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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - Air conditioners use the most electricity of any home appliance. Here's how to reduce energy usage in cooling your home.
- A survey of local home building associations and recent updates reveal that more than 100,000 homes have been built and certified by voluntary, builder-supported green building programs around the country since the mid-1990s, according to the National Association of Home Builders.
- 16 tips from the U.S. Green Building Council will help you take the steps to green cost-effectiveness.
- Greening a house that was built before we knew to care isn't impossible; here are 45 tips.
- A growing number of environmentally conscious homeowners are using a home energy system that is really down-to-earth.
- One of the most important ideas to emerge in recent years is the concept that a house is much more than an assemblage of materials. Instead, building scientists and researchers now view a house as an interactive system.
- All green building programs require mechanical ventilation individually designed for each house.
- This article describes the design, construction and guiding philosophy of the first healthy house built by John Bower (founder of the original Healthy House Institute) in the early 1990s. Although times have changed and technology has advanced, Bower's founding principles - "eliminate, separate, ventilate" - pictured by the three green vertical bars of the current HHI logo, still apply.
- The Healthy House Institute built a model demonstration house designed to optimize occupant health by minimizing indoor air pollution.
- The Home Ventilating Institute (HVI) offers guidelines on how to select the right ventilation system for your home, how much air it should move and why, types of ventilation systems, and where to get more information on ventilation standards.
- From The Healthy House Answer Book: Answers to the 133 most commonly asked questions. Questions 81-87.
- Reducing heat buildup which can reach 150°F on hot summer days, and moisture in the winter, are the two main goals of attic ventilation.
- Rather than leaving ventilation to chance, these systems exchange stale air for fresh air in your home, while helping to maintain indoor climate control.
- A healthy house needs balanced airflow.
- Green homes link sustainable materials and practices with better human and environmental health.
- Tips for building or retrofitting your home for energy efficiency, cost-savings, and indoor air quality
- The Green Home Guide offers tips for a better, greener life.
- John Bower's advice on building healthy homes.
- From The Healthy House Answer Book: Answers to the 133 most commonly asked questions. Questions 111-118.
- In early 2007 Kevin and Kathy Christopherson set about building a home in Hanover, Wisconsin. This was no ordinary new home construction, though. Since Kathy has an acute chemical sensitivity, special precautions were necessary – precautions that presented some particularly challenging construction issues.
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