Costs / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...costs will be – one for calculating swimming pool energy costs here, and one for working out hot tub energy costs here. As most of you reading are not in Quebec where power is very cheap, the differential cost of electricity will have to be factored in. But these are still a useful point of comparison for some of the f...

...costs can be significant, and that will continue to grow just as the frequency and severity of extreme heat advisories grows.  The environmental impact and greenhouse gas emissions from home cooling systems is not limited to carbon emissions from the energy they use. Air conditioners and heat pumps contain fluoridated ...