Home Energy Efficiency

Resources in this category:

Consumer Energy Information - Energy Information for Your Home
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/consumer/your_home/

This U.S. Department of Energy site offers an index to articles about products and ways to save energy in your home.

Cooling Your Home: Don't Sweat It
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt091.shtm

Article published by the US Federal Trade Commission offering information and advice for increasing the energy efficiency of your home.

ENERGY STAR
http://www.energystar.gov/

"ENERGY STAR is a government-backed program helping businesses and individuals protect the environment through superior energy efficiency." Offers advice to homeowners and consumers about products, new homes, and home improvement.

Home Energy Saver
http://hes.lbl.gov/

"The Home Energy Saver was the first Internet-based tool for calculating energy use in residential buildings...By changing one or more features of the modeled home, users can estimate how much energy and money can be saved and how much pollution prevented by implementing energy-efficiency improvements." Includes a glossary and links to other sources of information about products, construction standards, and home building.

House Committee on Energy and Commerce
http://energycommerce.house.gov/

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest legislative standing committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. Its jurisdictions include biomedical research and development, consumer affairs and protection, health, interstate and foreign commerce, energy resource exploration, pricing, production, and regulation, energy conservation, power generation, nuclear energy, travel and tourism, and interstate and foreign communications.

PATH.Net
http://www.pathnet.org/

"The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing is a public-private initiative that seeks to speed the creation and widespread use of advanced technologies to radically improve the quality, durability, energy efficiency, environmental performance, and affordability of America's housing." Includes resources for homeowners interested in these goals.

Re-Nest
http://www.re-nest.com/

How can we make our homes greener? Re-Nest supplies some creative and non-expensive ideas that combine home decor with green living.

Sustainable Building Sources
http://www.greenbuilder.com/general/BuildingSources.html

Includes links to a green building professional directory, sustainable building sourcebook, discussion forums, as well as related associations and magazines.

The Tangled Nest
http://thetanglednest.com/

Writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt draws on her own experiences to experiment with ways to achieve a sustainable and artful urban home through "projects, musings, news, reviews, adventures and misadventures."