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New and Notable: May/June 2013
Northwest Residential Energy Study Reveals Home Energy Usage Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA), a nonprofit organization working to make area homes more energy efficient, has published the first two in a series of reports that ...
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New and Notable: January/February 2008
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Toward a North American Building Performance Protocol [continue reading]

New and Notable: November/December 2007
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Solar Hot Water Installation Opens [continue reading]

Book Reviews
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Karlenzig, Warren. How Green Is Your City? Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 2007. 224 pp., paper, $22.95. [continue reading]

Three New Books on Strawbale and Natural Building
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A new interest in energy efficiency helps account for the recent revival of natural building. A passive-solar building with earth-plastered straw-bale walls is simultaneously structure, insulation, and mass. The use of local, minimally processed materials ... [continue reading]

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Mainstream GreenHome Cherokee Investment Partners, which has previously worked in brownfield restoration, is expanding into the field of green home building. The company currently has a demonstration house, called the Mainstream GreenHome, under construction near ... [continue reading]



Cortney Krauss
U.S. DOE's HPwES Program Releases Draft Sponsor Guide for Public Comment
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s national Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Program (HPwES) released the draft&...


Macie Melendez
Passive Proponent—Q&A with Brandon Weiss
President and founder of Chicago-based Weiss Building & Development, Brandon Weiss is a third-generation builder who credits time ...
























