Rebates won't last forever...
Kick off home improvement season by air sealing your home and take advantage of Efficiency Maine's $600 rebate for making your home more energy efficient.The rebate program expires soon, and...
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The Evergreen Family
Look at Evergreen Home Performance!Our incredible team of twenty-two took time away from wet basements, hot attics, audit reports, phone calls, bookkeeping, and strategic planning to spend a morning...
View ArticleHappy Mother's Day!
This Mother's Day, invest in your family's comfort with a FREE energy efficiency consult from Evergreen Home Performance. Our infrared analysis will identify the nooks, crannies, and uninsulated...
View ArticleBraving Basements, Attics - and Oceans
You might think that dank basements and hot attics would provide enough excitement for Energy Advisor Jessie Davis. You'd be wrong.Jessie is training for a 3-mile ocean swim to Islesboro, one of...
View ArticleNothing Lost is Everyone's Gain: NIST Net Zero Energy House
There are a lot of houses out there, and a lot of them are inefficient, old, and uncomfortable – especially in Maine. From a resource management perspective, it makes sense to retrofit those homes...
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Another Effective Communicator
Bruce Merryman, Evergreen’s newest Production Manager, graduated from a Dale Carnegie course in Effective Communication last night, and President Richard Burbank (l) and General Manager Brian Schortz...
View ArticleHappy June!
What is there to say about June?It's either 90 degrees or cold and rainy, and three days into the month, we've already managed both. Since there's no cutesy weather saying (no in like a lion, out like...
View ArticleBehavioral Science Can Lower Your Energy bill
Entreaties to save money, save the planet, or be a good citizen may not inspire people to conserve energy, but positive peer pressure sure does. In this TED talk, Alex Laskey, founder and president of...
View ArticleBefore You Pre-Buy...
The kids aren’t even out of school yet, and next winter’s oil prices are already on everyone’s minds. That's because local oil companies are rolling out their budget plans for next winter’s heating...
View ArticleArt, Energy Efficiency, and the Economy
We’re abuzz with the news of a new neighbor. The Center for Maine Contemporary Art announced last week that it’s moving to downtown Rockland – a stone’s throw from the Strand Theater and the Farnsworth...
View ArticleWhat’s Air Sealing Anyway?
Sometimes building science just isn’t fair. It doesn’t care how much insulation you buy, or even how hard you work installing it. Nooooo, the laws of physics insist that your house is a system, and...
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Trek Across Maine - again!
For some, Father’s Day means a new tie and a barbeque on the back deck. For Nate Spectre, his son Peter, and more than 2000 other cyclists, it means the Trek Across Maine.The annual 3-day, 180-mile...
View ArticleNext Step: Infrared Training Center
Thanks to a Next Step Maine Scholarship from the Maine Development Foundation, Energy Advisor Ham Niles will study advanced thermography at the Infrared Training Center in Boston in July. Ham received...
View ArticleClimate Change Address Today
President Barack Obama makes an important address on climate change this afternoon, following up on the environmental emphasis of his second inaugural address. In a video announcement Saturday, Obama...
View ArticleFinancial Planning with your Energy Advisor
Energy efficiency has been all over the news lately, but among all the headlines, this line made us sit up and take notice:“Energy efficiency investments can have returns so handsome they will rival...
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U.S. is More Energy Efficient, Reports ACEEE – but Not Enough
While “it could be worse” is hardly a ringing endorsement of energy efficiency across the U.S. economy, it, well, could be worse. ACEEE’s first annual assessment of 15 national indicators showed that...
View ArticleHome Performance 101
One of the occupational hazards of building-science-geekery is the professional crush. You know: that admiration for a colleague's blog post, or Facebook campaign, or video that makes you want to sit...
View ArticleElder Star
For more than twenty years, Energy Star labels have helped us identify the most energy efficient appliances and products on the market. In that time, families and businesses have realized an estimated...
View ArticleThe Uninsulated Home
When it comes to insulation, we know what we're talking about. We know why cellulose outperforms fiberglass, and why the spray foam we recommend for your basement doesn't make sense in your attic. We...
View ArticleKitchen Tour features Energy Efficient Home
One of 8 homes on Merryspring's annual Kitchen Tour boasts more than an enlarged, custom kitchen. The 1880s farmhouse got an energy efficiency upgrade from Evergreen this year, including basement...
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