The Unclear Origins of Oil
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Excerpted from a post titled "The Unclear Origins of Oil" on Kevin Kelly's CT2 (Conceptual Trends and Current Topics) blog:
Fuel-Cost Calculator
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Excerpts from a BuildingGreen press release that's being distributed today:
Some heating fuels that used to be quite affordable, such as heating oil, have risen in price dramatically, making competing energy sources such as electricity relatively less expensive.
Top 10 Actions to Contain Energy Costs
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There are a number of easy ways to weatherize your home for the winter and help reduce energy costs.
It seems odd to be thinking about next winter's heating already, but a lot of us are. While the pre-buy contracts for heating oil last winter were for about $2.25 per gallon, it looks like the price this coming winter will be double that, and local companies aren't even offering pre-buys. So you could be paying even more come January or February. Filling a 275-gallon oil tank today costs over a thousand dollars. It's scary.
BuildingGreen Bulletin: Calculating Carbon for Buildings - July EBN
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Read the current bulletinCongressional Briefing on Straw-Bale Construction
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On June 20, a briefing about straw-bale construction organized by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) was held in the Russell Senate Office Building. Laura Bartels (President of GreenWeaver Inc. and member of the Builders Without Borders Building Team), Sandy Wiggins (immediate past Chairman of the Board of the USGBC), Bob Gough (Secretary of t
What Goes Around Comes Around
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In researching Forbo's Marmoleum Composition Tile (MCT) for the July issue of EBN, I found out that the product wasn't actually all that new. We had first covered the idea of it in 1998:
"Forbo Industries also has some exciting new developments. The company is introducing a new linoleum tile this December that will be thinner (2.0 mm) and priced to compete more directly with VCT. This 13" by 13" (330 mm x 330 mm) tile is being targeted specifically toward K-12 schools." (EBN Vol.
"The Anti-American Non-Energy Bill"
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Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, swings and swings and swings and misses the point entirely. As do most of the comments — over 2,200 of them so far. So much darkness.
The Carbon Calculator Morass
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In the process of looking into carbon calculators for buildings as a behind-the-scenes assistant for the EBN feature article "Counting Carbon: Understanding Carbon Footprints of Buildings," I took a short detour into the wider carbon calculator world.