Author: LEED Blogger
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SunShare’s 1.4-MW Community Solar Garden to Power Water Park
Denver-based SunShare announced today it has contracted with Hyland Hills Park and Recreation District to provide Water World, the largest community owned water park in the country, and its other district properties with 1.4 MW of clean, reliable energy from its Adams County Community Solar Garden. This is among the largestRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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A Shipping Container Guest House That’s a Piece of Art
This cool, and vividly colored guesthouse was designed by Studio ArTe. It is located in the Algarve region in Portugal and was built out of a single, repurposed shipping container. The owners of a nearby home commissioned architect Arnold Aarssen to build an affordable guesthouse on their property. He opted to use a shipping container…
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Army Base Achieves Net-Zero Energy
Fort Carson in Colorado is well on its way to reaching the goal of net-zero energy by 2020. More…
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Manifesto House is Built From Three Shipping Containers
A few years ago the sustainable housing design firm Infiniski completed yet another awesome shipping container home. Located in Curacaví, Chile the Manifesto House is made from three recycled shipping containers, while it also boasts of a number of other sustainable features. Infiniski prides itself on designing and building homes made from at least 80…
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Could Tofu be the Answer to Greener Solar Cells?
University of Liverpool News Dr. Jon Major, a researcher at Liverpool University has recently made the discovery that the chemical used to make tofu, and bath salts, could also be used to replace one of the most toxic substances, namely cadmium chloride, that are used to manufacture solar cells. Using salts to replace cadmium chloride…