Posts Tagged ‘conservation’
Blog Post – Actual One Year Savings Data on our Geothermal System
by Mary on May 11, 2011 | Comments Off
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Comments OffThe Decision to Go Geothermal
by Dan on June 29, 2010 | No Comments
The heating and cooling systems on our trusty suburban ranch was more than twenty years old when we decided it was time to replace them with new, high efficiency models. So Mary and I began our due diligence on the subject and started comparing available options. When I first learned about geothermal heating and cooling [...]
Posted in Saving Energy, Saving Money Tags: air conditioner, alternative energy, amount, conservation, cooling, cost, credit, data, earth, eco, ecological, economical, efficiency, efficient, electric, electricity, energy, energy use, expense, federal, gas, geo thermal, geothermal, green, ground, ground source, heating, home, hot water, house, loop, midwest, missouri, money, natural gas, photos, residential, saving, savings, St. Louis, suburban, sustainable, system, tax credit, taxes, technology, time-lapse, utilities, video, water No Comments »Attracting Birds to your Yard
by Mary on June 24, 2010 | No Comments
If you want to attract birds to your backyard there are four things you should strive to provide…food, moisture, cover and housing. We enjoy watching a variety of birds all year long.
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: attract, attracting, backyard, bird, bird feeder, bird house, bird seed, birdbath, birds, cardinal, cedar waxwing, conservation, cover, dove, eco, edible, feeder, finch, gallery, garden, hawk, home, junco, list, missouri, owl, photography, photos, plants, sanctuary, seed, sparrow, St. Louis, suburban, water, wild, wildlife No Comments »Actual Energy Use Data Year 1- See How Our Energy Saving Strategies are Adding Up!
by Mary on May 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
Last updated April 25, 2011 We are implementing energy saving strategies to attempt to reduce our energy use at our home by 50% In this post I am going to be updating graphs showing our total energy use for Electric and Gas showing the difference between the average energy usage of the last 5 years [...]
Posted in Saving Energy, Saving Money, Uncategorized Tags: alternative energy, amount, conservation, conserve, cost, data, eco, ecological, economical, electric, energy, energy consumption, energy use, existing, gas, geo thermal, geothermal, graph, green, ground source, home, house, missouri, money, natural gas, reduce, reduction, residential, save, saved, saving, smart, st. lous, strategies, strategy, suburban, sustainable, utilities 1 Comment »Proper Mulching Technique
by Mary on May 21, 2010 | No Comments
By Mary Francois Deweese – Registered Landscape Architect and Sustainable Site Consultant, Principal of Acorn Landscapes, St. Louis, MO. Today mulch is a staple of the nursery industry and home gardeners are using it with un-cautioned abandon, presumably for the benefit, though sometimes to the detriment, of their plants. This article takes a look at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: conservation, damage, garden, gardening, hardwood, home, how to, how to mulch, landscape, landscaping, mulch, mulching, plants, roots, shrub, shrubs, technique, transplanting, tree, trees, yard No Comments »How We Saved 38% in Energy Costs for our Home Lighting
by Mary on May 13, 2010 | 2 Comments
I wanted to show you how easily you can save money by changing out some of your light bulbs to compact fluorescent or LED. With a few packages of new bulbs we saved 38% off the total cost of running lights in our house. Read more to see exactly how we did it.
Posted in Saving Energy, Saving Money Tags: bulb, CFL, Compact fluorescent, conservation, cost, costs, eco, economical, efficient, energy, energy use, evaluation, fluorescent, green, home, house, LED, light bulb, light bulbs, lighting, lights, list, money, replace, residential, saving, savings, suburban, sustainable, tips, watts 2 Comments »Drill, Baby, Drill: The Dirt on Geothermal Installation
by Dan on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
One of the factors to consider when choosing a geothermal heating and cooling system are the ramifications of the exterior installation requirements. Unlike traditional systems, there is quite a bit of work that needs to be done outside the home to place the lines in the ground that are needed to carry the liquid that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: alternative energy, closed loop, conservation, eco, ecological, energy, geo thermal, geothermal, green, ground source, heat pump, home, landscape, landscaping, residential, sustainable, trenching, vertical suburban No Comments »Time Lapse Geothermal Drilling and
Trenching Videos
by Dan on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
We’ll be doing a number of posts about our new geothermal heating and cooling system. It is a substantial investment in our home, and will go a long way towards meeting our goals of reducing our energy bills and our carbon footprint. These videos are made from time lapse photography we captured during the outdoor [...]
Posted in Saving Energy, Uncategorized Tags: alternative energy, closed loop, conservation, cooling, drilling, eco, ecological, economical, energy, geo thermal, geothermal, green, ground source, heat pump, heating, high efficiency, home, hvac, loop, residential, saving, sustainable, time-lapse, trenching, vertical No Comments »Begin with the End in Mind: Our Home Energy Audit
by Dan on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
With our goal of slashing energy costs by 50% over the next two years, we needed to know what we were dealing with in terms of the condition of our house. We decided to get a home energy audit, which can be a great way to understand the current condition of your home for energy [...]
Posted in Saving Energy, Saving Money, Uncategorized Tags: audit, blower test, conservation, eco, eco friendly, economical, energy, energy use, evaluation, friendly, green, green living, home, infra, infrared, insulation, money, red, residential, saving, savings, sustainable No Comments »Where We’re Starting on Home Energy Use
by Mary on April 25, 2010 | 5 Comments
Before we embark on this journey toward a more sustainable suburban homestead, we need to establish where we’re starting in terms of our energy usage. After all, if we have a goal of cutting our energy usage by 50% over the next two years, we need to know how much energy we’re using now and [...]
Posted in Saving Energy, Uncategorized Tags: appliances, before, beginning, conservation, conserve, consumption, eco, electric, electricity, energy, energy consumption, energy use, evaluation, gas, green, home, lighting, lights, residential, savings, suburban, sustainable, typical, use, waste 5 Comments »
