Home Energy Saving

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......

Naperville residents looking to save money on utility bills through more can again apply for help through the city. Naperville’s Home Energy Savings Program will …...

In an effort to simultaneously encourage energy conservation and increase students' interest in science, the Department of Energy announced its Home Energy Education Challenge on Tuesday. Administered by the National Science Teachers Assn., the...

IKEA announced it will no longer stock or sell incandescent light bulbs, effective Tuesday. The world's largest retailer of home furnishings says it is the first major retailer to stop selling incandescents. "IKEA is committed to integrating sustainable...

Los Angeles-based homebuilder KB Home is taking a page from the car industry by slapping an efficiency label on all its new properties. Like automakers, who are rolling out a legion of electric and hybrid vehicles, residential construction companies are.....

Southern California’s housing market kicked off 2011 with a slump. Sales were at their worst level for a January in three years and prices also dipped. The price declines, which were steepest in the Inland Empire, were driven by a......

The federal government handed over the keys to a handful of electric vehicles it purchased Tuesday. The 116 cars -- a mixture of Chevrolet Volts, Nissan Leafs and Think Cities -- are the first electric vehicles to be purchased by......

You can save money by making your home energy-efficient. And now you can get help with that, too. The nonprofit Civic Works will do the job for free for low-to moderate-income residents in the neighborhoods of Belair-Edison, Harwood, Waverly and...

Some online resources to get you started with home energy and water conservation: Energy Department's energy savers: A laundry list of tips to save energy and money. Go to www.eere.energy.gov and click on "Consumers." Flex Your Power: California's...

Many tips for saving home energy that are doled out this time of year cost more money than they will ever be worth in heat savings--replacing all the windows in your house, for example. But adding a storm door may be money well spent. A storm door goes...

The forum was a think tank, one of Washington's oldest, the Brookings Institution. The topic was jobs, the stubborn unemployment numbers that have made the nascent economic recovery bittersweet. President Obama's idea? Use the savings from cheaper...

Federal regulators have essentially put the kibosh on nationwide lending programs linked to home energy efficiency retrofits, encouraging state and local governments to rethink “significant safety and soundness concerns.� In a statement Tuesday, the...