But the Government has cut money to help improve and weatherize their housing.

Then there are innumerable little steps, such as encouraging people to weatherize their homes.

Weatherize your house, increase insulation, get an energy audit.

Mr. Bush will also propose cuts in programs that help poor people weatherize their homes and pay heating bills.

Some of this year's grants were made to restore wetlands near urban areas or help weatherize homes in low-income neighborhoods.

Weatherize one million homes annually.

"We administered a weatherization program, for example, which trained hard-core unemployed to weatherize homes of senior citizens and low-income people," she explained.

Romanoff has also supported efforts for tax breaks for those who weatherize their homes or otherwise reduce their energy usage.

Sherkaner's place was up there somewhere, among those rich enough to weatherize the high ground of an estate, but too cheap to rebuild down at the bottom.

House - $28.4 billion for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, including $6.2 billion to weatherize homes; $11 billion to fund a smart electricity grid.

The groups will repair roofs, haul trash, patch fences, paint indoors and install smoke detectors and, where needed, will weatherize the buildings.

Freeport's three-year goal is to weatherize and rehabilitate 195 of the 1,520 houses in the northeast region of the village, said Ms. Garvin.

The utility also sends employees to weatherize houses, checking windows and boilers, as well as determining eligibility for the Summer Work Assistance Program.

The Obama Administration got cracking early on the media-driven politics of the stimulus bill, with camera-friendly trips to weatherize houses or inaugurate solar plants in swing states.

The Portland project will create thousands of clean energy jobs for low-income workers, weatherize 100,000 homes, and launch the first model of paying for home weatherization through utility bills.

Partnering with conservation organizations, community groups worked to weatherize homes and businesses, plant trees and flowers, and add elements of "green building" to the renovation of Carrick High School.

"We used to just fly them in, weatherize them, and let "em sit, but more companies want a bit more protection from blowing sand and moisture, so we shrink-wrap some planes."

The Alamo Area Council of Governments currently weatherizes 150 homes a month but with the proposed cuts, they would likely only be able to weatherize 200 homes a YEAR.

The utility did continue to support our extensive efforts to weatherize the homes of low-income people, which made them cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter, and cut their utility bills considerably.

Through its Conservation Education Program, the OERB has contributed $1.75 million to help more than 800 Oklahoma families weatherize their homes and save up to 30 percent on their utility bills.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided $54 billion in funds to encourage domestic renewable energy production, make federal buildings more energy-efficient, improve the electricity grid, repair public housing, and weatherize modest-income homes.

One trade-off speaks volumes about Republicans' priorities: They decided it was more important to pay for a visitors' center in Oregon, the home state of a G.O.P. committee member, than to help weatherize homes of low-income families.

In December 2009, work was started to finish the exteriors of the residential buildings on McKinley Ave and Washington Ave, the two office towers on Mathilda and weatherize the remaining partially completed Redwood Square buildings until the project's resolution can be determined.

Some verbs ending in -ize are of U.S. origin; for example, fetishize, prioritize, burglarize, accessorize, itemize, editorialize, customize, notarize, weatherize, winterize, Mirandize; and so are some back-formations (locate, fine-tune, evolute, curate, donate, emote, upholster, peeve and enthuse).

According to Casey Gillfeather, OCS Director of Operations, the weatherization process includes insulating exterior walls, wrapping the hot water tank, installing an energy-efficient dryer vent, weatherize the basement, and insulating the attic in order to reduce energy consumption of the house by one-third.