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Counting Savings If you swapped out your 25-year-old refrigerator-freezer with a brand new one last year, you could chill your cartons of milk and home-cooked casseroles just as well as ever, while using 44% less energy. That’s a pretty attractive deal, especially considering that the new refrigerator–freezer you brought home was likely to be larger [...]
How Does a Passive House Actually Perform in the Deep South? The first Passive House built in the steamy climate of southern Louisiana, and profiled in Recreating the American Home: The Passive House Approach by Mary James, was inevitably an experiment—a novel application of Passive House principles to a challenging climate. Built by owner-architect, Corey [...]
dasHAUS Tour and Conference: “Prefab and Passive House” Passive House California is pleased to partner with dasHAUS to bring this excellent exhibit of current German building technology to San Francisco. Join us for a special edition of our monthly meeting, featuring a site tour with Meredith Marsh (dasHAUS Project Coordinator for the United States), three [...]
THE NET-ZERO ENERGY HOUSE – PROPELLING GREEN BUILDING CONCEPTS INTO MAINSTREAM Thurs, Feb. 23rd • 9.00am-2.00pm Fort Mason Center (Marina Blvd and Buchanan St.), San Francisco, CA ________________________________________________________________________________________________ FREE to attend, but registration is required. REGISTER NOW! Download PDF Program: dasHAUS San Francisco – Feb 17-26 – Conference Program ________________________________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM 9:00am Registration & [...]
On-Bill Financing Extends Opportunities for Energy Efficiency Investments to Historically Underserved Markets such as Multifamily Housing and Small Businesses Washington, D.C. (December 8, 2011): On-bill financing, an innovative tool that allows customers to pay for energy efficiency investments though their utility bills, is becoming more widely available across the country and extending opportunities [...]
