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“Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing”
Global Green USA originally published "Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing" in 2007. While the original holds up well, we’re lucky to have a new edition from Walker Wells and Kimberly…
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Are We Comfortable Yet?
I recently pulled out the notes I made last year about a kerfuffle that arose after a writer quoted a decade-old ENERGY STAR publication titled “A Guide to Energy-Efficient Heating…
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Greenwashing Patrol: Product Retrospective (Part 3)
Free time not being in short supply in these days of sheltering in place, it’s time to review more "Green Police" videos to see how well our reviews and analyses…
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Modular Construction is on the Move
In March, I attended what may have been one of the last in-person industry conferences held for quite a while, the 2020 World of Modular, the annual convention of the…
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Construction in the Pandemic Age
As green building consultants and verifiers, we are intimately involved in single family and multifamily projects through the entire construction cycle. Fortunately for us, and much of the industry, construction…
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Why Are People Still Using Open-Combustion Water Heaters?
John Straube, one of my favorite building science comedians, describes atmospherically-vented water heaters as “faith-based ventilation,” a description I use regularly in my presentations, always with appropriate credit given. While…
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The Green Police: Product Retrospective (volume 2)
Welcome to round two of my product retrospective, where green remodeler Michael Anschel of Minneapolis-based OA Design+Build+Architecture and I look back at our illustrious career as screen stars in the…
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The 2019 HIVE Conference
In December I attended the 2019 HIVE Conference in Austin, Texas. This was my second time to this conference and found it again to be an interesting experience, different from…
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Archi-torture: The Pain of Bad Details
While this post has little (or maybe nothing) to do with green building as most of us understand what it means, I find myself seeing some terrible residential design work…
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The Green Police: Product Retrospective
For several years in the 2000s and early 2010s, I was half of the "Green Police," a video series produced by Hanley Wood, along with green remodeler Michael Anschel of…
