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While visiting the Hamptons Home and Garden Show, come to the GreenHamptons Pavilion. It's a great way to learn how to save thousands on your energy bill.

Are your oil bills getting way to high? How about your recent LIPA bills? Are they skyrocketing? Well guess what, solar energy is free. I am sure you have heard about the impending global warming crisis and have taken notice to the alarming facts from former Vice President Al Gore's movie and book. Maybe it's time to implement or at least consider a cost-effective solar energy solution. Besides, it's environment-friendly and pollution-free. The GreenHamptons Pavillion can get you the info you need to start.

Explore the innovative GreenHamptons Pavilion, which is a separate marked section of the huge HHG Show expo. The show organizers have assembled many of the leading experts on Long Island and they are all here to show you how to become energy efficient and eco-friendly. Discover how solar energy can be used in many ways, including how to provide heat, lighting, mechanical power and electricity. Get the scoop on solar electric, geothermal technology and wind power.

By attending, you'll be immediately enriched by the useful ideas, practical tips and hard-earned advice that you will receive. From improving home insulation, to evaluating such mundane things as water usage, lighting, landscaping and irrigation, you can come away with the tips that will save you thousands of dollars annually.

It's all here for you. Meet with the local architects who are designing and building energy efficient homes on the East End. Get the lessons learned from savvy solar companies and renewable energy professionals who service the Hamptons. Meander through the 20-plus information-packed displays that may have profound effect on your life forever. Walk into the live Green Solar Energy Demo House (the Solar Shack Education Center) as well as the real life Green Cottage - built by green architect Anthony Musso, which is a small solar building valued at $30,000, and will be auctioned off for a charity on Sunday at 2 p.m. Bring your check book as bidding starts at just $7,000. The auction is presented by the Press Newspaper Group, hosted by Wells Fargo and benefits The Children's Foundation of Suffolk. If not anything else, bidding on The Green Cottage will be your "green" thing to do this year.

Sit in on our distilled 30 minute green lectures presented Saturday and Sunday afternoon, look for the on-site Show Program and in advance, visit www.hhgshow.com for times and speakers. These memorable seminars are created to give you the straight, hard answers and spirited motivation to need to move confidently down the path of energy conservation.

Here are a few of the things you'll learn by experiencing the GreenHamptons Pavilion.

1) How much expected savings each year and the estimated annual return on a solar project investment.
2) How to rate and evaluate the leading makers of solar modules and equipment.
3) How much to expect to spin your meter backwards while living in Water Mill.
4) The expected lifetime for a solar energy system.
5) What percent of this system will be paid for in rebates from LIPA, NYS and Federal taxes and the Town of Southampton.
6) How to qualify for that $2,500 rebate from the Town of Southampton
7) Discover the most experienced and savvy installers of solar systems and the 2-3 guys you must know.
8) What to look for on solar power or solar thermal bids.
9) How much value will be added to a Bridgehampton home by going solar.
10) How a backyard can become the source for heating and cooling a house.
11) The ten little things you can do around the house that will save you $50,000 in energy bills over the next 5 years.

Rick Friedman is the President and Founder of the Hamptons Expo Group For more information about the GreenHamptons Pavilion visit www.hhgshow.com or call 631-283-5505.