Our Green Home

Renewable Energy Works!
Green Home Consulting

Our Green Home

Renewable Energy Works! operates out of the LaBine family home in the heart of the village of Avon, NY. We have lived in this ca. 1899 home for the last 12 years or so. As we have remodeled and added on, we have incorporated many green home features. For example, according to EnergyStar's Yardstick, our home now uses less energy than 98% of all homes in the country. And we are still working to do better!

Please come back soon, as I'll be adding much more detail on all the features of our home.

For a quick glance at how I'm doing, I've devised a simplified chart of my progress on a few key measures. The chart shows how much I am using compared to the average person or household. Natural Gas (therms per year), Electricity purchase (kWh per month) and Water (gallons per day) compare my household's consumption versus the average values listed by area utilities. The Petroleum numbers compare my annual consumption of "dino"diesel fuel to the average American's gasoline consumption.