Author: LEED Blogger

  • Tiny Apartment Big Enough to Fit a Family of Three

    Downsizing is certainly one of the components of living sustainably. However, while living in a tiny house sounds good for a single person, many can’t envision a whole family living in one very small space. The Spanish architecture firm Beriot Bernardini Arquitectos recently renovated a tiny 269 square-foot (25 square-meter) apartment, turning it into a…

  • Enphase Introduces New Comprehensive Solar Solution for Commercial Market

    Enphase Energy Inc. announced today a new solar energy solution for the commercial market. The new offering combines the advantages of Enphase’s intelligent microinverter technology with a comprehensive set of services and partnerships to assist the owner and installer of a commercial solar project from concept through implementation and eventually toRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Beyond LEED: Our Top 10 Projects for 2014

    Sustainability is never a single item or point in time. It requires that we adapt to reach—and surpass—our objectives. More…

  • Fires Decrease in 2013

    Incidence of fires and property loss down from 2012 More…

  • Reciprocity House is Worth Watching

    Maison Reciprocity, or Reciprocity House, is one of the entrants in this year’s Solar Decathlon Europe competition. In a nutshell, it is an energy-efficient, highly sustainable modular home, which aims to set the standard of low cost, and low impact building in the future. It is a joint effort between Appalachian State University and the…