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Would you rather: a.) Shovel out your driveway after a big snowstorm or b.) Pay your utility bills in January? Unfortunately, most of us don’t actually get to choose whether or not to pay our utility bills – that is, if we want to keep coming home to a warm house this winter. However, you can choose to perform some DIY upgrades in your home that will at least help you lower the amount of money you’re spending to heat your home this winter. Here are five energy efficiency improvements you can make to save money on your utilities and lower your heating bill: 1. Seal your ducts The Problem : Many older duct systems were originally sealed with duct tape, which can break down overtime, creating air leaks in your ductwork. This causes two problems
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How to lower your heating cost: 5 DIY tips
Daniel J. Weiss, in a CAP cross-post . President Barack Obama came into office determined to address America’s persistent energy problems. These challenges included protecting our health, reducing oil use, slowing global warming, and boosting our international economic competitiveness. All of these challenges remain despite the administration’s energy achievements, which is why President Obama should include a comprehensive clean energy agenda in his State of the Union on January 25 that addresses them. He should also warn Congress that he would veto congressional efforts to block or slow such progress. The administration has many energy successes along with a major disappointment. One of those successes was the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or ARRA that included $90 billion of direct spending and tax incentives to invest in clean energy technologies and services
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Clean energy progress without Congress – Priorities for State of the Union and beyond
Guest blogger Andy Rowell of Oil Change International , in a WonkRoom cross-post . We are on the path to climate chaos, Big Oil has admitted. Both BP and Exxon have conceded that progress on climate change is totally insufficient to stabilize CO2 emissions. Both oil companies have just published their Energy Outlooks , and the outlook looks grim. In a bleak prognosis for success on reducing carbon dioxide emissions, BP admits in its new Energy Outlook 2030 report, which was published yesterday, that global CO2 emissions from energy will grow an average of 1.2 percent a year through 2030.
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Tar sands investor BP says their projected future of unlimited carbon pollution “is a wake-up call, not something any of us would like to see…
Sierra Club India Environment Post: By 2030 the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts there will be 1.2 billion people lacking access to electricity, which gives the world 1.2 billion reasons to get energy lending right. Getting it right means making the future of rural electrification decentralized renewable energy systems for off-grid populations. In fact, the IEA predicts that for universal energy access to occur 70% of rural populations world wide will rely on decentralized renewable energy – not the failed centralized power generation and grid extension model. This has spurred a new generation of Indian entrepreneurs to ask why …
Electricity generators that burn biomass, such as wood, will get a partial three-year reprieve from new regulatory requirements for large industrial facilities that emit greenhouse gases. [DOI:10.1021/CEN010411141006]
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EPA Defers Permits For Biomass Burning