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New Rammed Earth Design: Tough, Eco-Correct, & Very Chic
While people have built houses out of earth over the millennia, a new take on “rammed earth” building now makes it possible to make buildings out of earth that are both modern looking, elegant and extremely strong.
Rammed earth walls that comprise both interior and exterior face in one integrated piece makes this building technology [...] -
Massachusetts Condos Tap Geothermal Power for Cool Summers, Warm Winters
Because the earth absorbs about half the energy it gets from the sun, ground temperatures about four to six feet below the earth’s surface remain relatively moderate and constant all year. In Massachusetts, summer temperatures can be very hot and and humid. Winters are chilly.With climate change, [...]
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Here’s a Building That Makes Money Selling Electricity
Sipéa builds and runs social housing in Poitiers, central France. The buildings are very green, so much s that their use of energy is actually net-negative. In this way the building actually earns a little income from selling its excess power from the solar roof. This little extra comes in handy when when you [...]
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Solar Villagers Would Only Pay $300 a Year for Energy – in Masachusetts!
Rural Development Inc worked closely with engineers at Steven Winter Associates and architects at Austin Design to plan the community that won an award this year at Zero Energy Challenge.
The Wisdom Way Solar Village homes show just what can be done: you can have a $300 a year energy bill, even in Massachusetts. The [...] -
Elegant, Energy-Efficient & Low Carbon-Footprint Cooking
One gorgeous and elegant way to reduce your use of the energy that causes climate change is by switching to an induction cooktop. These use a high-powered magnet to heat food, not an electric heating element.
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Why IKEA Should Design Solar Lamps for the Developing World
Lighting up the third world without using fossil fuels is a challenge that IKEA’s designers are certainly up to, with those innovative design skills. Solar lamps are already being designed to fill that need, but they are not going to be successful if they are poorly designed for the task.
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NREL and Colorado Housing Agency Build Modular Affordable Zero Energy Housing Units
Where better than Colorado to test zero energy affordable housing? Not only does the state gets a whopping 70% of its electricity from coal, but the technical solution to reducing those greenhouse gases is right there in Boulder.
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Net Zero Restoration of 1936 Artist Built Cottage in Palo Alto
When Marc Porat bought the craftsman home built by the renowned architect and artist Pedro de Lemos in 1936, he completely upgraded the home to PassiveHaus Net Zero energy standards, to demonstrate just what is possible, even with antique housing stock.
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Straw Bale Construction Gets 21st Century Take
ModCell is a British company that has come up with a very unique product that mixes pre-industrial straw-bale building with a decidedly post-modern sensibility – by creating a building technique using prefabbed panels incorporating sustainable straw-bales.
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Mobile Dwelling Unit 00001 Expands When You Live in It
Here’s one of the more stylish and brilliant shipping container homes I’ve seen. Not only is it fashionably frugal – since shipping containers sell for a song, but this one is as cheerful as a bright red metal lunchbox.
The brilliant part? This 40 foot shipping container, which would normally be a very cramped 8 foot [...]
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