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The BS* + Beer Show: The Benefits of Bio-Based Building Materials
If you come to GBA because climate issues matter to you and as a building professional, DIYer, and/or homeowner, you know that where you can make an impact is in…
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High-Performance Window Install
When I first started installing windows in the 1990s we were using Tyvek HomeWrap as our water resistive barrier (WRB) and made the now-infamous X-cut at our windows, folding the…
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Establishing Best Practices
What happens when two old friends and colleagues, living on opposite sides of the continent, in entirely different climates—not to mention having different occupations, backgrounds, and genders—try to agree on…
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European Court Rebuffs Critics of Wood Pellets
The European Court of Justice has thrown out a challenge to a renewable energy policy that encourages the use of compressed wood pellets for utility-scale power generation, ruling that the…
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Coronavirus and the Fragility of Auto-Centric Cities
The coronavirus has exposed the ills of continued automobile-centric urban planning practices that adversely impact equity, health, and the climate. Those of us who are working from home, own an…
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To Cut Carbon Emissions, a Movement Grows to ‘Electrify Everything’
On March 24, just before the city council of Santa Cruz, California, passed an emergency measure to prevent evictions of renters suffering from lost income during the coronavirus pandemic, it…
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Rainscreen Details for a Board-and-Batten Retrofit
One thing on Drew Goldsack's spring cleaning punch list this year is removing the vinyl siding from his Alberta home and replacing it with cedar board-and-batten siding. As he explains…
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The BS* + Beer Show: Making Concrete More Sustainable
We've all heard it, and Bruce King confirms it in his presentation, concrete is responsible for 8% of global green house gas emissions. Concrete includes a number of ingredients, like…
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Wrinkled Housewrap Behind Exterior Rigid Foam
If you plan to install a layer of continuous rigid foam on the exterior side of your wall sheathing, where do you put the housewrap? There are many opinions on…
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HVAC Systems and the Spread of Coronavirus
Before this year, probably few people could list even five things they could do to keep themselves from getting a cold or the flu from someone in their house who…
