Housing Transformation Is Coming To Minnesota
Green Home Club helped secure a new Local Climate Action Grant from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to launch an initiative that could revolutionize how housing is approached in St. Paul and beyond.
Even In Minnesota, Finding A Green Home For Sale Is Harder Than You’d Think…
One of my favorite books is Jane Smiley’s Good Faith, about Joe Stratford, a real estate agent in the 1980s boom times.
From Theory to Action: Meeting A Home Performance Contractor
Brian Larson of Air Seal Tech on Making Energy Upgrades Worth It
The Plan: What To Do With This Century-Old Charmer
It takes a plan to decarbonize a hundred-year-old house, but it is so necessary to save the planet.
To Build or Rehab: Navigating The Path To A Green Home
When a home is old and inefficient, the conversation around achieving sustainability can quickly turn into a debate…
The Goal: Decarbonizing A 100-Year-Old Home
Decarbonizing our 100-year-old home for future generations is not only possible but required to achieve our climate goals.
Always A Hard Choice: Deep Retrofit Or Teardown
Renovating an old home or building to be energy efficient instead of tearing it down may conserve embodied carbons and align with reuse goals, but this 1930 library is scheduled for demolition anyway.
Greenest Homes In America: Assessing State Performance
What I ended up with was a simple equation:
1) Average BTUs consumed per household in each state
2) Adjusted by impact of weather and the size of homes in each state.
3) Then: A ranking by an estimate of CO2 emissions per Btu in each state.
Comparing Our Home’s Energy Use To An All-Electric Neighbor
Even leaving out the solar energy that Mark’s home gives back to the grid, his scored impressively on the EPA's scale, which ranges from zero to a hundred. Still, I couldn’t let a 90-point gap between our two homes stand.