Archive for June, 2007

Saving Money With Solar Landscaping

Want to save $100 to $250 a year in energy costs?
Well, it’s easy to do. Simply plant three trees. Placed in the Right spot, these trees can provide sufficient shade to reduce your utility bill.
Actually, carefully positioned trees can save you up to 25 percent of a household’s energy consumption for heating and cooling. The […]

Planting Trees Means Big Energy Savings

The National Academy of Sciences estimates that urban America has 100 million spaces where trees could be planted. It goes on to say that filling these spaces with trees and lightening the color of dark, urban surfaces would result in annual energy savings of 50 billion kWh - 25 percent of the 200 billion kWh […]