http://creategreenhome.com/blog Open forum for home owners, green professionals and building community to learn, and exchange experiences about building a green home Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:06:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Looking at the current old stock and all the newly built houses here in the US, it seems to me that conventional stick built homes just do not cut it anymore in terms of thermal performance, durability or quality. So, what is the alternative? While searching for an example of 'next ... http://creategreenhome.com/blog/2008/10/22/what-is-the-next-generation-home/ While building a new home in northern Italy, a young family did not think twice about using energy efficient features to reduce their dependence on the expensive energy sources. First of all, the house has a well insulated building envelope, where external walls (45cm thick) and the roof have multiple ... http://creategreenhome.com/blog/2008/10/22/solar-hot-water-system-drastically-reduces-use-of-natural-gas/ It seems that Europeans are readily adopting Green technologies and incorporating them in their everyday life. An example of that is a Solar Hot Water system installed on a home in Hannover in northern Germany. Shortly after they purchased their new home, family Heinrich decided to upgrade their heating system ... http://creategreenhome.com/blog/2008/07/18/solar-hot-water-brings-significant-benefits-to-a-german-family/ Recently I attended a web cast where the topic was on energy efficiency. The author made a number of provocative statements but the main message was that since improvements in energy efficiency have been a constant effort in the past decades, are we running out of the potential for further ... http://creategreenhome.com/blog/2008/06/23/energy-efficiency-untangible-goal/ This is an open forum for home owners, green professionals and building community to learn, exchange experiences and swap best practices about building and living in a green home. I'd like you to speak about this topic with passion, I know I will, since it deserves our full attention in order ... http://creategreenhome.com/blog/2008/06/17/welcome-to-create-green-home-blog/