Touting alternative energy sources
Southtown Star - Chicago,IL,USA
The company has installed a geothermal system at the Little Red Schoolhouse, the nature center near Willow Springs that is being renovated. …

Enviornmentally Friendly And Efficient Energy Options
Hamptons.com - Southampton,NY,USA
In order to mitigate the emissions given off by a fireplace or wood stove, Chaleff suggested purchasing a unit with a catalytic combustion system installed…

Geothermal provides most-efficient heating
MLive.com - MI,USA
You asked if a geothermal system would be practical to use as a backup system to your wood-burning unit. From a cost standpoint, the answer would be no…

There’s nothing like a fireplace to take chill off
Schenectady Gazette - Schenectady,NY,USA
“If you have a wood stove, you’re doing it for the heat.” He has lost customers to gas flames. The clean-burning fuel means no wood ash to clean out…

Environmentally friendly
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
According to a press release from the event’s sponsor, the Alternative Energy Resources Organization (AERO), average Montana heating bills can cost $1000 or…

Alternative heating sources becoming more popular
Munster Times - Munster,IN,USA
BY JOYCE RUSSELL Alternative home heating sources are becoming more popular as the cost of natural gas and electricity continue to climb…

Green house cuts bills
Kingston Daily Freeman - Kingston,NY,USA
Within the space is a pressure tank for the well, a pre-heat tank for the geothermal system, water heater and, among other elements, the ventilation system...

Geothermal heat pump the most efficient, cost-efficient way to …
MLive.com - MI,USA
As to your situation, you asked if a geothermal system would be practical to use as a backup system to your wood burning unit. From a cost standpoint the...

Homeowners tap earth for geothermal energy
Georgia Straight - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Geothermal energy, which comes from heat stored beneath Earth’s surface, is another form of clean energy. It can be tapped by homeowners through the use of...

Tapping The Earth For Energy
CBS News - New York,NY,USA
She installed a geothermal system - also called a ground-source heat pump, a water-source heat pump, or geo-exchange system - which recently started heating...

Owner of new Smuttynose Brewery has 'green' dreams
York Weekly - Portsmouth,NH,USA
"Its not very efficient because at the same time we are heating the building with a heater," Egelston said. He plans to take advantage of that heat and put...

Tapping the earth for home heating and cooling
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
This geothermal energy--and its offshoot enhanced geothermal--works only works in certain geographies and uses different technology. …

Inexpensive home heating tips
Capital News 9 - Albany,NY,USA
"If you open the door of your wood stove and you're getting smoke back in the room, that's an indication that you have weak draft. …

Warm up to geothermal heating-cooling system
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
Some 3000-square-foot houses in Minnesota have cut heating and cooling costs to $1000 a year using the geothermal system, he said...

NH High School Considers Wood-Pellet Boiler
Alternative Energy Retailer magazine - Oxford,CT,USA
The proposed wood-pellet boiler would not replace the existing natural gas heating system but would run alongside it as an alternative heating option in...

Family Installs Geothermal Heat
New Canaan News Review - New Canaan,CT,USA
"So the geothermal system view of where energy prices can go in the future. And secondly you're feeling the gratification of getting away from traditional...

Darien's new library is state-of-the-art, literally
Stamford Advocate - Stamford,CT,USA
Environmentally friendly features include "a geothermal system for heating and cooling, sensors to detect whether spaces are occupied," an underground...

Trees Water & People
EcoWorld.com - Fair Oaks,CA,USA
This program involves local residents in the production, installation and maintenance of solar heating systems in order to reduce exorbitantly high utility...

Del Tech students learn
Cape Gazette - Lewes,DE,USA
It certainly is a focus thanks to the partnership between the college’s Refrigeration, Heating & Air Conditioning Technology and Flexera, a solar heating...

Gift, Grant Create Sustainable Heating Solution at Schwartz …
Bowdoin News - Brunswick,ME,USA
With the support of a $5000 donation from the Bowdoin College Class of 2008 and a grant from the William Bingham Foundation, Bowdoin has installed its first...

Wood heat and frozen pipes
Schenectady Gazette - Schenectady,NY,USA
Generally, the family room wood stove is the workhorse in my sister’s house, but since it was cold and windy, she had both stoves going all night...

NC family aims to make a softer footprint
The Virginian-Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
Using the wood stove, the Heyders pay less than $100 monthly in utilities for their 3000-square-foot house. (Chris Curry | The Virginian-Pilot) An ...

D-11 digs savings on energy costs
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
The district also has six buildings with GeoExchange systems for heating and cooling. These systems use the earth's naturally constant temperature to heat ...

Solar home a long time rising
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
The room helps the active solar heating system heat the main home. David said the most effective set-up is a passive system like the one in their sun room ...

BOOMER JOURNEYS
Greene County Record - Stanardsville,VA,USA
Use only approved alternative heating methods. Make sure all equipment is in proper working order and that you follow directions for safe use ...

Cashing in on your yard to heat, cool your home
Plainfield Sun - Plainfield,IL,USA
For Mark and Denise Baker, a geothermal system was just one part of the building of the their "dream home" near Joliet. "From what we learned, ...

Fairbanks mulls wood stove trade-in plan
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
Mayor Jim Whitaker said the borough will consider a wood stove and outdoor boiler trade-in program to reduce inefficient home heating systems within the ...