I have been reading a brand new book by Brian Dumaine from Fortune and Time and other august establishments. It’s called The Plot to Save the Planet
My first response to reading this was “Wow!”
There are a lot of different organizations working from many different angles trying to come up with products ands methods to […]

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I said my next post was going to be on President Bush’s state of the union address, but it was so boring to listen to…
But I did listen to public radio this morning: Earth and Sky was talking to R.K. Stewart. Stewart is the 2007 President of the AIA, the American Institute of Architects.
Stewart […]

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At home I have two rooms that have solar tubes come in and light up the rooms during the day. One is a small bathroom. The other is a family room with too few windows. The solar tubes are kind of like skylights except that the tubes bring the light to the room […]

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From Beligium is a project that caught my attention recently. Passive House denotes a specific construction standard for residential buildings with good comfort conditions during winter and summer, without traditional heating systems and without active cooling.
Typically this includes very good insulation levels, very good airtightness of the building, while a good indoor air quality […]

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