Home Energy Audits Most People use a home inspector when buying a home but, ordinary home inspectors are all about what is visible and easily accessible. Home Inspectors usually don’t use the high tech equipment that is used in a home Thermal home energy audit. Thermal scans go beyond what an ordinary inspection covers by verifying what you can’t see. …

Baby it’s cold outside, but it’s getting expensive to turn up that oil furnace. More and more home owners are turning to alternate sources of heating. People are turning to firewood, electric heaters, and gas fireplaces for added warmth, but these heat sources present a new set of cautions for fire prevention. Electric heaters or electric fireplace: Make sure you …

Green-tech execs discuss the benefits of biofuel At the GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Susan Mac Cormac of Morrison & Foerster moderates a panel discussion about the benefits and risks of biofuel. Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures says that biofuel solutions could be cheaper than $50-a-barrel oil in 10 years if the venture capital community backs emerging technologies and starts …