Sustainable North

BY: John Davies, Cold Climate Housing Research Center
Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily Newsminer August 21st, 2008, Section A3
Is your head swimming with all the talk about energy costs, weatherization, and energy rebates? Are you looking for a good, comprehensive source of information that explains the basics of energy use in your home and what steps you [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer August 11, 2008.
Here’s an amazing fact: About 10 percent of the energy used by a regular incandescent light bulb goes to produce light. The rest is wasted as heat. Though heat is always nice in our cold winters, it is very inefficient heat at a very high cost.
Energy-efficient lights produce [...]

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From the Atlanta Business Chronicle June 24, 2008
The Home Depot Inc. has started a national program to help people recycle compact fluorescent light bulbs at all of its 1,973 U.S. stores.
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