DIY Energy Efficiency

Dated: November 18 2020

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I've written before about my strong support of Focus on Energy, the energy efficiency organization in Wisconsin. Funded by the state's utilities (not by the state itself), Focus on Energy provides incentives to make energy efficient home improveement choices, offers free energy efficiency packs to homeowners, and connects homeowners to trade "allys" who can make energy efficient home improvements. 

Now, understanding the wave of home improvement work happening during the pandemic, Focus is now offering DIY incentives to people doing their own insulation and air sealing upgrades. You can get up to $200 cash back from them for projects you complete yourself. Check it--and all the other great things they offer--here

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David Pausch

In November of 2000, I closed on my first house, a rough-around-the-edges 1922 colonial with lots of sun, not a lot of storage, and an enormous oak tree in its postage stamp-sized back yard. From the ....

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