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How to Save Energy

Rob_Moody, member | August 18th, 2009

Mythbusters: Home Energy Efficiency Measures That Actually Save Energy

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How Not to Save Energy

Rob_Moody, member | August 18th, 20091 comment

Mythbusters: Home Energy Efficiency Measures That Don’t Save Much Energy

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The Science of Saving Energy

Rob_Moody, member | August 4th, 20091 comment

Mythbusters: Home Energy Efficiency Calculations

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Polystyrene Foam Panels: Green Yesterday, Not Today

MikeGuertin, editorial advisor | August 3rd, 20095 comments

Environmental Building News article highlights health and environmental safety issue with EPS and XPS foam.

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From Scraps to Studs

MikeGuertin, editorial advisor | August 3rd, 20094 comments

You’ve heard of a See Saw but how about a SEE Stud? Turn your stud scraps into engineered lumber right on the jobsite.

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GE Promises Turn-Key Net Zero System by 2015

JFink, Senior Editor | July 20th, 20092 comments

General Electric brings us one step closer to living off of the grid - this whole-house approach combines residential energy-farming products like geothermal heat pumps, solar PVs, and wind turbines.

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Extreme Green Living

epirnik, producer | June 30th, 2009

Sound advice for making it 'on your own.'

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Why I Don't Use Cellulose or Blue-Jean Insulation

MChandler, member | June 29th, 200954 comments

Just because it’s recycled doesn’t mean it’s green. Let me explain why I won't use cellulose or blue-jean insulation. . .

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Getting Off the Grid

epirnik, producer | June 25th, 20091 comment

Micro hydro as an eco-friendly energy source.

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A New 'Cottage' Industry

epirnik, producer | June 24th, 20091 comment

Tiny houses offer more environmentally friendly building possibilities.

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Spray foam for the eco-conscious

RYagid, senior editor | June 17th, 200931 comments

Identifying the “greenest” foam isn't so easy. But, it helps to know what its made of.

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Marketing Green: How to sell homeowners on the benefits, not the features

MChandler, member | June 12th, 20092 comments

Green isn’t an upgrade, it’s the way quality builders build houses, but builders who are trying to move toward building greener, more sustainable homes often say that they hit a lot of resistance with their customers. Selling green, they say, is tough because it costs more. . .

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"Dumb as we wanna be" about energy?

JFink, Senior Editor | May 14th, 200911 comments

In this NEWSWEEK Q&A, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman criticizes America's passive attitude towards energy, how we got lazy about change, and why we're "dumb" for thinking that switching to compact fluorescent bulbs will solve the problem.

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What do the tax credits for energy efficiency and renewable energy mean for you?

FHBdotcom, editor | March 12th, 20095 comments

Several provisions in the economic stimulus bill that are relevant to energy saving improvements made by homeowners, remodelers, and builders.

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A Modest (Green) Proposal

MChandler, member | February 16th, 20099 comments

Americans can get to work fixing our own home weatherization problems without government handouts if we just give them a chance. We can put Americans to work fixing America’s problems, we already have most of the systems in place, we just need to get started.

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Is the U.S. ready for the passive house?

AlexWilson, contributor | January 8th, 200912 comments

A front-page article in The New York Times recently introduced the German Passivhaus concept to the American public. The article, “No Furnaces But Heat Aplenty in Passive Houses,” described the movement to build houses that keep occupants warm and safe even without heating systems. The Passivhaus movement got its start in Germany, but there are now at least 15,000 homes built to this extraordinarily tight standard throughout Europe, mostly in German-speaking and Scandinavian countries.

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Where are you getting your green building-product information?

FHBdotcom, editor | January 6th, 20092 comments

It is our job as competent, trustworthy green builders to do our homework. Builders should look closely at sources of product information. Does it come from a book, an article, a credible Web site? Is it the manufacturer? The source may well be trustworthy, but it couldn't hurt to corroborate their information.

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Hammering away at housewrap

FHBdotcom, editor | December 30th, 20081 comment

Proper housewrap installation is critical to the historic-house project I’m working on. First, as a secondary drainage plane, the housewrap will help to ensure that any water that finds its way behind the siding will not get into the framing lumber, and second. . .

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