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View of an efficient and well-lighted house for security and entertaining Source: Hadco
  • Energy Solutions
  • March 2014

Efficient outdoor lighting

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  • Feature Stories
  • February 2014

Listen to your heart

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  • Feature Stories
  • January 2014

Casey’s General Store

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  • Feature Stories
  • December 2013

Finest Cooking Holiday Recipe Contest Winners

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  • Feature Stories
  • December 2013

Illinois innovation

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  • Feature Stories
  • November 2013

World-class performer

Professional home energy auditors use infrared cameras to picture energy leaks.
  • Feature Stories
  • November 2013

Extreme Efficiency Makeover

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  • Feature Stories
  • October 2013

Fire sparks volunteers

Personal relationships are at the core of what locally owned and operated cooperatives are all about, which makes them perfectly positioned to foster economic development projects. - Source: Touchstone Energy® Cooperatives
  • Feature Stories
  • October 2013

Energizing our communities the co-op way

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  • Feature Stories
  • September 2013

Two girls with a dishwasher and a dream

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  • Feature Stories
  • August 2013

Working together for Illinois

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  • Feature Stories
  • August 2013

Telling fish stories

Grandmother Rita along with sons (l-r) Richard, Robert and Steven hold the new Sesquicentennial Farm signs presented to them by State Rep. Jim Sacia.
  • Feature Stories
  • July 2013

This land is our land

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  • Feature Stories
  • July 2013

Watching wind grow in rural Illinois

Ginger was very underweight and pregnant when rescued.
  • Feature Stories
  • June 2013

Humane investigator SHAREs her stories of equine salvation

  • Feature Stories
  • June 2013

Delivering business success

lectric co-ops across the country have been preaching and teaching energy efficiency for years. Bob Dickey, manager of marketing and economic development for Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative took his “sermon” to congressional staffers on Capitol Hill using the co-op’s energy wall. The 18 foot-long energy wall uses compressed air flowing through the display to demonstrate potential energy losses that could easily be plugged with proper caulking, insulation and various sealants. Co-op officials gave policymakers an opportunity to experience the same energy-efficiency messages more than 300,000 co-op consumer-members in the nation’s heartland have been able to share. “We know we can reduce the energy costs on the vast majority of homes by 20 to 40 percent,” says Dickey. “Many homes were built decades ago and they leak like sieves.” Source: Kevin Bernson
  • Feature Stories
  • May 2013

Getting comfortable with home energy efficiency

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  • Feature Stories
  • May 2013

Shawnee Bluffs Canopy Tour comes to southern Illinois

  • Feature Stories
  • May 2013

Nomination Letters

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  • Feature Stories, ICL
  • April 2013

Leaving a legacy

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  • Feature Stories
  • April 2013

Maple sirup the sweet tradition of Funks Grove

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  • Feature Stories
  • April 2013

A small town preserves its roots and prospers

Volunteers work in the Farm Service garden in Springfield.
  • Feature Stories
  • March 2013

Fighting hunger and harvesting hope with local produce

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  • Feature Stories
  • February 2013

Green jobs for sustainable careers

The proliferation of smart meters, along with other developing technologies, helps electric ­cooperatives work to contain costs while improving service for consumer-members. Source: NRECA
  • Feature Stories
  • February 2013

Co-ops cutting costs through innovation

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  • Feature Stories
  • January 2013

Postal problems

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  • Feature Stories
  • November 2012

Tractor club’s best kept secret revealed each year in Penfield

To install do-it-yourself storm windows, attach foam weatherstripping around the frame to seal against the ­window opening and to hold it in place.
  • Energy Solutions
  • November 2012

Window Wizardry

Geothermal systems use underground coils filled with water or a special solution that work with a heat pump unit to heat and cool a home or business.
  • Feature Stories
  • October 2012

Picking the right heat pump

The T-Bar M Dairy Ranch, outside of Durant, Okla., normally uses 250-W metal halide lights in its barns. CRN exchanged those bulbs in 10 fixtures with 120-W LEDs. After six months, the dairy had cut energy use by 55 percent and boosted brightness by 30 percent. Source: Cooperative Research Network
  • Feature Stories
  • September 2012

The speed of light(ing)

Gary, Dennis, Cindy and Joyce.
  • Feature Stories, ICL
  • August 2012

Round’em up for Cowboy Church

Photo courtesy of Gregory Thorp.
  • Feature Stories
  • August 2012

Ministering on the Mississippi

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