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Housing and Human Health
What is “healthy housing”? Scientists don’t really know for sure, but that hasn’t stopped green builders from making poorly supported claims about “healthy” and “unhealthy” homes. No one really knows…
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U.S. Recycling Efforts Stumble as Chinese Trade Rules Sink In
Many U.S. households continue to recycle cardboard, paper, and plastic, but a change in China's import rules is sending more of this material to landfills and incinerators as recycling programs…
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2019 Is the Year of Energy Codes
If there’s a defining theme for the building sector in 2019, it’s energy codes. Actions to update the rules that cities and states set to determine how effectively new residential…
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Frugal Happy: We Have a Floor on Our Ceiling
Editor’s Note: This post is one of a series by Chris Stratton and Wen Lee, a husband-and-wife team living in the Los Angeles area who are turning their 1963 suburban…
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Want Clean Indoor Air? Don’t Bank on Houseplants
Finding articles online that extoll the many air-cleansing benefits of houseplants is a cinch, but the assertions are mostly hype with little grounding in fact. So writes Robinson Meyer in…
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High Humidity in the Attic
Jason Advani thought he was on the right track when he insulated the bottom of the roof deck in his walk-up attic with closed-cell spray foam. As planned, the R-40…
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New Green Building Products
This week I’ll take a look at four new products of interest to residential builders: a supply fan from Panasonic, a high-efficiency HRV from Quebec, triple-glazed windows manufactured in New…
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Is the Green New Deal Just a Pipe Dream?
The Green New Deal that Democratic lawmakers recently proposed would confront climate change by eliminating America’s net carbon emissions within a decade. If enacted, it would transform America’s energy industries…
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Mitsubishi Launches Integrated Solar Home and Car System
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation is using the Geneva International Motor Show to roll out the Dendo Drive House, an energy system that allows two-way power sharing between a home battery and…
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Three Types of Heat Pump Heat
Since more people are using heat pumps these days, even in cold climates, let's spell out the three different types of heat that conventional heat pumps provide. Why not? We've…
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