you live in the northeast like me, I can’t dip my toe in my [...]

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Builder Dan Phillips’ Philosophy: One Man’s Trash Is Another’s Home

December 2, 2009

Dan Phillips of The Phoenix Commotion is my hero. He builds low income housing made out of salvaged, recycled materials. Recently featured on MSNBC, he talked about how his homes are not a hodgepodge of different materials. Instead his houses are whimsical, thought provoking, and warm.
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t have a complete set of anything [...]

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Green Speed Links for November 29, 2009

November 30, 2009

Photo by Fernando de Sousa.
Usually my Green Speed Links for the week are an eclectic group of green news. For some reason, green building news caught my eye this week. For those of you who are not as enamored with green building as I am, I sprinkled the links with other interesting green news. Check [...]

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Will Triple Pane R-5 Windows Become the Norm?

November 4, 2009

Photo from Department of Energy.
I bet you just got used to hearing about double pane, Low-E glass, Argon filled windows. You know the ones. The ones labeled as ENERGY STAR? Now, there is a new babe in town getting a lot of attention from the Department of Energy. The R-5 window has all the [...]

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Green Speed Links for November 1, 2009

November 2, 2009

Photo by Fernando de Sousa.
This week my email box was jammed with press releases as well as interesting reads. I have no idea what is in the air but it seemed as if the green chatter was so much louder this week. Kind of like the amount of ladybugs I have clinging to my windows screaming ”let me [...]

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Dreaming about Installing a Solar Hot Water System?

October 29, 2009

Attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ukinitaly/ / CC BY-ND 2.0
Solar Hot water Evacuated tube collectors seem to be the rage at the International Builder’s Show last winter. I don’t know why, but those gleaming dark tubes just caught my eye. The more I learned about them, the more I liked the whole concept. Putting a solar hot water [...]

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Energy Monitors Curb Your Consumption

October 19, 2009

Brendan Gill of Plentyways contributed the following post to Green Talk about the benefit of Energy Monitors to reduce your energy consumption. I asked him to write about this topic since I, myself, grapple at which monitors to use.

The idea behind energy monitors is that you measure and graph the total amount of electricity that [...]