Caroteo
Caroteo By Mari Fox on 03/05/2012 Kid-friendly meets green-building sensibilities at Caroteo — a playfully designed home that features both a firefighter’s pole for the children and geothermal heating and cooling […]
Feature: Solar farm update
The first phases of Western North Carolina’s first solar farm are harvesting the sun’s energy and producing electricity, just two years after Progress Energy and First Light Solar signed the
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Feature: Solar Decathalon
Feature: Solar Decathlon By Boone Guyton on 03/22/2010 In October 2009, Claudia Cady and I traveled to the fourth Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C., to check out what is new in
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Checklist: What makes a product green?
Checklist: What makes a product green? By Victoria Schomer and Penny Bonda on 03/22/2010 An important tool in the effort to build greener buildings and live greener lives is the selection
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Checklist: Choosing a green builder
Checklist: Choosing a green builder By Hans Doellgast on 03/22/2010 As people become educated about the benefits of building and owning a green-built home, more builders are advertising themselves as “green”
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Top 10 signs of greenwashing
Top 10 signs of greenwashing By on 03/22/2010 Source: https://www.greenbiz.com/news/2009/08/13/preventing-greenwashing-one-company-time.
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Technologies explained
Technologies explained By Elizabeth Koenig on 03/22/2010 What are carbon offsets? First calculate your “carbon footprint” by using one of the many online tools (simply perform a search for “carbon offsets”
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Green-building glossary
Advanced Framing: Framing techniques that use less lumber, thereby reducing material cost and use of natural resources, and increasing the level of insulation as a result. Also known as Optimum Value
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The best things about green homes
What does green building mean to you? What do you like about your green home? I began with a desire to do my small part to help save our environment.
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Feature: Pervious pavement
For your next project, consider installing pervious pavement. Recent test results gathered from various sites, such as universities, prove the validity of using pervious pavement in our area. Since Western
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