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Energy Code Development Begins: Focus on Residential
This is part one of a two-part series. Code officials, builders, energy efficiency advocates, and others weighed in last month on proposals to update the next model building energy code–a…
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Flatrock Passive: Thoughts on a Winter Greenhouse
Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of blog posts by David Goodyear describing the construction of his new home in Flatrock, Newfoundland, the first in the province built…
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Energy Efficiency Incentives Need Updating
A broad coalition representing millions of Americans earlier this month urged Congress to modernize and extend expired energy efficiency tax incentives, touting the enormous, long-term benefits for both the industry…
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Can We Prepare for Climate Impacts Without Creating Financial Chaos?
This post originally appeared at Ensia There is a perverse and hidden danger from climate change that few people, even those who unquestionably accept the science, know how to deal…
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In a Pinch, Choose Energy Efficiency Over Solar
An analysis by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy finds that energy efficiency and solar make complementary energy and carbon reductions in new home construction, but when budgets are…
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What Does the Term ‘Resilience’ Really Mean?
This post originally appeared at Ensia. The term “resilience” is everywhere. And everywhere, it seems, it means something a little different. Resilience has been used to describe people and systems…
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Reducing Carbon Emissions From Cars and Trucks Will Be Hard
A growing number of cities, states, and countries aim to dramatically reduce or even eliminate carbon emissions to avert catastrophic levels of climate change. Ideas about how to get this…
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New York Gets Serious About Traffic
After years of debate, New York state has adopted congestion pricing to deal with traffic problems in New York City. Starting in 2021, fees will be imposed on all vehicles…
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Lessons from Asheville’s First Zero Energy Ready Home
The Department of Energy would like builders to up their game. Though the energy savings achieved by the DOE’s Energy Star Homes program (said to be 20%) is worth celebrating,…
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Flood Survivors Become Flood Activists
This post originally appeared at Ensia. Susan Liley didn’t set out to become an activist. “A grandma, that’s all I am,” she says. But when her hometown of De Soto,…
