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Brendan Gill of Plentyways contributed the following post to Green Talk  about the benefit of Energy Monitors to reduce your energy consumption.  I asked him to write about this topic since I, myself, grapple at which monitors to use.

The idea behind energy monitors is that you measure and graph the total amount of electricity that your home is using.  The problem today is that utility bills are too far removed from the actual appliances using electricity.  When we receive a bill for $200, we don’t know how much of that is down to the washing machine or the kettle, or what strategies would most effectively reduce our energy usage.  However, with an energy monitor we can view in realtime how much electricity we are using and learn about the energy use of individual appliances also.

With this knowledge it makes it a lot easier to start to reduce your energy usage.  Using an energy monitor you will notice huge peaks when you run the dishwasher, for example, so you will quickly…

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Fall is in the air and temperatures are dropping. Wood burning stoves that heat specific rooms are popular and are aggressively being marketed.
A reminder that there is a 30% upto $1500 Federal Tax Credit on Qualifying biomass fuel stoves or Wood Heat Stoves, Pellet Stoves, Fireplace Inserts.
Pellet stoves burn compressed sawdust and [...]

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1. Wood Burning Fireplaces
2. New 2009 Wind Power Tax Credit
3. Improving Fireplace Efficiency

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Author: Elaine Shannon
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/10/new-yorkers-focus-on-destr…

By Elaine Shannon

Natural gas may seem clean, but, it has a dark back story.

As Environmental Working Group has reported, gas producers out West have drilled thousands of wells with hydraulic fracturing or “fracking,” which involves breaking open gas-bearing formations by injecting them with water laced with toxic chemicals like benzene.

To make matters worse, gas drillers have been exempted from the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and permitted to conceal, as trade secrets, the identities of the chemicals they’re forcing underground.

Now gas producers are moving in to exploit the gas-rich Marcellus Shale, which stretches from New York state to West Virginia, and New York leaders are paying heed to warnings from EWG and others that fracking threatens New York’s water supply.

Last week, the New York Times editorial page called for barring gas drilling in the New York City watershed. The Times asserted:

The dangers are particularly acute in the Marcellus Shale, which,…

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