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I'm in St. Petersburg, Florida, attending the National Community Action Foundation and Community Investment Futures Energy Conference. Today is the conference kick-off and I'm looking forward to learning more about how community action agencies (CAA's), the prime movers of the US DOE weatherization program, are using energy leveraging projects to end poverty and improve energy affordability. [continue reading]
I attended a terrific Friends of the Berkeley Lab public lecture on October 11th on “Cool Cities, Cool Planet,” presenting research on strategies to ease energy usage and costs by choosing solar reflective materials for roofing and pavement, while at the same time mitigating the effects of global warming. Speakers were Art Rosenfeld, Professor of Physics Emeritus at U.C. Berkeley, founder of the LBNL Center for Building Science, and Commissioner at the ... [continue reading]
It’s no secret that windows are a liability when it comes to heat loss in homes. Conductance of quality insulated, low-e windows is typically 0.30-0.35 Btu/ft2hr°F, or about R-3. If installed in a wall that performs at R-20, heat lost through windows is 6-7 times higher (per unit area) than heat loss through the rest of the wall. Various window treatments have been used for years ... [continue reading]
The Montana Weatherization Training Center would like to inform you of this week's episodes of WxTV, online and ready for viewing. [continue reading]
David Brown, VP of the Energy Conservation Institute, recently drove up from Ventura, Calif., towing a 3-ton building performance lab. I met with David (middle in photo), another ECI trainer, and Lawrence Berkeley Lab staff scientist Iain Walker (right in photo) while David was in Northern Calif. to meet with utility, State Assembly members and building educators. [continue reading]
With the Fall comes many changes; today I was reminded that within those changes some things remain the same. [continue reading]
The Montana Weatherization Training Center would like to inform you of this week's episode of WxTV, online and ready for viewing. [continue reading]
Last week I was in Charleston, South Carolina for a meeting of the National Association of State Community Services Programs (NASCSP). This week I stopped by West Coast Green taking place at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. NASCSP is a group of state managers for the Department of Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) for low-income families. West Coast Green is an interactive conference focusing on innovation for the built environment. From crawlspaces ... [continue reading]
Wikipedia’s definition of permaculture works. It’s a fancy word to describe biology, but complex enough that there are certification systems for it all over the world, workshops, and events such as the Northwest Permaculture Convergence, which was in Seattle Washington over the weekend of September 15 and 16. Three hundred people gathered, twice as many as there were at the same conference the year before. [continue reading]
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