Home Energy Saving

The West Cook YMCA in Oak Park could win up to $25,000 in the Nicor Gas Energy Efficiency Program Community Challenge if residents and businesses sign up online for one of the company's six energy-efficiency programs. As of March 21, the YMCA had earned...

PETOSKEY -- Grants recently provided to Northwest Michigan Habitat for Humanity have helped the affordable housing ministry build homes that exceed certain construction standards for energy efficienct. These grants, awarded by the Petoskey-Harbor Springs...

Nothing like a little autumnal chill and diminished daylight to get people thinking about their home's inadequate insulation, leaky ducts and watt-guzzling incandescent bulbs. They'll get no sympathy from The Bottom Line, though, because it probably...

Rodgers Forgers certainly celebrated the Towson Fourth of July Parade on a high note. Forgers did us proud as they filled role of featured neighborhood. The community's unit was first to march after the grand marshals, and was indeed a shining example of...

The city of Elgin's Sustainability Commission has advanced many projects to make the city and its residents greener. This July, to help the health of …...

Jim Lett knew his house was leaking money, especially during winter. Of course, he couldn't actually see heat slipping out of wiring conduits, exhaust fans, the attic. But he could feel the pain in his wallet as sure as the draftiness that compelled him...

The typical American family spends about $1,900 a year on home utility bills, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. A home energy assessment, or …...

Nearly 20,000 Hoosiers now have homes that are ready for winter weather thanks to federal stimulus money. Lieutenant Governor Becky Skillman was on the eastside Wednesday, to give an update on the Home Energy Conservation Program. During a normal year,...

You're probably familiar with some of the federal government's incentives for home energy efficiency -- heftier tax credits for solar panels, solar water heaters, geothermal heat pumps, heavy-duty insulation, windows, air conditioning and the like. But...

The effort to revive a home energy efficiency financing program that stalled this summer has a new recruit: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. This week he signed a law that will help route more funding to the Property Assessed Clean Energy program......