What Are Green Home-Building Techniques?
by Kimbra Cutlip, Demand Media With growing awareness of the effects human activities can have on the global environment, people are becoming more interested in using green building techniques. These ...
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What Do Homebuyers Really Want in a Green Home?
What Do Homebuyers Really Want in a Green Home? Source: http://nahbrc.com/trends_and_reports/trends/what_do_homebuyers_really_want_in_a_green_home# Conventional wisdom among builders is that the only green feature consumers want is energy efficiency, because it’s the one that ...
Operational Efficiency: A Hidden Energy Efficiency Opportunity for Commercial Buildings
A guest post on finding the hidden and low-hanging fruit of energy efficiency KEN KOLKEBECK: MAY 7, 2012 The commercial building sector is the largest electric energy consumption segment ...
The Benefits of Building Efficiency Go Far Beyond Energy Costs
By Mathias Bell Published February 21, 2012 Source: http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2012/02/21/benefits-building-efficiency-go-far-beyond-energy-costs?page=0%2C1 America’s 120 million buildings consume a prodigious amount of energy — 42 percent of the nation’s primary energy, 72 percent of its electricity, and ...
NY vs. DC: Who Wins in Building Energy Benchmarking?
Answer: they both win, because at least they are benchmarking their building stock. A look at schools, fire and police stations. Katherine Tweed – February 16, 2012 Energy benchmarking of ...
Green Trends for 2012: LEED, Net-Zero Energy and the Living Building Challenge
Source: http://www.greenbuildingnews.com/articles/2012/01/20/green-trends-2012-leed-net-zero-energy-and-the-living-building-challenge By: By Lisa Kopochinski (01/25/2012) Green building in all U.S. construction sectors will continue its rebound this year as the economy struggles to return to pre-recession levels. While the slowdown ...
Lighting Science’s $15 LED Bulb: Four Reasons Why LEDs Are the New PCs
h3Horizontalization isn’t a word, but you know what is means.Lighting Science and Dixon today announced that the two will produce a 60-watt equivalent LED bulb for $15, effectively slashing the ...
How to sell a certified green home
By Michelle Desiderio, director of Green Building Programs, NAHB Research Center Let’s start with a basic fact: a green home can be sold to anyone. However, home buyers are a ...
How Energy Efficient Is Your State?
Although the national economy is still slumping, energy efficiency spending continues to increase. Nationwide, states spent $5.5 billion in electricity and natural gas efficiency programs in 2010, compared to $3.4 ...
Demand Response and LEED: How Does It Work?
Move over, bike rack—demand response gets credit, too. What do demand response and carpeting have in common? They’ll both score you LEED credits, if you pick the right flavor. Demand response recently ...
