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Boat House Houses Boat Owner on Weekends
Here’s a very simple and effective idea. An extremely stripped-down minimal building down at waters edge serves the two functions that its owners need it to. During the week the boat is tugged up this ramp and shut right into this rather utilitarian looking building.
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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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Serious Materials Could Cut US Carbon Footprint
If Serious Materials made every interior wall and window in the US, it would make a real dent in the national carbon footprint, because the company turns out an 80% more energy efficient drywall or sheet rock that does not emit greenhouse gases in production, and its Serious Windows are [...]
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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 [...] -
Cheap Device Harvests Both Solar Power + Waste Heat For Hot Water
Now that California has a terrific solar rebate of 30% to fund solar hot water systems; as a Californian, I’ve been looking into solar hot water systems.
One of the cheapest that would qualify for both the California rebate and the new 30% Federal tax credit, and is certainly a uniquely interesting idea, [...] -
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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