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Green Renovation: Same Footprint, Twice the Space
Originally a small house on a small hill in the heart of Decatur, Georgia, this home grew to meet its owners' needs in an environmentally friendly way with an EarthCraft-certified…
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A Net-Zero Townhouse in Oakland
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…
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Oregon Solar Cottage Shares a Ground-Source Heat Pump with Its Neighbors
This small house on reclaimed institutional grounds in Salem, Oregon, is just the first of many to come in a project that puts equal importance on energy efficiency, environmental conservation,…
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The First U.S. Passive House Shows That Energy Efficiency Can Be Affordable
#Relatively Small Investments Can Add up to Big Gains with the Right Design Strategies With R-60 insulation and a south-facing wall punctuated by triple-glazed windows, this Passivhaus home stays comfortable…
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Denver Developer Focuses on Zero-Energy Homes
A Denver-area developer, New Town Builders, is aiming to make all of its new homes zero-energy-ready by the end of 2015. “Our goal is to be 100% U.S. Department of…
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Historic Texas Bungalow Gets a Green Renovation
This green restoration of a 1928 bungalow in downtown Austin was the first historic project to be rated by Austin Energy Green Building. While the aspects of green building are…
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A Modest New House Proves Green Doesn’t Mean Expensive
#Typical Looking, Uncommonly Efficient and Healthy This rather typical-looking single-story ranch house is very uncommon in a lot of ways. It's super energy-efficient, it has superior indoor air quality compared…
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Convert an Attic into a Luxury Bath
Leslie and Heather, the owners of a 100-year-old 1 1⁄2-story house in Seattle’s Capitol Hill district, were tired of hiking downstairs in the middle of the night from their attic…
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A Passive Solar Home from the 1980s
Back in the early 1980s, I built a 1,480-square-foot passive solar home in Boulder, Colorado. There have been substantial improvements in active solar equipment since then. But today’s passive solar…
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Green by (Interior) Design
“I had three main goals for this project when we started,” says interior designer Victoria Schomer. 1. Right-size and balance each room for its intended use. 2. Connect each room…
