Best Solar Panels for 2016
That 30 percent tax credit on solar panels that was supposed to expire this year? It’s been extended, all the way to 2019. I feel like we just got an extension on a term paper — but if we don’t [...]
How Solar Panels Work – An Infographic
The folks at Save On Energy produced and provided this animated infographic that shows how solar panels work. Here is their short write up and the infographic. Solar power is talked about a lot these days. Whether it’s a new [...]
Spring Time, Clean Time
Use these tips from a professional green-home expert to refresh your home after a long winter. Many places around the U.S. are still thawing out from what seemed like an exceptionally cold February, but spring cleaning can’t begin too soon. Being [...]
10 Mistakes to Avoid when Building a Green Home
We LOVE that many people are going out of their way to build high performance, green homes. It's what we do, and have been doing for the last 20 plus years. This article from Freshome.com outlines 10 typical mistakes people [...]
What is a High Performance Home?
For those of us in the building industry, the term High Performance Home is something that is meaningful and pretty consistent. We’ve been using this term for at least 10 years, and to us it’s a home with a [...]
Integrating Advanced Home Safety & Security
Home safety & security are important topics to many, but it is also one that not enough people understand sufficiently. It is important to research home safety & security in order to keep your home protected. Keep reading for some [...]
5 Steps to Building a Green Home
When building a home we all have a list of “must haves”, and one of those that is usually pretty loosely defined is “must be energy efficient”. And while it seems like “lots of insulation” would keep the home both [...]
What Makes a Net Zero Home?
Net Zero Energy homes and buildings go by many names: zero-energy homes, zero net energy (ZNE) building, net-zero energy building (ZNEB). These are homes and buildings with zero net energy consumption. This means the total amount of energy used by [...]