Great article in the Elmhurst Press today about Elmhurst Cool Cities Coalition’s effort to make it easier to make older Elmhurst homes more energy efficient. Whether you live in Elmhurst or not, great background on why it makes sense to pay attention to the comfort and efficiency of your home today.
For a step-by-step overview of [...]
The recently published Elmhurst Energy & Emissions Profile surprised me a bit. I expected Elmhurst homes to be more in line with the rest of DuPage County. Instead, it shows we use 18% more natural gas than other DuPage homes and 25% more electricity than other Chicagoland homes.
Based on the averages it looks like the [...]
If you read this blog regularly, you are aware of the many excellent tax credits available to current and future homeowners right now. Now, here’s my secret to linking them all together for homes in and around Elmhurst. You have to get the sequence and dates just right to pull it off!
Earn the $8000 tax [...]
Two recent news articles covered plans for two local cities to help residents go green. The first covered a current program in Naperville. The Home Energy Savings Program is funded in part by Federal stimulus package money. The program aims to help 350 homes belonging to residents 55 and older become more energy efficient. The [...]
Good stuff here! A recap of Obama’s “Insulation is Sexy” speech from a Home Depot in DC last month. Quick info on how the proposed HOME STAR program will cut American energy use, save homeowners money, make our homes more cozy, create jobs and cut our use of foreign oil. What’s not to like? Plus [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Since December I’ve been focusing on helping clients with energy efficiency in their homes. Two things ring out loud and clear…first, demand for homes with good utility bills and nice features is going be huge once the market comes back. Second, there’s so much chatter about energy efficiency right now, that no one really knows [...]
Had the chance to meet with Dennis Rodkin of “Deal Estate”/Chicago Magazine fame earlier in the month. He came out to my Ready, Set, Green Home listing in Wheaton to see my new program in action. We had a really fun chat about what I’m working on and the huge opportunity I see [...]