Go Green: Update Your Lifestyle and Guard the Environment
Environmentally friendly houses are a factor a quality environment and save owners money ... owners. The course of going “green” may involve purchasing an energy efficient house, remodeling ... when exiting a room or your house. Air conditioning bills can be decreased by shutting curtains [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 01:30:31
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'Green opportunity' knocks for Brown - and is missed
... and accelerating climate change, he has missed an historic opportunity to boost the economy and take an important ... efficiency measures; improve the energy efficiency of all public sector buildings. This should provide [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:10:50
EarthCraft Certified Homes
In metro Atlanta, developers and builders are promoting green living through EarthCraft House ... rates the home on energy efficiency, durability, indoor air quality, resource efficiency, waste ... STAR certification criteria which includes passing diagnostic tests for air filtration and duct [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 20:33:28
More Americans Want Clean Energy, Not Oil Drilling
Prices at the pump may be falling but no one expects the days of cheap oil to return for long ... for energy efficient cars, and ways to make our houses and offices more energy efficient. Where [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 18:12:57
What's in the stimulus bill
Here's the rundown on spending, courtesy of the House Appropriations Committee. My first take is that if you have spend $550 billion ( ... in renewable technology. · $16 billion to repair public housing and make key energy efficiency ... water, flood control, and environmental restoration investments; · $10 billion for transit [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 16:31:22
E-House Prefab Gets Green, Affordable
Aaron Newman shot me a link to an article in the South Florida Business Journal about his company, Envision Prefab ... . Envision plans a number of green-type features for their E-House: Energy efficient appliances ... in the works in West Palm Beach and in Miami, with their first model expected in early September [more...]
Date: 2008-08-05 10:44:06
Going Green: Weatherproof Your Home
Date: 2009-01-19 20:49:00
What a Zero-Energy Residence Looks Like
The Department of Energy at Cornell University prompts architects to design energy efficient homes via competition. In 2005, Zero Energy Design put together this zero-energy residence, called the Solar Decathlon House. According to Freshome, "The one bedroom, one bathroom home uses photovoltaic and thermal [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 14:40:28
How to spend $550 billion
Finally: The House Appropriations Committee provides a first draft of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan: ... billion to repair public housing and make key energy efficiency retrofits. $6 billion to weatherize ... for clean water, flood control, and environmental restoration investments; $10 billion for transit [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 09:50:36
Stimulus Package 2009: Lightning Round Reactions
The Democrats in the House of Representatives introduced legislation this week containing $825 billion in new tax credits and government spending, ... OPEC. $16 billion to repair public housing and make key energy efficiency retrofits. I’m not seeing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 15:30:30
A Song from Under The Floorboards: the Decidedly Unsexy Face of Energy Efficiency
I once heard a comedian (I don’t remember who) say “we’re told we have to think about future generations… what have future generations ever done for ... of loss of heat from my house. When we had an energy makeover plan done, one of the first things ... for a long time, insulating beneath the floor of my house, and it was really rather unpleasant. You [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 07:46:34
Cheap green homes
by Adam Stein The recent post on passive houses sparked an interesting discussion about the costs of ultra-efficient homes ... . The home is 50% more energy efficient that sic a code home, will provide a much healthier indoor air quality, will use less than half the water of a standard home, creates almost no waste in building [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 21:47:02
Bright built barn
bbb.jpg Here's a house that announces its energy efficiency (or lack thereof) ... in the works. Even better is the design philosophy: The BrightBuilt project is unshakably committed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 17:57:20
How to spend $825 billion
By Kate Sheppard Enviros are heartened by much of what they see in the newly released summary of the House's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ... buildings to make them more energy efficient." Another section of the bill aims to "modernize roads ... for activities supported by other economic recovery funds, such as retrofitting of buildings, green [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 07:05:15
Taking the LEED in energy efficient living
When Jack and Aileen Viorel outgrew their house in Leland and were looking to move, ... in the area, but in the county! hpim1118.JPG The LEED certification for homes is new but no less ... lower energy and water bills; reduced greenhouse gas emissions; and less exposure to mold, mildew [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 15:14:21
Green Houses Will Reap Sales in New Market
Home builders that embrace green construction strategies will be in the best place to increase sales as the housing market changes, ... to be looking for more than just energy efficiency. Features like recycled materials, indoor air quality [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 15:02:36
25 Incredible Personal Biodomes
Richard Buckminster Fuller invented the geodesic dome in 1947, and his hope was to implement solutions for some of the larger housing issues during that time. You might not be surprised to learn that those issues, which included energy efficiency, a wiser use of resources and a safe residence remain the issues of the twenty-first century [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 16:49:37
Is Home Design Going To Change Now?
Readers suggested a topic on post bubble housing. “Is home design going to change now? Cheaper homes built in factories and assembled at the site? ... sense - building to maximize natural light and prevailing air patterns, for example.” “The question is, will architects, developers and contractors utilize energy-efficient design? Will municipalities [more...]
Date: 2008-06-07 14:53:35
Eco-Bling: Up Close and Personal
Assortment of Glass Tile Much of environmentally conscious, energy efficient design is invisible ... , California home. One of the first design elements that struck me when I entered the house was the color ... with a colorist, the Gottfrieds used 30 different hues throughout the house; some of them are slight [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 03:20:50
Bah, humbug!
By Joseph Romm So what part of the economic stimulus plan did House Minority Leader John Boehner single out on PBS's Newshour: And, ... buildings to make them more energy-efficient, and weatherize the home of poor people. I actually [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 23:28:00
Government encourages households to be more energy efficient…
The governments green experts are encouraging households to cut down the demand for energy, ... £740m of wasted electricity. The Energy Saving Trust states that if we have an in-insulated house [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 13:01:50
#18179 - The BrightBuilt Barn, located in Rockwood,...
The BrightBuilt Barn, located in Rockwood, Maine, is one of the super energy-efficient prefab designs of the year. A highly covetable structure, this barn/studio is not only a net-zero house... it is also seeking LEED Platinum certification (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 22:23:07
Remodeling Amory Lovins’ home
Amory Lovins’ house Between 1982 and 1984, ... worth of energy stored. The building will also have two of the most efficient residential air-to-air [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 16:09:15
GOP leader Scrooge Boehner disses weatherizing low-income homes and cutting the deficit
scrooge.gif So what part of the economic stimulus plan did House Minority Leader John Boehner single out on PBS’s Newshour: And, ... buildings to make them more energy-efficient Weatherize the home of poor people I actually helped oversee [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 14:44:14
Clean n' Save
Cleaning the house is really a tough job. So I guess me and my hubby have to make the best of a bad situation, ... and broom vacs, upright style, carpet cleaners and other designer series that are available ... in cleaning, but since it has a high-efficiency charging system that could save up energy up 70 [more...]
Date: 2008-06-20 06:46:27
Stimulus plan offers billions for climate research, energy efficiency and renewables
By Lauren Morello Climatewire: An economic stimulus plan released by House Democrats yesterday would pump more than $1 billion into climate science ... to climate science and the restoration of the Unite [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 16:12:18
RuralZED Zero Carbon Eco Homes
I've been intrigued by ZEDfactory ever since I first started seeing their homes and designs ... , RuralZED is more than a house, it's a system for developing zero carbon, zero energy, healthy homes ... , and if not, it will probably have a green roof. All of this is in addition to the efficient design [more...]
Date: 2008-08-19 19:32:30
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