How a green home really “breathes.”
One of the features in our new house that I’m most excited about barely raises an eyebrow with some of our visitors: the ventilation system. I believe we have the highest-efficiency heat-recovery ventilator (HRV) on the market—or at least it’s right up there near the top.
Why ventilate?
Storing high-level nuclear waste in a mountain or salt bed will always face an uphill battle.
Here are some green product developments I’d like to see in the New Year
1) Rigid insulation with no flame retardants and insignificant global warming potential
Our resident number-crunchers have spent hours slaving over metrics to bring you … your own most-read BuildingGreen stories of the year. Ta-da!
Biophilia is supposed to be about our innate connection to nature. So where do TV windows and artificial breezes enter in?
I should have known I was in for something unexpected when I walked into this year’s Greenbuild session on “biophilia”—humans’ love of living things—in a dark, windowless auditorium.
