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Virginia's Most Energy-Efficient Home

A home with a modest start wins the Most Energy-Efficient Home of the Year award for 2010 over 302 other EarthCraft-certified homes.

Sacramento's Zero-Energy Home Community

Author: Mike Keesee and Rob Hammon

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March 02, 2006

The first step in designing a zero-energy home is to significantly reduce the home's overall energy use. The rest is fairly easy. [continue reading]

Green Building on a Tight Budget

Author: Elka Karl

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January 01, 2006

An innovative program in Austin, Texas, uses common sense ideas to build affordable green houses while providing job skills for disadvantaged youth. [continue reading]

The Challenges of Basement Insulation

Author: Robb Aldrich and Mark Zuluaga

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January 01, 2006

A study explored how effective interior insulation systems are at keeping basements dry as well as warm. [continue reading]

Ventilating Small Chicago Homes

Author: Robb Aldrich and Gayathri Vijayakumar

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January 01, 2006

Because the affordable Chicago homes are airtight, builders were especially concerned with providing adequate ventilation and good indoor air quality. [continue reading]

Greening The Exterior Walls

Author: Jim LaRue

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January 01, 2006

Greening the exterior wall systems of residential structures is a complicated process, and it hasn’t been made any easier by the emergence of alternative wall systems. Of ... [continue reading]

Greening Your Home: The Foundation

Author: Jim LaRue

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November 01, 2005

Whether you are building homes using foundations made of concrete block, poured concrete, concrete poured into foam insulation forms, precast concrete walls, or some other system, greening these systems ... [continue reading]

Creating Green Communities

Author: Lesa Rosato

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November 01, 2005

Through its careful inspection process, energy efficiency and green building techniques, and development of communities, EarthCraft House is showing the greater Atlanta area that green building can go mainstream. [continue reading]