Save Money and Stay Comfortable: St. Louis Park

Want to learn more about easy ways to save money and stay comfortable in your home?  Confused and looking for answers about energy efficiency and conservation, but don’t feel like going outside where it is cold, snowy and scary?  No worries!  Make yourself a bowl of steaming hot soup, settle back in your Snuggie™ and [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving from the Energy Challenge!

From everyone on the Energy Challenge team, we hope your Thanksgiving is full of food, family, friends and relatively easy travel.  We’re taking a holiday break and will be back to posting next week!

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400th Blog Post!

Happy Friday, indeed.  I can’t believe this is the 400th post for the Minnesota Energy Challenge blog! We talk about a lot of different things on this blog – local events, new gadgets and gizmos that can help you save energy in your home, funny videos and, of course, all the ways that we [...]

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Welcome to Intern Emily!

Emily will be interning with the Energy Challenge this fall and will be taking over some blogging duties.  Say hi!
Hello everyone!  My name is Emily, and I’m the new intern at the CEE.  I’m working with Neely, your dedicated coordinator and blogger, on making the MN Energy Challenge more awesome than it already is.  I [...]

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Challenge Stats!

I love these little milestones.  As of this morning, Minnesota Energy Challenge memebers are pledging to save over 160 million pounds of carbon dioxide pollution annually – the equivalent electricity use of over 10,000 homes for a year! Some households are replacing light bulbs, some are insulating their attics, others are replacing old furnaces and [...]

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Got widgets?

What are widgets, you ask?
Widgets are awesome. You see, we’ve created these fun little web tools that help you spread the good word about the Minnesota Energy Challenge! You can put them on blogs and websites to show off that your household is part of the Minnesota Energy Challenge and to inspire people to follow [...]

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Ask the Experts!

It’s been a while, so here’s a brand new “Ask the Experts”!
I have a daughter who lives in Lake Elmo and pays $400/mo to heat her home and it is about 1200 SF. They had an energy audit which was not very useful. It appears [...]

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Over 23,000 Households Pledging!

I love hitting these milestones.  There are now over 23,000 Minnesota households from Duluth to Rochester pledging to improve their homes, AND save energy and money with the Minnesota Energy Challenge!  Some live in apartments, some live in condos, some own homes; some are seniors with limited income, some are families with small children, some [...]

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Challenge Stats

I do a lot of outreach to schools and I’ve spoken to students from kindergarden to college about the importance of taking action to reduce energy use.  A big problem can be that our energy use seems so small compared to everything that’s going on in the world.  That’s why the Minnesota Energy Challenge keeps [...]

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Over 1,000 in 23 days!

What a month this has been for the Minnesota Energy Challenge!  In the past twenty-three days, over 1,000 new households have pledged to save money and energy with the Energy Challenge. While I would love nothing more than to take all the credit for that, I know that a big part of our numbers [...]

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