Tag: "weatherization"

Community Action Agencies Continue to Fight for Low-Income Families

Community Action Agencies Continue to Fight for Low-Income Families

Government works when it is directed towards helping its citizens live healthy and productive lives.

 
Leslie Gets Weatherized–You Can Too!

Leslie Gets Weatherized–You Can Too!

An Associate Editor at Home Energy Magazine has her home weatherized for free via PG&E's CARE and Energy Partners Programs.

 
Graywater Comes to the Golden State

Graywater Comes to the Golden State

California uses up to 10% of its energy treating, moving, or heating water, so saving water saves energy as well.

 
Insulate Your &@!*% Attic Hatch, Now!

Insulate Your &@!*% Attic Hatch, Now!

I didn't intend to write about cursing here, but since I am in this so deep now, then damn it, I may as well connect the topic to some cutting edge scientific research. You got a problem with that?

 
Weatherization Gets Down to Business

Weatherization Gets Down to Business

Home energy blogger Jim Gunshinan sends in his post from the 2009 National Weatherization Training Conference, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

 
Reporter's Notes: Let's Weatherize!

Reporter's Notes: Let's Weatherize!

Since people seem to nod off a bit when I say I'm working on a story about energy efficiency, I've had to re-tool my pitch. "It's a story about how installing solar panels or a wind turbine is the last thing you should do to green your house," I say, perhaps a little over-dramatically.

 
"Leafing" Through the Economic Stimulus Package

"Leafing" Through the Economic Stimulus Package

Highlights from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, signed by President Obama on Tuesday.

 
The President Said "Weatherization"

The President Said "Weatherization"

I woke up this morning in Washington DC to snow flurries and then, at a conference of the National Association of State Community Service Providers (NASCSP), to a blizzard of acronyms. I will be dreaming of strings of letters for the rest of the year.

 
Chu, Two and Btu

Chu, Two and Btu

People around here at Lawrence Berkeley Lab are saddened by the loss of Dr. Chu as director, but extremely excited about his nomination as Secretary of Energy.