Tag: net zero
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A Classic 1970s Home Goes from Solar-Heated to Net Zero Energy
Subtitle: Richard Levine’s Raven Run house in Kentucky has evolved over the decades Images: 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…
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Light Filled Net Zero Home
The San Francisco based studio, Klopf architecture, in collaboration with mechanical engineering firm Monterey Energy Group has successfully completed a net-zero energy house in Cupertino, California. The renovation of the existing home on the site was aimed towards scoring as high as possible on the “GreenPoint Rated System.” The result is a two-story home that…
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New Englanders Love Heat Pumps
Subtitle: At NESEA’s Building Energy conference, air-source heat pumps were all the rage Images: Last week I went to NESEA’s Building Energy conference, and I think I heard three terms more than any others: heat pumpHeating and cooling system in which specialized refrigerant fluid in a sealed system is alternately evaporated and condensed, changing its…
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ROSE Cottage Proves a Large Home Can Be Sustainable
Harold Turner’s home near Concord, New Hampshire measures 3,370 square feet and was built using the ROSE construction method, which was created to build affordable net zero energy and cost effective homes in a wide variety of geographical locations and environments. R stands for “Renewable energy production,” O and S stand for “Owner driven spatial…
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Cost-Effective Net-Zero Houses Built in a Matter of Days
The Santa Monica-based award-winning green design studio Minarc partnered up with Habitat for Humanity, and a local non-profit firm Restore Neighborhoods LA to design and build affordable, net-zero energy prefabricated homes in the low-income areas of South Los Angeles. Together they built 3 homes, which were all built on vacant lots in the poorest neighborhood…