Re-Greening Your Home Remodel

By Rebecca Firestone

Just when we thought there couldn’t be any more how-to manuals for green building – LEED, GreenPoint checklists, the Title 24 Residential Compliance Manual – along comes another one that might be the best one yet. The 2008 Residential Remodeling Guidelines from Regreen.org (a partnership between the ASID and the USGBC) is clearly written, persuasive,

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October 19th, 2009 | Category: Building Green, LEED | One comment |

Efficiency is cheap, but will it sell?

By Elisa Wood

Expect to see this number a lot in energy discussions over the next few years: 2.5 cents/kWh. It is the average cost of energy efficiency, a figure pegged this week in a new report by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.

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September 29th, 2009 | Category: Building Green, Energy Efficiency, LEED, NAHB Guidelines, NAHB Standard | Leave a comment |