If any of our readers have the opportunity to build on a vacant lot, we recommend they visit this page at the Jetson Green website.
This week, they are featuring a story on David Schmit, a Minneapolis photographer who decided he wanted a home in the suburbs with the design features of his downtown rental loft.…
A company in Western Kentucky has built more than 40 structures, including eight schools, using an innovative construction method called Insulated Concrete Forms. ICF consists of four-inch Styrofoam blocks reinforced by a rebar grid into which concrete is poured.…
The Pink Panther saves the World… and Newark.
Dow Corning, the largest maker of residential insulation in the US, can expect their economic recovery to start ahead of time due to the tax rebates and incentives for housing weatherization included within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed into law by President Obama last month.…
Last week, we showed you how a local Cambridge organization (HEET–Home Energy Efficiency Team) ‘weatherizes’ a house for fellow Cambridge residents. Weatherizing a house involves making some basic non-structural changes to a house to reduce the energy needed for heating and cooling and save money on utilities.…
You may remember the scene from the 1985 movie Witness starring Harrison Ford. A group of Amish people converge on a neighbor’s property and assemble a barn in a single montage, a single day.…
This weekend, Energy 2.0 received a message from Lands’ End specifically targeting everyone shivering their way through winter here in Massachusetts.
You know it’s cold when folks from Wisconsin are sending you winter sympathy messages via email.…
The details of an interesting program to encourage energy efficiency in Utah just crossed our desk here at Energy 2.0.
The Energy Services Efficiency Program… eases the financial burden of making large changes that lower the energy load on the power grid, such as better insulation, more efficient air conditioning systems and improved swimming pool pumps.The rebates could pay more than $500 for improved attic insulation, $350 for a new air conditioning unit and up to $125 for a better swimming pool pump.…
From the Laconia Citizen:
“It was 30 degrees outside but inside a yet-to-be-finished basement of a home being built on Summit Road, the temperature remained above 42 degrees, with no heat.
That’s because the home, which belongs to Cecilia Rai and James Koren of Plymouth, is being built to be energy-efficient from basement to attic.”
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The concept of ‘Passive Houses’ has been gaining some currency recently. On first glance it doesn’t sound terribly exciting. From this article in the Portland Daily Journal of Commerce, however, you can see that creating a passive house requires homeowners to take a number of active steps towards building or renovating a house that requires very little energy for heating or cooling.…
Insulation, rain runoff, reduced carbon emissions and the heat island effect. Green roofs are certainly good for the environment.
As these photos from a recent Huffington Post contest show, green roofs are pretty easy on the eyes, too.
