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Canadian Pays for Fire in Two Ways
Last October, an investment property that Woytek Stachowki owned in Edmonton, Alberta, was gutted by fire. That was bad enough, but a month later the other shoe dropped: He received…
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Insulating a Flat Roof
Tom Jordan is a painting contractor in northern New Jersey who's at his wit's end as he tries to figure out a remodeling job at his own home. It seems…
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Sliding Insulation Between Rafters From Above
It’s harder to weatherize an old Cape Cod house than it is to weatherize other types of houses. The second floor of a Cape Cod house has sloped ceilings, typically…
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Solar Jobs Declined for a Second Straight Year in 2018
Solar jobs in the U.S. dropped by 7,900 last year, a 3.2% decline, but prospects for growth this year are good, the Solar Foundation said in its annual snapshot of…
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Regulators Plan Rollback of Light Bulb Efficiency Rules
The Department of Energy has decided that certain light bulbs won't have to show improved energy efficiency after all. The department last week announced it intends to scrap plans for…
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Blockchain Has Come to the U.S. Real Estate Market
Late last year, a precedent-setting property sale in Vermont became the first real estate transaction in the United States to use blockchain, portending a new era in the sale of…
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Three Sources of Home Heating (Times Two)
It's wintertime in the Northern hemisphere, and that means we're heating our homes. The new year started off a bit on the warm side here in the Atlanta area, with…
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Buyer Beware: Dangerous Paint Strippers Are Still Being Sold
This post was co-authored by Mike Schade. In 2018, the Natural Resources Defense Council won a wave of commitments from 11 of North America’s largest retailers to ban the sale…
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One Way to Fix the ‘Duck Curve’
Mandalay Homes, based in Arizona, recently introduced the iON Series, a set of smart energy features that includes an extremely tight, well-insulated building shell, high-efficiency heating and cooling system, and…
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Insulating a Pole Barn
In its most basic form, a pole barn is a fairly simple agricultural building or storage structure with widely spaced posts rather than studs for framing. Back in the 1930s,…
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