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Do you want to conduct your own healthy home audit? Simply looking for more energy saving ideas? Check out the energy saving worksheet:
Healthy Homes Energy Saving Worksheet
Additional Resources:
Natural Resources Canada - EcoEnergy Retrofit and Rebate Information Thinking about making some changes at home to make it more efficient and save some money? Consider an energy audit to help prioritize those changes, and you may qualify for some government rebates along the way!
Natural Resources Canada - Air Leakage Control Document
Natural Resources Canada - Improving Window Efficiency Document
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Climate Change Central: C3 is an Alberta-based non-profit that encourages energy efficiency and the small-scale use of alternative energy sources by Albertans. We engage decision-makers – individuals, businesses and other organizations – to encourage new choices about energy use. C3 partners with government, municipalities and corporations to design and administer tailored programs to help people use less energy, save money and reduce GHG emissions. This is a great website to access information and research about energy efficient upgrades within your home.
Consumers Guide to Home Energy Savings (9th ed): Written by Jennifer Thorne Amann, Alex Wilson and Katie Ackerly, this comprehensive book focuses on saving energy in the home. It's informative and easy to use. It's available through New Society Publishers.
Lehman's Non-Electric Catalogue: this amazing catalogue is a complete listing of non-electric household appliances and housewares, toys, yard and garden tools, and more. Flipping through a Lehman's catalogue is like taking a trip back through time.
Video:
ob Hopkins: Transition to a world without oil
Rob Hopkins: Transition to a world without oil
H2oil Animated Sequences...the water cost of recovering oil from Alberta's oil sands
H2oil animated sequences from Dale Hayward on Vimeo.
