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Many people are making energy-efficient improvements to their homes. Find out how these improvements may help you at tax time.

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How To Reduce Your Heating Bills This Winter

By Mark D. Tyrol, P.E.
Battic Door energy conservation Products

Imagine leaving a window open all winter long — the heat loss, cold drafts and wasted energy! If your home has a folding attic stair, a whole house fan or AC Return, a fireplace or a clothes dryer, that may be just what is occurring in your home every day.

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Made for Foothill Collaborative for Sustainability ( FoCuS ) , to help show how getting a home energy audit can save energy and money. Visit www.foothillsustainability.org for more information on how you can live more sustainable. And visit http://www.myspace.com/valdarmitt for band info and music.

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Practical things you can do right now to save money on energy cost in your home. Includes “Do It Yourself” projects, energy efficient products, and work you can have professionally done. Brought to you by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources at http://www.mass.gov/doer

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Without people resorting to more extreme measures such as solar heating or nuclear energy, could more be done to make houses and office building more energy-efficient? I am thinking in terms of considerations such as choices in building materials, structure and design of buildings, amount and type of insulation and lighting.

no, but if people knew what they could do to save energy they be much better off

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