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You can reduce your home’s energy consumption without sacrificing comfort, with the twin benefits of lowering environmental impact and utility expenses.
Your household’s greatest opportunities
...for energy savings depend on the design of your home and your current usage/type of heating, cooling, appliances, and lighting devices. In addition, everything that one buys, uses and throws away has energy consumption (‘embodied energy’) involved in its lifecycle (the production, packaging, delivery, use and disposal) of the product. See As Consumers for additional discussion of this.
Several Lexington residents who made some environment-friendly changes were featured in a recent Herald-Leader article. Click here to read about their examples. Right: Picture of architect Dick Levine's house at Raven Run. Click on the picture to learn more at the Center for Sustainable Cities' website. Green building is already going on in Kentucky. Click here to read a recent Herald-Leader article about the Green Build program. |  |
