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Brand New Appearance and Performance for An Older Duplex May 01,2010 \| Somerville, Massachusetts By Cador Price-Jones There are 120 million homes in America, and we need to figure out how to retrofit them for the new reality that we live in. We cannot all choose to move to the country and build a net-zero home and let someone else deal with the existing houses. A well made case for a new $150,000 “house coat”	Greening the HOME Rochester Program Apr 20,2010 \| Rochester, New York How HOME Rochester works The HOME Rochester Program acquires vacant single-family homes in Rochester NY, typically foreclosures, and rehabilitates them for resale to qualifying first-time homebuyers earning less than 80% of area median income. The program began in 2001 and is recognized as an effective neighborhood stabilization model.
Atlanta Historic Retrofit Apr 09,2010 \| Atlanta, Georgia Honoring an amazing 100-year context	A Green Bath Retrofit: From Structure to Finish Apr 01,2010 \| Brattleboro, Vermont Our second-floor, 50-square-foot full bathroom provides the only bathing in this 100-year-old house, so we had to make it work. We wanted to make the room feel bigger and deal with what we were sure was structural damage around the toilet. Underneath several layers of failing linoleum, we found the original beautiful yellow birch flooring, but also floor framing so compromised that the toilet waste line was "structural."
From ‘Tea House’ to Tight House Mar 21,2010 \| Marlboro, Vermont By Doug Snyder In 2008, contractor Dwight Holmes went to work with homeowner Mary Sargent on a deep energy retrofit of her 1917 “Tea House.” Nestled into a hillside apple orchard in Vermont, the building was originally constructed as a private, summer-only, communal dining and entertainment hall with living quarters for servant help. The house included many doors and large single-pane French windows to allow summer breezes to pass through the building. While this is ideal for the summertime, maintaining a livable temperature indoors during Vermont winters was a challenge.	A Net-Zero Townhouse in Oakland Feb 18,2010 \| Oakland, California Not many projects achieve HERS 0, especially on a small urban infill site. But that's the score achieved by the Lancaster Live/Work Townhome, a recently completed (Fall 2009) project in Oakland, Calif.

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