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Green Energy Retrofit

By David Johnston

The case for green retrofits in 2009- A call to action

For almost 30 years homeowners have been remodeling their homes to improve the aesthetics, increase space, make the home more kid-friendly or to just raise their…

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Green Plumbing practices to implement Monday morning.

By David Johnston

Ideas for retrofit

Save your homeowners money in the furture by following these practices.

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Green from the Ground Up

Teaching Residential Green Building Priciples and Practices

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Greening America, One House at a Time.

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Entering the Energy-Climate era.

There are approximately 112 million homes in the US according to the census bureau. Less than 1% are sufficiently insulated to meet the coming challenges.

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Benefits of Green Homes

How to Futureproof your House.

What does that mean?

Energy prices are unpredictable today and will become even more so in the future. Climate change is upon us, whether it warms our local weather or cools it off, weird weather is everywhere on the planet. Climate change really means that local weather will be more severe, and unpredictable events like floods and droughts will last longer and be more intense, hurricanes will become more frequent and generally the weatherman will have a harder time telling us what is to come.

Futureproofing is just another name for good green building. It is particularly important if you plan to stay in your house for many years to come. Our contemporary homes were designed with the assumption that energy would stay cheap. We know now that that assumption is costing a lot of money every month.

Every home is different but what we know is that very few homes in the US are sufficiently ...

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