Content Guide

This section of the Energy Information Clearinghouse highlights content that may be of particular interest to specific audiences.

• Homeowners: resources and tools for reducing energy costs and making informed decisions
• Voters & Taxpayers: resources and tools for making a difference at the local, regional, state, and federal levels
• Businesses & Organizations: resources and tools for reducing energy costs and making informed decisions
• Students & Educators: resources and tools for education, training, and workforce development
• Municipal & Regional Officials: resources and tools to support coordinated community analysis, planning, and decision-making processes
• Entrepreneurs, Consultants & Developers: resources and tools for identifying business opportunities, supporting community planning and development activities, and fostering innovation

Homeowners: resources and tools for reducing energy costs and for making informed decisions

• Practical Tips for Reducing Energy Costs: tips for saving money and for reducing pollution and other true costs
• Incentives: guide to rebates, tax credits, and other incentives that reduce the out-of-pocket costs of adopting efficiency and renewable technologies
• Community Snapshots: the energy situation in individual communities
• The Energy Present: the current fossil-fuel-based energy economy, including resource consumption, expenditures, emissions, other adverse impacts, and policy
• Current Facts, Current Visions: the tradeoffs between fossil fuels and cleaner and green energy sources
• Cleaner/Green Energy Options & Activities: regional energy supply and use options, local applications of cleaner and green technologies, and wind and other projects proposed in Cape & Islands communities
• The Energy Future: the risks of continued reliance on fossil fuels, the rewards of a cleaner and green energy economy, and promising projects and possibilities
• Information Resources & Links: information for improving understanding of energy issues; lists of energy-related businesses and organizations

Voters & Taxpayers: resources and tools for finding out what's going on in the Cape & Islands region and for making a difference at the local, regional, state, and federal levels

• Civic Participation Guide: information for voicing opinions on energy issues
• Community Wind: benefits, barriers, and status of local municipal wind initiatives
• Community Snapshots: the energy situation in individual communities
• Information Resources & Links: information for improving understanding of energy issues; lists of energy-related businesses and organizations

Businesses and Organizations: resources and tools for reducing energy costs and making informed decisions

• Practical Tips for Reducing Energy Costs: tips for saving money and for reducing pollution and other indirect costs
  
• Incentives: guide to rebates, tax credits, and other incentives that reduce the out-of-pocket costs of adopting efficiency and renewable technologies
• The Energy Present: the current fossil-fuel-based energy economy, including resource consumption, expenditures, emissions, other adverse impacts, and policy
• Current Facts, Current Visions: the tradeoffs between fossil fuels and cleaner and green energy sources
• Cleaner/Green Energy Options & Activities: regional energy supply and use options, local applications of cleaner and green technologies, and wind and other projects proposed in Cape & Islands communities
• The Energy Future: the risks of continued reliance on fossil fuels, the rewards of a cleaner and green energy economy, and promising projects and possibilities
• Information Resources & Links: information for improving understanding of energy issues; lists of energy-related businesses and organizations

Students & Educators: resources and tools for education, training, and workforce development

• Community Snapshots: the energy situation in individual communities
• Cleaner/Green Energy Options & Activities: regional energy supply and use options, local applications of cleaner and green technologies, and wind and other projects proposed in Cape & Islands communities
• The Energy Present: the current fossil-fuel-based energy economy, including resource consumption, expenditures, emissions, other adverse impacts, and policy
• Current Facts, Current Visions: the tradeoffs between fossil fuels and cleaner and green energy sources
• The Energy Future: the risks of continued reliance on fossil fuels, the rewards of a cleaner and green energy economy, and promising projects and possibilities
• Coordinated Community Planning Framework: energy-related planning, policymaking, economic development, capital investment, and resource development and use; connections between energy and other key issues facing local communities and the Cape & Islands region
• Practical Tips for Reducing Energy Costs: tips for saving money and for reducing pollution and other indirect costs
• Information Resources & Links: information for improving understanding of energy issues; lists of energy-related businesses and organizations

Municipal & Regional Officials: resources and tools to support coordinated community analysis and decision-making processes

• Coordinated Community Planning Framework: energy-related planning, policymaking, economic development, capital investment, and resource development and use; connections between energy and other key issues facing local communities and the Cape & Islands region
• Incentives: guide to rebates, tax credits, and other incentives that reduce the out-of-pocket costs of adopting efficiency and renewable technologies
• Cleaner/Green Energy Options & Activities: regional energy supply and use options, local applications of cleaner and green technologies, and wind and other projects proposed in Cape & Islands communities
• Community Snapshots: the energy situation in individual communities
• The Energy Present: the current fossil-fuel-based energy economy, including resource consumption, expenditures, emissions, other adverse impacts, and policy
• Current Facts, Current Visions: the tradeoffs between fossil fuels and cleaner and green energy sources
• The Energy Future: the risks of continued reliance on fossil fuels, the rewards of a cleaner and green energy economy, and promising projects and possibilities
• Information Resources & Links: information for improving understanding of energy issues; lists of energy-related businesses and organizations

Entrepreneurs, Consultants, & Developers: resources and tools for identifying business opportunities, supporting community planning and development activities, and fostering innovation

• Coordinated Community Planning Framework: energy-related planning, policymaking, economic development, capital investment, and resource development and use; connections between energy and other key issues facing local communities and the Cape & Islands region
• Incentives: guide to rebates, tax credits, and other incentives that reduce the out-of-pocket costs of installing efficiency and renewable technologies
• Community Snapshots: the energy situation in individual communities
• Cleaner/Green Energy Options & Activities: regional energy supply and use options, local applications of cleaner and green technologies, and wind and other projects proposed in Cape & Islands communities
• Information Resources & Links: information for improving understanding of energy issues; lists of energy-related businesses and organizations

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Content Guide
Homeowners
Students & Educators
Voters & Taxpayers
Businesses & Organizations
Municipal & Regional Officials
Entrepreneurs, Consultants & Developers

Dirty Roof

Conventional asphalt shingles are
the cheapest roofing material around but, as is usually the case, there is a cost: They are manufactured using petroleum by-products and, once they reach the end of their useful life, they must be landfilled as construction debris or “downcycled” as road materials or in other low-value uses. Credit: Houston Advanced Research Center

More Facts

Current Vision

Green Roof

Thatching represents an attractive and sustainable roofing solution. This thatched roof, gracing a barn in Yarmouthport, transforms an invasive wetland plant (Phragmites sp.) into a useful, biodegradable shelter.

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