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Businesses across the country are also taking steps to improve their energy efficiency and reduce costs for American companies.

America’s Home Energy Education Challenge is a nationwide initiative engages students at schools across the country to learn more about how energy works in their homes and communities -- which also encourages them to work with their parents to take simple steps to save energy and money.

A brand new Web site on EERE talks about the basics of how energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies work. But I wanted to point out something in particular: the Energy 101 series of videos!

Energy Basics is a resource to help answer all of your "basic" questions about energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.

What kind of green jobs most interest you?

Recently a friend considering switching careers asked me about job opportunities in renewables and efficiency—often referred to as green jobs.

As you're probably aware by now, every state and U.S. territory has been given funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to allow eligible consumers to receive rebates for the purchase of new energy-efficient appliances when they replace used appliances.

Last month, the Federal Trade Commission announced that light bulbs will have a brand new style of packaging, starting in 2011.

We hear a lot about renewables like wind and solar these days, but what's the deal with fuel cells and is there a future in them?

For many of us, thinking about energy efficiency means thinking about changes we can make at home. But residential energy efficiency is just one slice of the energy use pie.

The freshest energy news on the block this week is the newly designed eere.energy.gov.

While President Obama was talking about his plans and goals for the future, it made me think of a lot of the work that EERE is already doing.