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Spec House in Maine Gets LEED – Teaches Zero Carbon Design

Richard Renner Architects designed this carbon neutral home as a spec home at the request of a local construction company, in Maine, because the state’s residents like to build sustainably. The state would qualify as the Sweden of the USA with 55% of its electricity coming from renewable sources – thanks to state legislation that [...]

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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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Zero Energy Prefab Homebuilder Takes LEED

Solar roofs and geothermal ground heat exchange are the primary energy providers. The home is designed to produce its own solar electricity, but to be linked to the grid, which acts as a giant 100% efficient storage medium, to store any excess energy produced for use later, however, this prefab could be set up as a self generating zero home in rural areas with no link to the grid, and provide its own energy.

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Planet-Cooling Technology at Your Fingertips

Here’s a charmingly altruistic idea for those of us who would love to help to green the grid but can’t afford to invest in a full roof of solar panels just to lavish lots of climate-friendly electrons on others — the Inlet-Outlet plug.

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Zero Energy Home Glows Green When it’s Good for the Planet

It’s not so hard to make your home an energy producer rather than an energy consumer.
Solar on the roof, geothermal heat exchange in the ground, super insulation in all the walls and low emissivity glass windows.

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