The Northeast Sun Magazine is put out by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association twice a year. It is not a supper glossy magazine focused on ultra cool design. It is concerned with practical nuts and bolts sustainable energy issues for the Northeast US region. It is a good magazine to keep up to date on […]
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Solar Today Magazine is put out by the American Solar Energy Society, a leader in renewable energy with a tag line “Leading the Renewable Energy Revolution.” In many ways ASES does live up to their tag line. They are a great organization doing a lot of good work in the renewable energy field. The magazine
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Home Power Magazine is for those of us who wonder how much energy we could generate using solar panels. If that question isn’t interesting to you then this magazine won’t be either. The mag is all about getting energy from your house using solar, wind, water, and intelligent design (in that order). Most of the
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LEED uses the 500 mile radius as the benchmark for local materials. I don’t know why they picked that number. But it is as good as any I guess. 500 is what you could cover in one long day if you were really hauling it. By car, that is…. I don’t think you want more
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Home Energy Magazine is a mag for those green builders who believe the world can be saved through a more energy efficient home. It’s the mechanics and not really the people that will save us. Their magazine is full of reviews and pictures of houses without people. No people to be seen anywhere. Lots of
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In NY and Brooklyn it is normal to get double glazed windows. It is not normal to get triple glazing. But if you look at the attached file you will see that there is a large savings if you go with triple glazing. The attached doc also gives great explanations of how windows are rated
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Induction cookers are touted as the most green cooking tool since they consume less electricity. I found this on a wiki and thought it gave an interesting perspective. Unless you go with some of the VERY new and efficient ones you probably aren’t much more efficient than a gas cooker: Induction cookers are getting popular
Programmable thermostats are sometimes touted as a good way to save money. They are used to turn the heat down in the night when you are sleeping or during the day when you are at work out of the house. But in our green show house in Brooklyn we are not using programmable thermostats. We
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I went to the LED light trade show a couple weeks ago. It was way cool. They are making real progress for residential LED lighting. One technology that I especially liked was phosphorescent lenses that convert blue LED into visible light like a normal bulb. This varies from normal LED lights that combine the three
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We are installing radiant floor heating with pex tubes. We had a set of challenges: The floor height was low or the floor already had wood flooring on top of it. Radiant Subfloor In both these cases it did not work to put pex tubing OVER the subfloor. So we had to hang it below
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