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School Garden Collaboration Focus of 2022 Duke Energy Recipe Book | Duke Energy
Student gardeners inspire recipes for holiday publication Program demonstrates how environmental learning can build vibrant communities CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Originally conceived as a creative way to encourage customers to use their kitchen appliances, the Duke Energy Recipe Book has grown to become a favorite staple for many of the company’s 8.2 million customers. Distributed annually in time for the holidays, each edition features a different theme. Over the last two years, the recipe book has featured local restaurants and community organizations across the company’s territories celebrating unique efforts to tackle the impacts of the pandemic. This year’s offering, “The Grassroots Garden,” began distribution…
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Can rugs and curtains help you save energy this winter? | Society
Designing a “warm” home is a common obsession for decorators and interior designers. But with the uncertainty of the energy bills and the arrival of the colder months, that warmth ceases to be an abstract concept; we actually need our house to be warmer and to remain that way for longer. And even if the obvious course of action would seem to be carrying out a renovation that makes it as energy-efficient as possible, the fastest and cheapest solution could involve little decorative tricks. But how useful is the decoration when preparing the house for winter? “Finding a house’s cold or humid areas in order to be able to treat…
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How new US tax credits, rebates will work for clean energy home upgrades
US President Joe Biden signed the big climate bill – the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – earlier this week. Electrek spoke with Dan Gayer, JD, CPA, a senior manager in the tax practice at Baker Newman Noyes, about how homeowners can claim tax credits and rebates as they work to achieve energy efficiency and lower their energy bills. Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit Changes to the former Nonbusiness Energy Property credit, now renamed the Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit, will take effect on January 1, 2023. The old credit was worth 10% of the costs of installing insulation, windows, doors, roofing, and other energy-saving improvements. The old $500 lifetime limitation…
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Why an Allocation Fund Likes Energy and Real Estate Stocks
In volatile markets, making quick decisions is critical to protect a portfolio’s returns—and, in turn, clients’ money. That is a skill fund manager Adrian Helfert takes pride in. His time as a medic in the first Gulf War in the 1990s helped him learn to make tough calls in his current career and to avoid “analysis paralysis.” “At 18, I was tasked with being the person making good decisions quickly and leading quickly…when things go awry,” he recalls. “That has guided how I operate as an investor now.” Helfert, now 49, manages Westwood Income Opportunity (ticker: WWIAX), a $694 million, four-star-rated Morningstar allocation fund that can invest across stocks and…
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Putting plants in the bathroom helps circulate energy
The bathroom is usually the room in the house in which the decoration has less spaceeither because of its size (in many cases, reduced) or simply because it does not come to mind when we think of leaving the most beautiful spaces. Nevertheless, According to the principles of Feng Shui, it is a place of “energy leakage”, in which decoration can help. There are many elements to take into account to counteract this effect, and plants appear among them. Read also: Plants to combat stress, insomnia and other ills of the season Why you have to put plants in the bathrooms, and which are the best. (Illustrative image: Pexels). The…
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