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Lake County's GO GREEN GET GREEN Rebate Program offers residents and small commercial business owners incentives for energy-efficiency upgrades to their structures. The rebate program is available for Lake County residents (Energy Star Appliance rebate only) and property owners and will reimburse a portion of certain energy-efficiency measures that qualify for the program.The program is a one-time, first-come, first-served rebate program, and participation in the program began on July 5, 2011.

Click here to learn more about the Go Green Get Green rebate program.

Going Green at Your Library

The Lake County Library System Libraries now have a genre of books and information which reflects the ‘green initiative’ sweeping the country. This important movement encourages communities to develop a new consciousness of how to build homes, communities, family and personal lives conserving the earth and its resources. It is to become more effective in the use of our environment’s renewable and non-renewable resources.

The libraries of the Lake County Library System have many items listed under the subject heading Green Movement Literature. The following is a brief selection of Lake County library books that are available:

Going Green Resources Available at the Library
Green Your Clean				Green Your Home
Green Housekeeping by Ellen Sandbeck		Green-up Your Clean-up by Jill Potvin Schoff		Green Remodeling by John D. Wagner Easy Green Living by Renee Loux Green Goes with Everything by Sloan Barnett
Green Your Work Space		Green Your Home Construction
True Green @ Work by Kim McKay		Green from the Ground Up by David Johnston
Green Your Children		Go Green		Go Green and Make Money
Healthy Child, Healthy World by Christopher Gavigan Growing Up Green by Deirdre Imus		Green Living for Dummies by Yvonne Jeffery Hey Mr. Green by Bob Schildgen		Stirring It Up by Gary Hirshberg Go Green, Live Rich by David Bach
More Green Resources
The following DVDs are also in our libraries: Global Warming: What’s Up with the Weather?  An Inconvenient Truth		For more titles please check the catalog under: - Green movement; - Environmental protection; - Environmental responsibility; - Environmentalism.

Questions

1. Where can I get tips on saving energy?
   Dept. of Energy: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
       Energy Savers: Tips on saving energy at home
       EERE Information Center
   
   Progress Energy: Energy Saving Tips & Tools 
   
   SECO Energy Home Energy Conservation Tips
   
   
2. Can I find a free energy audit?
   SECO will conduct free home energy audits for residential members and commercial audits are performed for member-businesses who wish to know more about their energy consumption. www.secoenergy.com
   
   A free walk-through energy inspection is conducted at your home by a Progress Energy representative. www.progress-energy.com
   
   
3. Where can I find information on hazardous waste and recycling in Lake County?
   Lake County Recycling Program
   Lake County Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Program
   
   
4. Where can I find information on Waste Management?
   Reverse the way you think about waste.  Putting the four R's - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover the resource into action is what Waste Management and this site are all about. www.thinkgreen.com
   
   
5. Does Lake County provide a alternative transportation?
   LakeXpress is Lake County's public transportation initiative.The fixed-route service is designed to make daily commutes along U.S. Highway 441 hassle free and conserve fuel resources.
    http://www.ridelakexpress.com/

Interesting Information

A list of some of the more popular “green” websites