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Is your home especially cold in the winter and unbearably hot in the summer?

Maybe it needs an energy makeover.

Thanks to changes in the tax law, the federal government will help pay the cost of making your home more energy efficient.

You can save as much as $1,500 in taxes by installing certain energy-saving products in your home in 2009 and 2010.

For example, you could install new skylights, ceiling fans, a furnace, or energy efficient doors and windows.

So how does this work?

The government gives you a tax credit worth 30 percent of what you spend on certain products. If you spend $5,000 on new windows, for example, youd qualify for the full $1,500 credit. And that credit reduces your tax bill or increases your refund dollar for dollar.

Think of it this way: the government is giving you money to help you save energy. And that helps you save money, too.

There are just a few simple rules:

The products you buy must meet certain energy-saving standards. Go to energystar.gov for more information.

Also, the improvement must be to your main home, not a rental or vacation home.

Finally, the $1,500 limit is for 2009 and 2010 combined, NOT per year.

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4EverGreen13 - TV show - GreenHomeRemodeling, GreenTaxDeductions, GreenMortgages, GreenBuildingSciences
Green Energy Remodeling for High Performance Homes.

World-Class Green Building Science EXPERTS !
USGBC & LEED

Solar Panels, Wind Turbines, Solar Hot Water.

U.S. Government FORMS for every Tax credit,
tax deduction, tax deferrment, and out-right
CASH REBATE.

$30,000.00 Alternative Energy Hardware
$20,000.00 100% deductable
$10,000.00 $50.00 per month mortgage payment
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- $200.00 Utility bill Per month X 30 years

ZEH(+)KIT built homes:
ZEH = Zero Energy Home
(+) = More energy than consumed
KIT = Pre-Cut / Site Built
2,000sq.ft/Basement/Pool/$150,000.00
NO HAVAC / NO UTILITY BILL

Carbon Foot Print Calculators.

Investment FUNDS for GREEN TECHOLOGIES.

GreenBuildingSciences, GreenHomeRemodeling, GreenTaxDeductions, GreenMortgages

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4EverGreen13 - TV show - Green Home Remodeling, Green Tax Deductions, Green Mortgages, Green Building Sciences
Green Energy Remodeling for High Performance Homes.

World-Class Green Building Science EXPERTS !
USGBC & LEED

Solar Panels, Wind Turbines, Solar Hot Water.

U.S. Government FORMS for every Tax credit,
tax deduction, tax deferrment, and out-right
CASH REBATE.

$30,000.00 Alternative Energy Hardware
$20,000.00 100% deductable
$10,000.00 $50.00 per month mortgage payment
———-
- $200.00 Utility bill Per month X 30 years

ZEH(+)KIT built homes:
ZEH = Zero Energy Home
(+) = More energy than consumed
KIT = Pre-Cut / Site Built
2,000sq.ft/Basement/Pool/$150,000.00
NO HAVAC / NO UTILITY BILL

Carbon Foot Print Calculators.

Investment FUNDS for GREEN TECHOLOGIES.

Green Building Sciences, Green Home Remodeling, Green Tax Deductions, Green Mortgages

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Rep. Lummis offers her amendment to Obama’s budget proposal to prevent the enactment of a cap and tax policy. Every family in Wyoming will be directly impacted by the proposed cap and tax. If you have electricity in your home or in your office, or drive a car, or heat your home, you will be paying the new carbon tax. Numerous studies conducted by universities, industry groups, and government agencies all agree that cap and trade would dramatically increase energy prices and hurt the economy. …

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How to Build a Solar Panel - DIY Home Solar Power

Use of solar panels to harness solar power as an alternative source of energy is becoming increasingly popular not only in industries but in homes too, as we end up saving quite a bit of money and energy. Installing solar panels using contractors is very expensive, but if you learn how to build a solar panel yourself, you can cut that cost to almost nothing. Learning how to build a solar panel is quite easy.

Building a solar panel

Building a solar panel that is effective in capturing the solar energy involves a lot or research. And building it at home does not need any professional expertise. All you need is a DIY kit which has a step by step instruction of how to build a solar panel. But the important concern is to find a method of building your own panels that is cost effective.

Some of the main components that are included in a typical how to build a solar panel kit are solar cells, solder, a soldering iron, flux and tabbing. By doing it yourself you are building your own residential solar power system thereby producing ‘green energy’ that is eco-friendly.

A collection of solar cells is required to build a solar panel. Each cell produces a small amount of electricity but put together they can generate enough electricity for household needs. One thing to consider is that the panels should always face the sun. For this you can install a solar tracking device.

By building a solar system yourself you get firsthand knowledge of its components and how the system works. You can adapt and expand your system when you build a solar panel yourself, as you will be familiar with its design.

Conversion of energy by building solar panels is completely free of pollutants and has no negative impact on the environment. Solar electric system requires very little maintenance and need only sunlight for fuel. By building a solar panel you are actually building a pollution free alternative energy generator.

You can also benefit from the government tax credits when you build a solar panel to generate alternate energy for your home. Knowledge of how to build a solar panel for generating electricity gives you an opportunity to get out of the grid.

You can find out more about DIY Home Solar Panels by visiting Cheap Solar Panels Today!
How to Build a Solar Panel - DIY Home Solar Power

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Some of the biggest opportunities for energy improvements occur in the building trades.

This program presents an overview of job opportunities in this booming industry where there is a high demand for trained professionals, designers, and workers to help improve the efficiency of commercial and residential buildings through better design of new buildings and smart improvements to existing structures.

Making our homes and offices more energy efficient is an enormous challenge, but the potential cost savings and benefits for the environment are significant. Government mandates, tax credits, and rebates are adding additional incentives. A job in a green construction trade can enable a young person, with a minimal amount of training, to get a foot in the door of the green economy.

Jobs profiled in this program include:
Solar Installer, Lighting Technician, Energy Auditor. Also interviewed are Stephanie Stone and Dr. Frank Alameda of the California Academy of Sciences who discuss some of the key innovations in green buildings developed by architects and engineers. 20 minutes, color.

Grade Levels: 7 to Adult

direct link to purchase the DVD:

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The Repo man is on a mission to Doctor Dooms house to take his power

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McCain and Sarah Palin’s attack against Obama for advocating “spreading the wealth” and for “socialism” and for pronouncing the civil rights revolution a “tragedy” because it didn’t deal with the distribution of wealth is aimed ultimately at white working class undecided voters who would construe “spreading the wealth” as giving their money to blacks. It’s the latest version of Reagan’s “welfare queen” argument from 1980. It if it works, it won’t be because most white Americans actually oppose a progressive income tax, but because they fear that Obama will inordinately favor blacks over them. I don’t doubt that this argument will have some effect, but I suspect it’s too late and that worries about McCain and Republican handling of the economy will overshadow these concerns.
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/29/more-cork-popping.aspx
Not surprisingly, the “debate” centered around the false premise that Obama’s tax cuts are actually welfare. I say that’s false because - as I pointed out on the show - everyone pays some form of taxes, whether it’s income, property, sales or payroll taxes. When you take all those taxes together, most working- and middle-class Americans pay a higher effective tax rate than the Warren Buffetts of the world (as Warren Buffett, by the way, readily acknowledges). So Obama’s plan to pass refundable income tax credits is only a handout if you look exclusively at one slice of taxes - in this case, income taxes. But in the overall tax scheme, those tax credits are aimed at better equalizing the tax structure so as to diminish the gap between Warren Buffett’s very low effective tax rate and Joe Sixpack’s high effective tax rate. Only in the asylums of Fox News and Republican Party politics is reducing that effective tax rate gap billed as theft from the rich to finance “welfare.”

This concept of effective tax rates (ie. the tax rate actually paid and enforced) is key to understanding the most telling part of this Fox News discussion - the part at the end where former Bush-Cheney spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck parrots McCain campaign talking points about America supposedly having a very high corporate tax rate in relation to the rest of the world. This, says Dyck and fellow Republicans, is driving businesses to move offshore.

It sounds like a credible storyline, especially considering that officially, our corporate tax rate is somewhere between 35 and 39 percent. But, as always, the devil is in the details.

To know how high - or low - the effective tax rate is, you have to go beneath the top-line rate and account for all the loopholes, subsidies and write-offs - and the way to do that is by looking at corporate tax revenues as a percentage of a country’s GDP. That way, you know how much corporations are actually paying as a share of your overall economy - in other words, you know the real corporate tax rate, not the fake one advertised by top-line numbers. And when you look at America’s tax structure through this lens, you see that even the Bush Treasury Department admits we have the second lowest effective corporate tax rate in the industrialized world (see page 42 of this report).

Indeed, this explains the dissonance between Republican claims of “highest corporate income tax rate in the world” and the recent Government Accountability report showing that most corporations pay no corporate income taxes at all. The latter is the truth - most corporations don’t pay any taxes because of loopholes, writeoffs and subsidies that allow them to effectively reduce that 35 percent corporate tax rate to zero. In fact, many profitable corporations actually collect tax rebates. But as I told Fox News, we don’t hear criticism of that kind of “corporate welfare” from the Republican mouthpieces deriding Obama’s middle-class tax cuts as welfare.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/memo-to-fox-news-the-gop_b_136557.html

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View these LEED Certified Platinum energy efficient homes located just minutes from downtown and the Railyard area in Santa Fe! These homes qualify for both the New Mexico state and federal energy tax credits, which are sizable.

These energy efficient homes integrate environmentally sustainable building designs — including passive solar, radiant floor heating, and xeriscaping.

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