The other day, Martin Holladay of Musings of an Energy Nerd, a nested blog of Green Building Advisor, mentioned this energy-efficiency pyramid, which I found to be quite interesting. He…
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The other day, Martin Holladay of Musings of an Energy Nerd, a nested blog of Green Building Advisor, mentioned this energy-efficiency pyramid, which I found to be quite interesting. He…
When you buy a house, there’s no clear way to know what you’re getting. There’s no miles per gallon sticker, as with cars, or nutrition label, as with foods. You’ll…
As the years go by, it’s interesting to see the same innovators pushing the envelope in new ways. For instance, ZeroEnergy Design, a design firm that we mentioned with the…
Yesterday, President Obama toured a training facility at Savannah Technical College and took the opportunity to outline more detail on the proposed HOMESTAR Energy Efficiency Retrofit Program. The program has…
This beautiful home will probably be the first certified Passive House in the state of Utah. Passive House consultant Dave Brach, principal of Brach Design Architecture, anticipates receiving a certificate…
Despite the fact that we are now living in the 21st century, aerogel insulation seems like a material out of science-fiction. It is the lightest solid known, although by volume…
Putney School, a prep boarding school for grades 9-12, needed a field house and retained Maclay Architects to design a green one. Literally. The ~$5 million green building is one…
Recently, we had to opportunity to talk with Don Ferrier about the progress of a home called the Zero Energy Casita. Ferrier, president of Ferrier Custom Homes, started building earth-sheltered…
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