Please Join Us In The BooneyLiving Energy Conservation Challenge!

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As many of you may know, almost a decade ago, my family decided to move into the mountains of Southern Oregon so we could get off the grid and start living a greener lifestyle. If you haven’t read our story yet, you can read it here: About BooneyLiving.com.

We lived off the grid for many years but we recently purchased another house so that we could document the process of making this old home energy efficient and show you all how to make your home green even if it’s not off the grid.
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How Duct Sealing Can Reduce Heating and Air Conditioning Costs

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Duct Sealing SuppliesOne of the projects that we recently tackled was sealing the heating ducts in our home for the BooneyLiving Energy Conservation Challenge.

Since the only source of heating in our new project home is a forced air electric furnace, we decided to take a close look at the heating ducts to see if we could make any improvements to them that would reduce our heating costs.
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Ways To Save Money On Electricity – A Case Study

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Starting Power BillIf you’ve read my recent post about the new journey that our family has embarked on, you know that we are in the process of taking a 30 year old manufactured home that is an electricity hog and transforming it to an energy efficient green home.

The purpose of this article is to document our real-life energy conservation case study and show you how we were able to take this old house and convert it into a green home that is very energy efficient. We’re calling this case study the “BooneyLiving Energy Conservation Challenge“.
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We Are Beginning a New Chapter At BooneyLiving.com!

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Many of you have read about our story and you know that we’ve lived off the grid for about 8 years now. Well, I’m very excited to report to you all that my family is embarking on a “new journey”.

We love our lifestyle but we’ve recently been presented with the opportunity to grow and learn even more about living off the grid. This will allow us to share even more helpful information with the readers of BooneyLiving.com.

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You Don’t Have To Give Up Your Computer To Live Off The Grid

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Using Computers Off GridThe other day, someone replied to one of my Tweets (by the way, if you’re not following me on Twitter you really should. My Twitter is @BooneyLiving) by saying, “If you’re off the grid, how can you be on Twitter? Are you living in the Matrix lady?”

This got me thinking that a lot of people probably don’t realize that choosing to live off the grid doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to give up the miracles of modern technology. Living off grid means different things to different people but it doesn’t have to mean that you spend your days wandering around the woods barefoot with your hair knotted up in three foot long dreadlocks while surviving by eating nothing but twigs and bugs.
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