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Efficient, Comfortable Homes Make Satisfied Buyers
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Rising energy prices, coupled with increased public awareness, have fueled demand for more energy-efficient homes. Many builders have responded by qualifying their new homes for the Energy Star label. Others have gone beyond Energy Star ... [continue reading]
Making It a Point to Go Green
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The San Francisco Bay Area is notorious for its high housing prices, and many families find themselves priced out of homeownership. Since 1988, East Bay Habitat for Humanity (EBHFH) has worked to reverse this trend by ... [continue reading]
Design, Construction, and Performance in Ohio
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Designing and building a house enabled me to put into practice many of the building science and engineering concepts and principles that I cover in my courses. [continue reading]
Roadblocks to Zero-Energy Homes
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In order to reach zero energy, a new home will require at least $20,000 worth of PV capacity just to offset the consumption of miscellaneous devices! [continue reading]
Building Urban, Building Green
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The advantages of building a green home in a compact city center overrule the headaches of remediating a brownfield site for this Milwaukee family. [continue reading]
New Urbanism Village Goes Green
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Sonoma Mountain Village, a new infill mixed-use development, will showcase green building and New Urbanist principles, which promote planning and architecture that create human-scale, walkable communities and cities. Located in Rohnert Park, a small city ... [continue reading]
Boulder Home Pushes for Zero
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The Solar Harvest home, built by Boulder-based Ecofutures Building, Incorporated, has been gaining a lot of recognition lately--and for good reason. By achieving 97.7 out of 100 points in an Energy Star audit, it stands as the ... [continue reading]
A Productive Marriage
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The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) found that PV systems on Energy Star homes make an impressive combination. [continue reading]
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Home Performance Coalition Comments on EPA's Proposed Rule on the Clean Energy Incentive Program
Yesterday, the Home Performance Coalition (HPC) released comments on EPA's Proposed Rule on the Clean Energy Incentive Program (CEIP) Design ...
Shawna Henderson
Five Ways to Judge Sustainable Housing
The first thing to do is clarify some terms.
