RE/MAX generated this cool infographic. It talks about 5 ideas for you to consider around your home. Check it out below. After you check it out below, you can see some of our efforts to be environmentally responsible: Saving Water Saving Electricity Saving Natural Gas RE/MAX in the Know: The Difference One Light Bulb Can […]

I wrote about saving water a while ago and it's now up for a review. Now the City of Minneapolis has online billing and historical usage data available. Anyone can go to their website and plug in an address and look up the water usage. They measure water usage in Units of water, where 1 […]

There are some easy ways to save electricity and some not so easy ways. Let's start with the easy ways first. The easiest (and cheapest) way  to save electricity is to unplug everything that you are not using at that moment. Many devices stay in "stand by" mode ready to be turned on (kind of like […]

Our solar system has been running about a month now. It is comprised of 11 PV panels, each with its own inverter. These inverters are made by Enphase Energy and have monitoring capability built-in. To monitor production, Enphase has a data gathering box called the Envoy. The Envoy goes out on the powerline network and […]

Everybody has heard the same tried and true methods of saving energy such as turn down the furnace, turn down the a/c, switch to CF bulbs But there are other unique ways to save energy. It all starts with seeing what the largest energy consumers in your house are. In order of greatest use, they are: furnace, a/c, […]

We've decided to go Solar, solar electric, that is. Otherwise known as Solar PV or Solar photovoltaic, this technology has been around for quite some time. Just recently though, there has been several factors that make solar pv very price attractive.