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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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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]
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Code Conflict Between 2012 IRC and 2012 IECC
It has come to my attention that there may be a building science-based conflict in the language of the 2012 International ...
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Home Performance and HVAC Contractors: Recent Legislative Initiative In Texas
As energy auditors and raters went about their business of testing homes, performing energy audits and HVAC system inspections, they ...
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