Monday - 19/10/2009

 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NEWS MEDIA CONTACT:                                  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  (202) 586-4940                                                           Monday, October 19, 2009  Vice President Biden Unveils Report Focused on Expanding Green Jobs And Energy Savings For Middle Class Families   - Vice President Biden today unveiled Recovery Through Retrofit, a report that builds on the foundation laid in the Recovery Act to [...]

Insight Vocabulary By Joseph Lstiburek Building Science Insight 024: last updated 2009/10/10 If we don’t call things by their right names we don’t really understand how things work.1 If we don’t understand how things work how can we prevent problems from happening? Or how can we fix problems when they do occur? And how can [...]

Legislation Introduced in Senate to Extend Energy Efficiency Tax Incentives and Create Incentives to Having Home Energy Ratings and Certification to Conduct Home Energy Ratings -The $2,000 tax credit for energy efficient homes will expire on January 1, 2010 unless extended by Congress . Bi-partisan legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate to extend [...]

 Northwest ENERGY STAR Celebrates 10,000th Home! Since the Program’s inception in 2004, Northwest ENERGY STAR builders in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington have collectively built 10,000 homes that have been qualified ENERGY STAR helping remove 58,130,000 lbs of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually. This is equivalent to: • Eliminating the emissions from 5,000 vehicles [...]