Community activists and energy efficiency
proponents hope a new funding model may provide a long term way around obstacles to homeowners improving their property.
Turning off lights, turning down the heat and
buying with an eye toward energy efficiency is saving New York more than $3.1 million so far this fiscal year.
Over
the weekend, a group of volunteers in central Vermont got caked with dust and sweat as they worked to make
an elementary school more energy efficient. The
project will cut fuel oil use by about 30 percent.