Green Energy Times

look at how buildings can be a part of a regenerative land use pattern.
Using local, natural materials for building and how they are used in high performance design… community based development patterns that integrate agriculture and affordability. Montpelier, VT

Let’s tell Montpelier that the faster we move towards a renewable energy future, the better we will stand in our fight against climate change.

PACE – the Property Assessed Clean Energy program – is ready to move forward in Vermont. Many of you are already working hard to make that happen. We want to help ensure you have access to the support and resources you need to do that.

We have until 2017 to get our carbon emissions down!

whether and how to require disclosure of the energy efficiency of commercial and residential buildings in order to make data on building energy performance visible in the marketplace for real property and inform the choice of those who may purchase or rent such property.”

Dear EarthTalk: I recently saw a reference to “Enertia houses” that require little in the way of external sources for heating or cooling. Do you have any information on this housing design? – Alan Marshfield, via e-mail Enertia is a brand name for homes designed and sold in kits by North Carolina-based Enertia Building Systems [...]

The newest issue of Green Energy Times (G.E.T.) – October 15, 2011 is available on-line and in a town near you this week!

The test is being performed on residential windows of an energy efficient home that is constructed with Structurally Insulated Panels and triple pane windows and doors. R-value in the roof is R-47 and the walls are R-38, with log siding. The passive solar, well-insulated home

GMC has certainly done their homework – GET is so impressed to learn about all they are doing. We can all benefit hugely from their example!   Type of Building: 5500sf (includes 1500 sf of old Herrick Building) Post and Beam Visitor Center, built in 2009 by Jeff Schoellkopf, Architect/Designer and JA Morrissey, Builder, with [...]

The Bosarge Family Education Center at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, to achieve Net Zero Energy The recently opened Bosarge Family Education Center is situated at one of Maine’s premier tourist destinations and is being hailed as the “greenest building in Maine.” Designed through a collaboration between Maclay Architects of Waitsfield, VT and Scott Simons [...]