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Self-Taught MBA: Inspired Reading

Self-Taught MBA: Inspired Reading

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Helpful business books categorized by the eight divisions of business management.

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CT Zero Energy Challenge Announces 2010-11 Winners

CT Zero Energy Challenge Announces 2010-11 Winners

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Prizes honor projects for energy efficiency, affordability, and low projected operating costs

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CT Zero Energy Challenge Announces 2010-11 Winners

CT Zero Energy Challenge Announces 2010-11 Winners

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ZEC prizes honor projects for energy efficiency, affordability, and low projected operating costs

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The Smart Meters Contentious Opponents

The Smart Meter's Contentious Opponents

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They still remain very much in the minority, but anti-smart-meter groups are prompting investigations and continue to voice concerns about security and safety

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Self-Taught MBA: You Cant Be a Successful Builder Without Management Skills

Self-Taught MBA: You Can't Be a Successful Builder Without Management Skills

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Businesses do not have a tangible structure, like the frame of a house, but every business has a framework nonetheless. The purpose of management is to keep that framework functioning effectively.

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Canadas Solar and NZE Power Play

Canada's Solar and NZE Power Play

A solar simulator and a research initiative at Concordia University in Montreal focus on solar energy applications and strategies for bringing building performance to net zero energy

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Opportunity Accompanies Objections to Green Habitat Project

Opportunity Accompanies Objections to Green Habitat Project

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Neighbors have stalled a 35-unit subdivision of energy efficient dwellings, but the delay gives a Habitat chapter time to refine its green building technique

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Seattle Homeowners Build an Affordable Net-Zero-Energy House

Seattle Homeowners Build an Affordable Net-Zero-Energy House

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One couple’s quest for energy efficiency leads them to a relatively low-cost approach to design and construction

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The PV/Solar-Thermal Switch-up

The PV/Solar-Thermal Switch-up

As the cost of photovoltaic panels has declined, some developers of utility-scale renewable-energy power projects originally designed for solar thermal have been shifting to PV

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Weatherizations Home-Stretch Recovery

Weatherization's Home-Stretch Recovery

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Even though the expanded Weatherization Assistance Program struggled out of the gate – and can always be improved – it has produced encouraging, credible results

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Uptick Expected in Lead-Paint Rule Enforcement

Uptick Expected in Lead-Paint Rule Enforcement

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EPA official tells NAHB webinar participants that the agency is increasing inspections of RRP job sites and stepping up enforcement

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DOEs Marketing Push for Aeroseal

DOE's Marketing Push for Aeroseal

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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab touts the technology's track record for sealing leaks in duct systems and improving energy efficiency

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The Self-Taught MBA

The Self-Taught MBA

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About 30 years ago, I read a Fine Homebuilding article that changed my career. I came upon it while building my second house. By then, I owned a sturdy Ford truck and a garage full of tools, and I...

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Japans Emerging Smart-Town Boom

Japan's Emerging Smart-Town Boom

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Corporations partner on development of large communities whose top priorities include energy efficiency, renewables, and energy storage

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Tackling PVs Administrative Challenges

Tackling PV's Administrative Challenges

The DOE names contestants in a competition intended to make permitting and financing for photovoltaic systems quicker and cheaper

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Researching Retrofit Technology in the Northwest

Researching Retrofit Technology in the Northwest

Using two identical, side-by-side homes as their laboratory, DOE researchers aim to measure the effectiveness of a variety of energy efficiency improvements

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Taking Aim at Californias Low-Carbon Target

Taking Aim at California's Low-Carbon Target

As the state prepares to cut greenhouse gas emissions 80% below 1990 levels over the next 38 years, scientists predict a mostly electric future

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Russias First Active House Gets a Test Drive

Russia's First "Active House" Gets a Test Drive

A Danish solar-panel company teams up with a Russian developer to build a home designed to showcase net-zero-energy performance

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Knauf Chinese Drywall Settlement: 300 Homes to Be Repaired

Knauf Chinese Drywall Settlement: 300 Homes to Be Repaired

The agreement marks another step toward addressing litigation over drywall that off-gasses hydrogen sulfide

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Lawmaker Targets DOEs Weatherization Program

Lawmaker Targets DOE's Weatherization Program

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It's all part of Representative Chuck Fleischmann’s campaign to stop "green initiative abuse"

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