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Here is our last section on using your landscaping for energy efficiency and saving money on your energy bills. This section includes some information on using trees and shrubs to save energy. We have earlier aricles concerning planting of shrubs that you may wish to read to provide more information.
Selecting and Planting Trees […]

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Continuing with our series of landscaping for energy efficiency articles from the DOE booklet, we get some basic landscaping design instructions. If you haven’t seen these before, then it’s a good place to start when planning your landscaping for whatever reason, whether saving water, saving energy or just to provide beauty.
Planning Your Landscape
Before you […]

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In our last section, the article addressed saving energy through your landscaping by mean of shading. This section mostly addresses saving energy by means of providing windbreaks to keep the winter wind from sucking the heat from your home.
Wind Protection
Properly selected and placed landscaping can provide excellent wind protection, which will reduce heating costs […]

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