Many home owners spend hundreds of dollars to hire a professional energy auditor to conduct a thorough inspection of their home’s energy efficiency and to recommend ways of improving it, which results in better energy usage, and provides health benefits and greater financial savings. Part of the Green Guru Guides series of books.

,Do-It-Yourself Home Energy Audits offers complete details on assessing home energy efficiency. It describes simple no- and low-cost measures that can be implemented to identify problems, and that will dramatically increase livability, efficiency, and expendable income each and every year.  Whether the reader is moving into a brand new or existing home, or is trying to make a current residence more energy efficient, the practical tips and projects in this book will make it easy to be green.

In detail, the book illustrates how to: 

• Implement improvements for lighting, heating, electricity, insulation, and water use
• Identify and modify the most costly appliances in your home
• Reduce carbon emissions
• Develop a personal energy plan
• Understand ratings, standards, and conversions
• Fund your green home improvement projects and take advantage of grants, rebates, and tax incentives, and much more.

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This is a guest post from The Green Living Guy , Seth Leitman. Seth is the Editor of the McGraw-Hill, TAB Green Guru Guides. Seth is also an Author, Radio Host, Reporter, Writer and a Environmental Consultant on green living. The Green Living Guy writes about green living, green lighting, the green guru guides and more. Seth's books range from:

• Build Your Own Electric Vehicle by Bob Brant and Seth Leitman
• Build Your Own Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle by Seth Leitman
• Build Your Own Electric Motorcycle by Carl Vogel
• Green Lighting by Seth Leitman, Brian Clark Howard and Bill Brinsky
• Solar Power For Your Home by David Findley
• Renewable Energies For Your Home by Russel Gehrke
• Do-it-Yourself Home Energy Audits by David Findley
• and more green living books to follow.

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A while back at a press business expo conference I attended, there was this company LeakAlertor that was talking about losing money with your toilet. I had to hear about this one.. They told me that the flapper on my toilet deteriorates and allows water to fall down the whole to increase the demand for water. No good since I have crazy water taxes where I live in Briarcliff. Anyway, this LeakAlertor through electronics is a constant monitor for my toilet to determine water leakage. So far so good.

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As many of you know, I am Consulting Series Editor to McGraw-Hill on the Green Guru Guides. I have started an early launch of my book Green Lighting to kick off my book tour. Yup, seven states and a lot of sites. So my original story is on my site The Green Living Guy©. However, here is the most important point. There is a party tomorrow in NYC at the Hiro Ballroom for Green Lighting. I decided to kick off my Green Lighting and Green Guru Guides book tour at an event with Rock the Reactors on July 14th at the Hiro Ballroom in Manhattan. It symbolizes the essence of the book. If we go green with our lighting we will save energy at such a level that we would not need coal, nuclear or natural gas powerplants. Light emitting diodes (LED) like the Endura LED from Philips Lighting provide green solutions. It is so amazing to the industry that, like Mother Earth, Philips is giving us this bulb as the start of a global retrofit. For us, when photographer Courtney Dailey shot this picture with the amazing May Lindstrom whom I have known forever, it's an inspiration. Copyright 2010. Photographer, Courtney Dailey, McGraw-Hill Professional Royal Philips Electronics unveiled its 12 watt EnduraLED 60bulb a few weeks ago, the industry's first LED replacement for a 60 watt incandescent light bulb. They will be in stores in the fall. Shown for the first time here at the Lightfair International tradeshow, it marks an important breakthrough in the use of LED lighting technology in everyday applications. Consumers will now have an LED alternative to the most commonly used incandescent bulb, which will deliver up to 80% energy savings and last 25 times longer than its century-old predecessor. Recently, the state of Vermont voted not to renew Entergy's license to operate the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. On April 2nd, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation followed suit by denying Entergy a new water permit for Indian Point.

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