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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - Air conditioners use the most electricity of any home appliance. Here's how to reduce energy usage in cooling your home.
- A survey of local home building associations and recent updates reveal that more than 100,000 homes have been built and certified by voluntary, builder-supported green building programs around the country since the mid-1990s, according to the National Association of Home Builders.
- Greening a house that was built before we knew to care isn't impossible; here are 45 tips.
- A growing number of environmentally conscious homeowners are using a home energy system that is really down-to-earth.
- One of the most important ideas to emerge in recent years is the concept that a house is much more than an assemblage of materials. Instead, building scientists and researchers now view a house as an interactive system.
- This article describes the design, construction and guiding philosophy of the first healthy house built by John Bower (founder of the original Healthy House Institute) in the early 1990s. Although times have changed and technology has advanced, Bower's founding principles - "eliminate, separate, ventilate" - pictured by the three green vertical bars of the current HHI logo, still apply.
- The Healthy House Institute built a model demonstration house designed to optimize occupant health by minimizing indoor air pollution.
- From The Healthy House Answer Book: Answers to the 133 most commonly asked questions. Questions 81-87.
- Rather than leaving ventilation to chance, these systems exchange stale air for fresh air in your home, while helping to maintain indoor climate control.
- A healthy house needs balanced airflow.
- Green homes link sustainable materials and practices with better human and environmental health.
- The Green Home Guide offers tips for a better, greener life.
- John Bower's advice on building healthy homes.
- From The Healthy House Answer Book: Answers to the 133 most commonly asked questions. Questions 111-118.
- In early 2007 Kevin and Kathy Christopherson set about building a home in Hanover, Wisconsin. This was no ordinary new home construction, though. Since Kathy has an acute chemical sensitivity, special precautions were necessary – precautions that presented some particularly challenging construction issues.
- A preventive, systematic approach to health, safety and comfort is a homeowner’s best defense against poor air quality, unexpected breakdowns and expensive repairs.
- Thanks to good science, we now know that bigger isn't better.
- Chemists are creating a new generation of laundry detergents that work well in cold water, save energy, and have healthier ingredients.
- Selecting and maintaining heat recovery ventilators and energy recovery ventilators (HRV/ERVs).
- Death and illness from carbon monoxide poisoning are preventable.
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