Boone Guyton and Claudia Cady

The sun’s arc is lower and still dropping pushing sunlight into our home about 8 feet.  These clear cool days are where the passive solar design really shines, so to […]

            Inertia gave way to momentum with the excavation of our site ( https://bit.ly/17nuJYU ).  Not surprisingly that momentum has led to some hard work. 

         We have made it through the maze of permitting for our house with a relatively new wall system of precast concrete  (Ideal Walls- https://www.idealbuildingsystems.com/home.aspx ).  Plan

  We have begun again. Our new house project is starting to take shape, at least on paper. Hopefully all of the trial and error will be done before we

Where we build is often as significant as how we build or what we build. A super efficient small green built home in town often has the lowest energy costs

    We have always included a solar greenhouse as part of our homes.  Our first one in 1983 was an attached greenhouse with leaky French doors that separated it

 The green building movement is toward net Zero, where a building produces as much renewable energy as it uses overall.  It is a reachable and measurable goal that is attractive

         Duke-Progress has a new incentives program for builders, the Residential New Construction Program. It is significant money for builders who want to build to a higher energy efficient standard.

  The North Carolina Legislature is considering sabotaging success in one of the best job producing, home grown sectors of our economy- clean energy.  Usually I would reserve political talk