{"id":24010,"date":"2014-04-02T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=e233fb802514287a7fbbc2ac1ef01fe1"},"modified":"2014-04-02T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T08:54:09","slug":"a-classic-1970s-home-goes-from-solar-heated-to-net-zero-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/a-classic-1970s-home-goes-from-solar-heated-to-net-zero-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Classic 1970s Home Goes from Solar-Heated to Net Zero Energy"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Richard Levine&rsquo;s Raven Run house in Kentucky has evolved over the decades        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/classic-1970s-home-goes-solar-heated-net-zero-energy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/passive-solar-house-richard-levine-kentucky.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Raven Run Solar House\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/classic-1970s-home-goes-solar-heated-net-zero-energy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/passive-solar-net-zero-house-heat-controller-richard-levine-kentucky.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Solar collector controller\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/classic-1970s-home-goes-solar-heated-net-zero-energy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/passive-solar-net-zero-house-composting-toilet-richard-levine-kentucky.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Composting toilet\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/classic-1970s-home-goes-solar-heated-net-zero-energy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/passive-solar-net-zero-house-photovoltaic-modules-richard-levine-kentucky.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photovoltaic modules\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last week I was in Lexington, Kentucky speaking at the Midwest Residential Energy Conference. It was a great regional conference, and the folks there are making things happen. (I even played nice. With all those Kentucky Wildcat fans there, I held back and didn&#8217;t mention in any of my talks that I&#8217;m a Florida Gator.) One of the many highlights for me was getting to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Levine\">Richard Levine&rsquo;s<\/a> 1970s active solar house. It stands out like no other house I&#8217;ve seen, and I&#8217;ve seen other solar houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12553,1439,10552,970,10553,4125],"class_list":["post-24010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-1970s","tag-net-zero","tag-nze","tag-passive-solar","tag-zeh","tag-zero-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}