Nonprofit helps Mainers cut heating bills with insulating window inserts

The nonprofit estimates one medium-sized insert can save up to 8.5 gallons of heating oil per year, which roughly translates ...
Bates College

Through hands-on research, Bates students help expand access to energy-saving window inserts

In a classroom at the St. Mary’s Nutrition Center in Lewiston one Thursday evening in late November, every inch of space was in use. Pine frames, built to fit into the smallest bathroom window or the ...
Portland Press Herald

Volunteer-built window inserts help keep the cold away

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Brattleboro Reformer

Guilford Energy Committee offers insulating window inserts

GUILFORD — The Guilford Energy Committee has joined forces with a Maine nonprofit, WindowDressers, to build custom insulating window inserts. The inserts fit inside of your existing windows to let in ...
Kennebec Journal

Mainers are building energy-saving window inserts for one another

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Brattleboro Reformer

Low-cost insulating window inserts available in Bellows Falls

BELLOWS FALLS — Rockingham and nearby residents can get free or low-cost window inserts to help keep their homes warm this winter. The "WindowDressers" program will return from Oct. 11 at St. Charles ...
Journal Star

Tips for dressing up window boxes

Window boxes are charming miniature gardens with all the same horticultural potential of a big flowerbed in the ground. Because the scale is limited, you'll need to concentrate on smaller plants, but ...