Green Homes: Beat the Heat Efficiently

These days, we hear more and more about the rising costs associated with keeping one's home cool. While prices can be high for individuals living in all parts of the world, they may be especially costly for those living in climates that feature particularly warm summer months. Individuals who are interested in lowering their energy costs may want to consider a move towards more efficient cooling systems. In addition to lowering financial obligations, energy efficient cooling systems can also reduce one's "carbon footprint." Home owners who are interested in energy efficient cooling systems can have a number of available options, including energy efficient landscaping, air conditioner maximization, and energy efficient air conditioners. In addition, when used properly, window treatments and ceiling fans can effectively cool even the largest homes.

Landscaping for a Cooler Home

• Landscaping - Describes how landscaping can be an effective way to promote cooler home temperatures.
• Energy Tips: Energy Conservation Landscaping: Summer Cooling - Tips and recommendations for individuals interested in cooling their homes with landscaping.
• Landscaping for Energy Efficiency - Describes methods that can be used when landscaping to promote cooler home temperatures.
• Energy-Efficient Landscaping Tips - Discusses landscaping methods to decrease cooling costs in the summer.
• Cool Your House with Smart Landscaping - Shows how strategically placed trees and shrubs can reducing cooling costs.
• Landscaping to Reduce the Energy Used in Cooling Buildings - Describes how smart landscaping can reduce cooling costs in a variety of settings.
• Beneficial Landscaping - Discusses benefits associated with smart landscaping, including reduced cooling costs.
• Energy Saving Landscapes - Identifies methods of reducing cooling costs in the summer through smart landscaping.
• Summer Cooling Tips - Suggestions for landscaping to produce cooler home temperatures.

Tips and Best Practices for Getting the Most out of Your Air Conditioner

• Maximize Your Cool - Describes how to use the air conditioner efficiently to maximize home temperatures.
• Maximize Air Conditioning to Reduce Energy Spending - Tips and recommendations for maximizing the results of the air conditioner.
• Guide to Cooling Your Home - Suggestions that can promote the efficiency of an air conditioner, resulting in improved cooling.
• Air Conditioning Tips can Help Maximize Cooling on a Budget - Identifies effective ways to improve the functionality of an air conditioner.
• Air Conditioning - Describes methods that can be used by individuals interested in maximizing the efficiency of their air conditioner.
• Climate Friendly Check-List - Identifies benefits associated with efficient air conditioning.
• Try These Tips to Maximize Air Conditioning - Suggestions to improve the effects of a home air conditioner.

Energy Efficient Air Conditioners

• Development of High Efficiency Air Conditioner Condenser Fans - Provides information about the development of a new tool designed to improve air conditioner efficiency.
• Air Conditioning, Central - Describes a type of energy efficient air conditioner that can significantly reduce home cooling costs.
• Energy Efficient Air Conditioning - Identifies the research behind energy efficient air conditioning.
• Con Ed Offers Rebate for Buying Energy Efficient Air Conditioners - Discusses additional benefits obtained by purchasing an energy efficient air conditioner.
• Boosting Energy Efficiency - Describes research into the field of energy efficiency in various countries around the world.
• An Energy Efficient Air Conditioner - Information about the research and development of an energy efficient air conditioner.
• Saving Energy and Money - Discusses how an energy efficient air conditioner can result in significant financial savings.
• Energy-Saving Guide - Tips and suggestions to ensuring optimal results when it comes to the purchase of an energy efficient air conditioner.
• Fact Sheet: Air Conditioner Efficiency Standards: SEER 13 vs. SEER 12 - Information about the efficiency of specific air conditioners.

Window Treatments

• Tips for Energy Saving Window Coverings - Tips and suggestions when using window coverings to promote cooler temperatures.
• Window Treatments Combine Energy Efficiency with Style - Discusses the use of window coverings to lower cooling costs.
• Energy Saving Window Treatments - Information about the use of window treatments to promote home cooling.
• Energy Efficient Window Treatments - Discusses how the right window treatment can result in significant financial savings.
• Environmentally Friendly Window Covering Guide - Tips and suggestions when buying energy efficient window coverings.
• Save Money with Energy Efficient Window Coverings - Discusses how energy efficient window coverings can result in significant financial savings.

Best Practices for Using Fans

• Ceiling Fans: A Simple Cooling Method - Describes how ceiling fans can be effective in cooling when used properly.
• Energy Efficient Homes: Ceiling Fans - Discusses the use of ceiling fans for efficiently cooling homes.
• Save Energy and Stay Cool with Fans - States that fans can be an effective and efficient way to promote a cool house.
• Ceiling Fans - Describes how to choose a ceiling fan to promote overall home cooling.
• Fan-tastic! - Tips and recommendations for choosing a fan that can promote greater energy efficiency.
• Cooling Tips - Suggestions to enhance the work of a ceiling fan.
• Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy - Discusses how a fan can be used to lower energy costs.

By Rae Eriksen