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Following up on earlier good news from BGE, there’s now another way these cold-eyed corporate mercenaries will help you pay them less money. And once again, it’s free. BGE recently launched a home energy efficiency calculator through its website.
The new utility will allow BGE users (as well as non-users) to enter information about their home [...]

This is an easy one. Baltimore Gas and Electric, your friendly occasionally menacing local power provider, is offering a new program they claim will make your home more energy-efficient and save you money and not cost anything. Probably.
The details are these: you can set up your BGE Quick Home Energy Check-up by filling out this [...]

We’ve talked a little bit before about how living in an urban area (cough, Baltimore, cough) is better for the environment. The study we were talking about then, by economists Edward L. Glaeser of Harvard and Matthew Kahn of UCLA, was primarily concerned with where future home building and population growth would do the [...]

We here are Urban Discoveries Living are an environmentally conscious bunch.  We recycle, we want a Prius, we cry over pictures of iceberg-stranded polar bears.  But for all of our liberal intentions and green guilt (is that a phrase?  Can we make it one?), we’re mostly paying lip service, we’re not really doing anything.
So we’re [...]