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Jon LaMonte's Blog Posts Tagged 'Energy' (3)
How Rising Gasoline Prices can Teach us to Conserve Energy at Home
So the price of gas is hovering near $4.00 a gallon again. Have you noticed a change in your driving habits? More people are choosing to stay home over driving long distances for vacation. They’re also combining trips to multiple locations to get more things done all at once and if they forget to stop at one,…
Added by Jon LaMonte on July 25, 2011 at 5:51pm — 1 Comment
Why I Love My Job
We all go through transitions in our lives. One of the biggest is choosing or changing a profession. As I mentioned in previous entries, my background for the previous 9 years was doing class action and warranty inspections on residential building products. This meant I became keenly…
Added by Jon LaMonte on April 21, 2011 at 6:47am — 7 Comments
Building Science Proven by the Bug Man
A buddy of mine, Dennis, that’s an exterminator called me the other day while I was standing in Home Depot. “Jon, I’ve got a problem and I need some of your building science expertise.” The problem he was having was being caused by some granules he had put down to repel some flying squirrels. The granules…
ContinueAdded by Jon LaMonte on February 21, 2011 at 6:02pm — 2 Comments
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