Kudos to the Environmental Clubs at Emerson and Hawthorne. Both are making a real effort to give kids in Elmhurst a hands-on opportunity to go green and protect the planet. See today’s Elmhurst Press article for great info.
What a great lesson. And what is more fun to talk about, weigh and evaluate than a pile [...]
The Trib published it’s annual look at the region’s schools today (based on test scores). http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/chi-103009-report-cards-story,0,1553698.story
They have a great tool that allows you to compare schools by county, district or state to see how your school stacks up. You can choose to sort by specific test scores or combined test scores. The good news is [...]
A green home is also a healthy home. Last week I posted about radon. Now this week my friends at Green Dream Group shared some important information on carbon monoxide. Their services include a “safety combustion test” as part of their energy audit package. That includes checking any appliances in your home that are gas-fired to [...]
This week, Vice President Joe Biden announced the White House’s Recovery through Retrofit report. The action plan aligns several national efforts and organizations to jump start simultaneous energy savings and green jobs in America. One of these efforts is the ideas outlined in the REEP legislation I supported on Capitol Hill earlier this month.
CNN/Money has a [...]
We had a great session for the first 5×10 Improvement workshop last night. One topic that people were really interested in was the Energy Audit. You can learn more about why I think an energy audit is so important in my previous postings. And yes, I am continuing to offer one free energy audit to any [...]
A green home, of course is a healthy home. One important key to health is managing radon in your home. Radon is a colorless, odorless gas but is linked to lung cancer.
No radon in your home is good, but the current EPA standard is that action is required for readings above 4.0. (See the above [...]
My whole adventure into energy efficiency homes started with a phone call into Lou Manfredini’s “Mr. Fix-It Show” on WGN. I waited on hold about 90 minutes to get my question answered and earned four nifty Mr. Fix-It hats for my patience! It was the frustrations of keeping that maddening townhouse appropriately warm and cool [...]
Well…for right now, it’s Elmhurst! Elmhurst is a participating city in the Sierra Club International’s Cool Cities Initiative. Since 2005 one city at a time has been coming on board to make a commitment to fight global warming. There are five milestones a city must address on the journey as a Cool City and they get progressively more [...]
Last week I visited Capitol Hill as a member of Efficiency First to encourage support of the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) bill. This legislation has been presented within several energy bills with the goal of cutting tax payer’s expenses, cutting our dependence on foreign oil and creating new local jobs that cannot [...]
Day 1 of my lobbying adventure has been amazing. To a person, all the Efficiency First folks gathered here in DC share my passion for doing the right stuff, in the right way and out of the box thinking to make it really happen. Very inspiring to be among such a group!
Collectively today we met [...]