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TheEnergy Efficient Home Blog
http://theenergyefficienthomeblog.com/
Getting a positive return on investment for your home, through applying practical and cost-effective green, energy-efficient technologies.
- Added on: Nov 7th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: villagegreenhomes
- Listed in: Green Real Estate
- Tags: real estate home solar energy efficiency green technology geothermal
Recent Posts
Solar – Is it the Answer?
The next component of energy efficiency after figuring out the HVAC system is using photovoltaic to actually produce your energy and net meter to your local utility company. Photovoltaic has always had lots of hype. It is of course what we...
Hidden Energy Below
Annual average heating and cooling requirements vary across the country. In the Middle Atlantic Region they are pretty even. In our little microclimate here in Purcellville, we cool maybe 5-8 days more than we heat per year. In other regions, ...
DESIGN/BUILD – Philosophy of Building
The next step after choosing a location and a parcel of land based on sun orientation as well as size of lot, and walkability score was to get the Architect designing. We use a design/build approach as we have found that just designing and then tryin...
Green with Purpose… or Envy?
The idea of building green is a very attractive prospect to many, but has been perceived as cost prohibitive. Most of those that have been built have either not been conducive to family living, or have been priced at over a million dollars, putting s...
The highly anticipated Energy Efficient Home Blog goes live!
After 22 years as a remodeler and new home builder we have had a lot of experience helping people achieve some energy efficiencies by doing energy audits and retrofitting improvements or adding space that is extremely energy efficient. We ha...
