Archive for Green Homes

Earthly Inspiration Brings Forth Environmentally Friendly Designs.

I struggled with a title for this post not because I didn’t know what to say; I just didn’t know how to say it. I may have to change it later when I can finally find the words to describe the work of Tyler Blaine. So for now, I’ll just tell you about and show [...]

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The Modern, Green Garage of my Dreams.

As an EcoBroker I am often asked where to go for certain green things needed in remodels and additions.  Something I have often been asked about, but haven’t had a good source for was garages.  Unless you designed your own a green garage meant the builder used his lumber scraps…. Well, with this post over [...]

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Garbett Homes is building something, new, modern and green in Utah’s Daybreak community.

While spec home are just that, spec homes and typically built en masse in communities where everything looks the same, it is always refreshing to see when someone breaks the mold and does something a little differently now and then. Garbett Homes is doing just that in Utah and I love the change. In the [...]

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Blu Homes – Continued Growth in A Down Economy

It is no secret that real estate has been in a state of decline for a while now and that decline has extended into what seemed to be a booming rebirth of prefab homes. The loss of MK Designs was a good example of this when she ceased marketing her prefab homes. This loss was [...]

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Living Green in 9th and 9th. – 1048 S. Lake, 84105

UPDATE: A Home Energy Rating was recently conducted on this home and it came back with a HERS score of 55! Click here to learn more about what a HERS rating means. Living green in the city is not always easy to do when the inventory of green homes is as small as it is. [...]

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EcoDrain – Make your cold water warm to heat your hot water less.

Quite some time ago I posted about the ReTherm drain water heat recovery system. It is a very cool system that uses the hot water going down your drain to heat the cold water going into your water heater. Doing so reduces the amount of heat needed to heat your hot water. Giving you a [...]

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Green retrofits make a 100+ year old home green.

The ecohome owned by Gil Schalom and Penney Poyzer and located in Nottingham, UK is an excellent example of everything that is right about turning existing home green. Granted there is a great need for new green homes and urban infill, but ultimately the greenest thing you can do is make an existing home green [...]

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The sun shines brightly and the wind blows on the stimulus package.

There is a silver lining to every cloud and from the reports I have been reading, the stimulus package is a big dark cloud. So where is the silver lining? Well, let’s look at the green lining as laid out in this Cnet article. Overall, there is $50 billion for energy programs, much of it [...]

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Insurance is getting greener everyday.

It has been some time since I last posted on the availability of insurance for green homes and insurance that would allow you to rebuild green. Since that time there have been some great developments in this area.

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Win the plans to your Green Dream Home at FreeGreen.com

We all have dreams of what our dream home would be like, many want it to be a green dream home. The problem is getting it designed and then built and finding the mony to do it all. Well, the folks over at FreeGreen could be bringing that dream one step closer to being a [...]

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