January 2009 - The Green Home

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Sun Tunnels Offer Advantages over Flat Skylights

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by Jann Swanson on January 29 2009, 12:47 PM

The second type of skylight is a tubular device marketed under generic and brand of names including Solatube®, Sun Tunnel, sun or solar tubes. Tubular skylights are just what the name implies - a narrow reflective metal tube which conveys natural...

Filed under: sun tubes, sun tunnels, tubular skylight
Let the Sunshine in

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by Jann Swanson on January 28 2009, 2:47 PM

Saving energy can be such a flinty, Vermont Yankee sort of a thing. Don't get us wrong, if more of us were flinty Vermont Yankees the world would be in a lot better shape; still it is nice to talk about an energy saving home feature that is actually...

Filed under: skylights
Manufacturers Find that Green Pays

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by Jann Swanson on January 22 2009, 2:42 PM

Speakers at the National Association of Home Builders annual International Builders' Show currently going on in Las Vegas reported yesterday that more and more consumers are seeking green products, especially those that focus on energy and water efficiency...

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Geothermal Heat Pumps, Costly but Energy Efficient

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by Jann Swanson on January 20 2009, 6:27 PM

We have spoken of heat pumps and of an ancient form of geothermal energy that can heat and light homes. Now a fairly recent innovation has wedding the two and made possible a source of home heat and cooling that can be used virtually everywhere in the...

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Geothermal Heating - The Old is New Again

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by Jann Swanson on January 16 2009, 9:51 AM

A traditional heat pump extracts heat from the air - even very cold air - and uses it to warm an interior space and then conversely pulls heat from the inside air and exports it to cool the space, a geothermal heating/cooling system. Operating on the...

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A Heat Pump Primer

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by Jann Swanson on January 14 2009, 11:20 AM

One of the most exciting energy sources available to the homeowner is hardly new, but it is terrifically underused probably because so few people know it exists. Geothermal energy can heat or cool a home and even heat the domestic water supply, but to...
While we are on the Subject of Wood

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by Jann Swanson on January 12 2009, 11:25 AM

Since a recent topic on this blog has been wood, a word or two about Bamboo . We will, at some point, get into the remarkable utility and beauty of products made from this wood, but this is about the tree. Bamboo is sustainable and replaceable; its shoots...

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Engineered Wood Doesn't Always Grow on Trees

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by Jann Swanson on January 09 2009, 1:06 PM

Engineered wood has many things going for it in the green home category. We have already mentioned that, while wood is a sustainable and renewable building material it does not grow big enough quickly enough to that there is enough of the resource still...

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Digital Switch-Over May Trigger Trash Problems

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by Jann Swanson on January 07 2009, 1:02 PM

As you might have heard, only about 75 times a day, on February 17, 2009 all television broadcasts will switch from analog to digital transmission . TV viewers receiving a signal from cable or satellite companies will not be affected and in fact will...
Gray Water is Best Recycled in the Great Outdoors

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by Jann Swanson on January 06 2009, 3:05 PM

As an aside to the two recent articles on roof rainwater collection, a word about "gray water." The concept of building or retrofitting a home with gray water recycle systems and storage tanks is getting a lot of press lately. The idea is to...
Engineered Wood Slowly Replacing the Real Thing

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by Jann Swanson on January 05 2009, 1:01 PM

Wood is the most environmentally friendly of all structural building materials available today because it is renewable and sustainable . However, timber does have many limitations when it comes to constructing a home. First of all, while it is renewable...

Filed under: osb, Glulam, plywood, engineered wood
For the Serious (Rainwater) Collector

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by Jann Swanson on January 01 2009, 8:58 PM

From a barrel sitting under a down spout rainwater collection can increase dramatically in capacity, complexity, and cost. The above-ground rain barrels we talked about earlier in the week are limited by size. The larger barrels aren't very attractive...

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