ReCircle: Financing Home Solar Systems, Building Science Basics, Global Energy Consumption on the Rise, and more!

From Energy Circle:

Financing Home Solar, Part III: Purchasing, Financing, Incentives.

The final post in a series discussing the various options for installing a home solar system, this article discusses the possibility of purchasing your home solar installation outright, and the best resources to help you do so affordably.

Curated Links from the Web:

A Basic Lesson in Building Science.

Allison Bailes discusses a building science nightmare he came across in a condo building, and explains why an energy efficient building needs two things: a continuous air barrier that’s insulated and air sealed, and properly functioning combustion equipment. (From Energy Vanguard)

Global Energy Consumption: Why You Need to See It to Believe It.

One writer reflects on being confronted with the hard reality of increased global energy consumption while visiting China. The takeaway: it’s difficult to understand the difficulties we will soon face without witnessing firsthand the reality. (From Greener Ideal)

Why Seattle is Making the Move to LED Streetlights.

More and more cities are making the move to LED streetlights as they realize the slew of benefits that accompany them: lower energy bills, reduced maintenance cost, and greater reliability for improved safety. (From Treehugger)

Generating Electricity with Exercise? Yup.

Lisa Cohn of Real Energy Writers interviews Amber Maechler, a representative of Sports Art Fitness, about the company’s products that generate electricity with the energy used during exercise routines and feed it back into the grid. (From Real Energy Writers)

Can America Overcome its Split Personality on Energy?

Kate Gordon discusses our country’s split personalities on energy: one eager to innovate, the other relentlessly clinging to the status quo of fossil fuels and inefficiency. How can we reconcile the two? (From Climate Progress)

Another Energy Related Blog We Love:

Greener Ideal.

Greener Ideal is a lifestyle website that deals with all elements of living a more environmentally sustainable lifestyle: energy, food, buildings, politics and more.