Sometimes being a practical person isn’t that fun. Last night my wife and I were watching the classic 1977 movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
Can you make your life more resilient in case of disaster? Yes, and it may be greener, too.
Calculating miles-per-gallon used for heating your house may be easier than you think.
It turns out you can learn a thing or two from your fuel bill—and if you get fuel delivered, your delivery ticket.
But first, how cold a winter did you think it was? Or perhaps I should say, how cold has it been so far? I’m struggling to get a fire going this morning, and out my window there is two feet of snowpack still on the ground!
In April's EBN, we take a look at green structural engineering, insulation in-fighting, and a revolutionary anticorrosion coating. Plus: embodied carbon in 500 words or less!
Power corrupts, and wind power corrupts pristine ridgelines. Maybe it doesn't have to.
Feeling bombarded with confusing information about measures of radiation? We sort out the millisieverts from the becquerels.
What is the measure of the time between slipping on a peel and hitting the pavement?
One bananosecond.
What is the ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter?
Eskimo pi.
What is the metric equivalent of 1,000 aches?
1 megahurtz.
Risk perception is irrational and does not respond well to data. Can we make the leap from science to persuasion without leaving the facts behind?
Japan provides a picture of what it’s like to suddenly run short of power in a modern society with all its conveniences.
Looking for clean renewables in the pie chart of post-Fukushima global energy consumption? Try under “Other.”
With this new tool you can see just how significant embodied energy and blowing agents are in determining the role of insulation materials in addressing climate change.
When the Modernists declared that form follows function, did they really intend for the built environment to look so ... dreary? Maybe beauty is an essential building function--not just something for the interior designer to work out at the end.
Market-based solutions only get us so far: we need policies, too, and fast. David Orr stares political reality right in the eye, and refuses to back down.
A new LEED for Homes tool can help designers get the jump on certification--and is great for homeowners too.
