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  • Thumbnail image of DIY Hot Water Retrofit Cuts Energy Bill Up to 70%

    DIY Hot Water Retrofit Cuts Energy Bill Up to 70%

    If you are a homeowner looking to take advantage of the new 30% tax credits to cut your energy bills, here’s a  simple retrofit that attaches to a water heater, costs about $500 and can reduce your heating bill by 50% to 70%. If you use radiant heating for floors, rather [...]

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  • Thumbnail image of Hyper-Efficient Wyoming Home Bucks 90% Coal-Powered State Trend

    Hyper-Efficient Wyoming Home Bucks 90% Coal-Powered State Trend

    Who thinks advanced energy efficiency when they think of 90% coal-powered Wyoming? Not me. The average house in the state has to use over 800 kilowatt hours a month of the dirtiest energy in the US, to heat and power the same iPods and so on that in the other states take [...]

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    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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  • Thumbnail image of Half buried house in Mexico profits from soil’s thermal mass

    Half buried house in Mexico profits from soil’s thermal mass

    In desertlike regions temperatures often go to extremes, with differences between daytime and nighttime of about 20-30 degrees Celsius. This is the case with this golf club community house in Chihuahua, northern Mexico. To take advantage of the soil’s thermal mass and reduce temperature variations, the architects of PRODUCTORA partially buried its 375 sq.m. into the [...]

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  • Thumbnail image of Oceanfront residence by Grant + Sinclair Architects

    Oceanfront residence by Grant + Sinclair Architects

    “Sustainable” is the word that best describes this concrete home by Grant + Sinclair Architects. The other two words are beautiful and modern.
    Curving down the hillside, the house offers magnificent views over the ocean (as well as access to it) and does not obstruct the view of uphill properties. The residence is nice from the inside [...]

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  • Thumbnail image of Leura House by James Stockwell Architect – beautiful and energy efficient

    Leura House by James Stockwell Architect – beautiful and energy efficient

    Nesting in a mountain valley, Leura House by James Stockwell Architect is an architectural masterpiece located in Leura, New South Wales – Australia. It was made for Former Federal Court Judge Murray Wilcox and his wife Christine Wilcox with the idea to accommodate their big family – children, grandchildren and friends. Together with [...]

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    Consider A New Measure of Carbon Footprint

    It’s the new pig on the block. We have the carsoffthe road. We have the lightbulbsreplaced. Next we will look at apartment pools and see them as a similar measure of pigginess. Worse in some ways, as the solution is simple.

    Apartment pools should be covered at night. It’s the climate-friendly thing to do.

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  • Thumbnail image of Your Dryer Could Make Electricity Too

    Your Dryer Could Make Electricity Too

    Ener-G-Rotors has just developed an innovative new technology that one day might have your clothes dryer supplying half the electricity in your house as well, and cheaply enough to deliver a payback in two years.

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