I don’t want to cross the decent border of believing in a conspiracy theory, but when the oil business is threatened these days, it’s normal that oil magnates wouldn’t sit back and watch electric cars and alternative energy providers take their piece of meat from right in front of them.

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Some people check every possibility to reduce pollution, to make us live our lives in a clean and healthy environment. At a press conference about climate change solutions in Manchester, Tim Kruger, a former management consultant, announced that lime and salt water could stop or reverse CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere.

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In the United States today, 21% of all carbon emissions come from our homes.  Even more startling is that, on average, 40% of all energy consumed in our homes is wasted, but is still paid for every month.  Simply bled off into the atmosphere, we lose our heat in the winter and cooling in the summer.  Inefficient buildings not only harm our atmosphere because of all the energy required to run them, but also take a hefty chunk of change from us.  Happily, there is something to be done about it.  Enter One Block Off the Grid and their new model of collective bargaining for discounted home performance retrofits and big-ticket green home improvements.

One Block Off the Grid is the nation’s largest and fastest growing community purchasing group for residential solar, and was founded to cause the tipping point in its adoption.  Grouping people together to make bulk purchases has lowered the upfront cost, as well as streamlined the oftentimes-complicated process of solar installation.  This bulk-purchasing model is widely applicable, and in the process of engaging people on the topic of solar, it became clear that the power of community-based bulk purchasing could and should be applied to other services as well.  Home performance retrofitting, sometimes referred to as weatherization, was an obvious choice.

1BOG has partnered with its first non-PV integrator to offer Bay Area residents a steep discount on home performance retrofits.  Home performance retrofitting can help eliminate wasted energy, and make your home a more comfortable place to live.  Leaky windows and ducts mean that temperature control is more difficult than it needs to be.  Home performance retrofits solve this.  Mold and dampness make air quality indoors three to five times worse than air quality outdoors.  Home performance retrofits solve this.

By partnering with Sustainable Spaces, the Bay Area’s leading provider of these services, 1BOG is able to offer a 15% discount on all retrofitting work done.  Sure, home performance retrofitting isn’t free, but when you take into consideration that you can begin saving up to 40% on your energy bills (gas and electric), the value of this service becomes clear.  Regardless of age, location, shading, etc., chances are your home, your family, and your wallet can all benefit from a home performance retrofit through 1BOG and Sustainable Spaces.

For more information, visit 1BOG at: http://1bog.org/home-energy-efficiency-from-1bog/

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