Congratulate Ken Salazar for Doing the Right Thing!

We just want to acknowledge the wise decision by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to maintain the moratorium on new oil and gas drilling off the coast of Florida and on the East Coast from Maine to Florida.  Born and raised myself in Northern Virginia I spent many a summer at my aunts beach house on the Outer Banks. We would caravan with friends and family to just about every beach and campground from Cape Henlopen, Delaware to the Florida Keys.  The thought of watching those countless estuaries destroyed like those on the Gulf Coast was almost unbearable.  It looks like don't have to worry, for now anyway. If only there was a public bus system, like the one in Mexico, that could take you from one beach town to another for 20 pesos.  

51 Homes Retrofit in the 4th Quarter of 2010!

'This Efficient House' crews completed 51 projects in the last three months of 2010.  The majority of these were in the Fort Collins area, as this program has the highest conversion rate from home energy audit to improvement.  Thanks to all the folks who signed up for work last year.  We are thankful for all the wonderful feedback.  What we are hearing time and time again are things like, "finally, after 20 years of living in this house, it's warm" and "your crews were very friendly and knowledgeable" and "we want to thank you for your attention to detail and thorough clean up".  My personal favorite was from customers of ours who live in a historic farm house that said, "our propane bill has gone from $600 a month to just over $200".

It looks like we are saving our customers about 200 therms per heating season which corresponds to a reduction in green house gas emissions of roughly one ton per year.  We are proud of this accomplishment.  I guess a warm and cozy house doesn't hurt either.