Electrify Your HomeArticles and resources to help you reduce energy use in your home and reduce the carbon impact of the energy you do use.
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In Vermont, emissions from thermal fuel use--heating our buildings—accounts for a third of total emissions. A bit more than HALF of that happens IN OUR HOMES. Our choices on how we heat our homes have a big impact.
To cut fossil fuels out of your home operations, follow this plan:
Read how a middle class family of three, living in an 80s ranch-style house, did it. "Electrifying everything has been neither expensive nor hard. It has basically meant replacing old, inefficient gas appliances at the end of their lives with new, energy efficient electric ones." Read an Efficiency Vermont energy geek's guide to shrinking your home's carbon footprint. |