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Home Energy Conservation Challenge 2009

By Solar energy | February 4, 2009

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Home Energy Conservation Challenge 2009

Welcome to the Home Energy Conservation Challenge! Here are the details.

Each week on Wednesday, I post simple steps of an energy conservation strategy. Please note the focus of these monthly posts will be on home energy conservation. Although energy conservation while driving, traveling, shopping, eating, etc, are important, our focal point will be energy used in the home.

Conventional energy sources used for the average American home are electricity, gas, and oil. Depending on where you live, your electric energy usually originates from the burning of fossil fuels: coal or oil. This energy is measured in kilowatt-hours. Natural gas is also measured in kilowatt-hours. Heating oil, propane, and kerosene are measured in gallons.

Energy use per home varies. For the purposes of this challenge, the size of your homes does not matter. You are never required to share your location, the size of your home, the amount of your utility bill, how many gallons of heating fuel (oil, propane, kerosene, etc) or how many kilowatt-hours you use.

If you voluntarily share this information, be assured there are NO CARBON FOOTPRINT POLICE here to wag a green thumb in your face or slap you with a “carbon offset” fee.

The purpose of the challenge is to help and encourage anyone who wants to learn energy conservation strategies, reduce their carbon footprint, or just reduce their monthly utility bill. Your progress can only be measured and compared to your past energy consumption, no one else’s.

Here’s how the challenge will work. I will post the weekly conservation challenge on the SimpleHomeSolarEnergy.com blog page. I will provide information, action steps, and when appropriate, resources. Information and action steps can be implemented quickly, usually in less than 30 minutes.

Participants are welcome to share their conservation frustrations, failures, successes, and questions in the comments. The idea is to share what we learn with one another, so we all get better at energy conservation.

Since the idea is to share what you learn, invite others to join us here. If you have your own blog, share what you are learning with your readers to help and encourage them. Then come back to the conservation challenge page and leave your web address in the comments. That way, the people you meet here can stop by and visit you.

Also remember to link back from your blog to our challenge here at Simple Home Solar Energy!

Of course, you are welcome to participate without interaction or conversation with others, but I hope you will join the conversation. You may know or discover something that would benefit the rest of us.

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