Greenbuild starts today. The company's not sending me this year.
That is, they weren't until a few days ago. I was in Almeria, Spain, at Cosentino's offices when I got the news. (I intend to post about that Spain jaunt after I get myself dug out; but right now, I'm sitting in BWI waiting on a connecting flight to Phoenix, and Greenbuild.)
The Whirlpool Duet -- the latest washer to be used at the Wilson residence.
Earlier this year, Vermont became the first state to approve feed-in tariffs. The state has a goal of producing 20% of its electricity using renewable energy by 2017..
Vermont made history last week, becoming the first state to offer "feed-in tariffs" for electricity generated from renewable energy sources.
The low energy use of the first Passivhaus in Bremen, Germany, is surprising, especially since the house has neither solar collectors, nor a PV array, nor a boiler.
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>Insulating your water heater is a very effective way of reducing heat loss.
When you can and when you cannot count one material as contributing to more than one credit in the Materials and Resources category of LEED has confused me for years. Even the LEED Reference Guide doesn't lay it out clearly. So, after sorting it out for LEEDuser, I thought laying it out in a table might help.
Multiple MR Points for the Same Material: When is it allowed? MRc1 MRc2* MRc3 MRc4 MRc5 MRc6 MRc7 MRc1:Building Reuse
The press release says, "Yosemite black bears select minivan as 'Car of the Year'":
I received an email from a Design student at Kingston University (London) writing a dissertation on "why people are drawn to design inspired by nature." Three questions were sent; I went overboard answering the first one, and basically wussed out on the second two. I'd be interested in your takes on this highly subjective stuff, and will be sure to let our dissertation author in on the discussion.
The North Road Technologies Geyser heat pump water heater..
There's a revolution underway with electric water heating. It could be just as significant as the shift from top-loaders to horizontal-axis front-loaders that we've seen in the laundry appliance industry.
Alex and others from GreenBuildingAdvisor.com recently attended the West Coast Green conference in San Francisco -- the nation's largest green building conference and trade show focused exclusively on residential applications.
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