So you purchased some land and you are wondering where and in which direction to place your home? We currently know of three considerations which pretty much answer this question: We sleep with our heads in the east and our feet in the west. We’d like to benefit from passive-solar heat – which means most […]
Tag Archives: house
Heating Resources
We want to have a really pleasantly warm house when it gets cold outside. Building with hemp insures that we enjoy a wonderfully insulated home. Now we need to deal with heat – which includes both environmental heating and water heating. In typically built houses which tend to be cold when it gets cold outside […]
Look Out Romania – Here Come’s Hemp
We aren’t the only ones trying to do this … as I write these words Andreea is making calls … this is so happening đŸ™‚ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxQZ41-I1tk … this is Teodor Pop of Lux Perennial … which are associated with Hemp Technologies USA … which are associated with Lime Technologies UK.
Modece Architects
It’s been over a week that I’ve had the website for Modece Architects open in my browser. I really enjoyed the website – it feels like an authentically green site – one that actually walks the walk. Particularly I’ve browsed back and forth endlessly in the sustainable-construction gallery which has been quite an eye opener. […]
House Heating Requirements (revisited)
IMPORTANT: this note was added after the post was published but seemed important enough to be inserted at the beginning of the post. I am just now realizing that my perception of heating requirements are based on experience of poorly insulated homes. This is why I expect stoves to be lit numerous times a day. […]
Passivhaus
Introduction Passivhaus is one of the terms out there in eco-green-sustaintable building land. It may look like its spelled wrong but that’s because its originally from Germany. It represents a very strict and high standard of energy efficiency in a building. It isn’t (yet) an official requirement or standard but it is gathering momentum as […]
Interview with Ian Pritchett of Lime Technology
So pleasing to see a pleasant person who loves and believes in what he does. An interview with Ian Pritchett, Managing Director of Lime Technology:
Hempcrete Building
Informative video which did a great job of putting images to words:
Are Alternative Energy Technologies Relevant?
We are spending a lot of time looking at potential energy solutions – solar, wind, hydro, geothermal … anything and everything. There’s a lot of knowledge to be acquired and there are a lot of companies looking to sell their products and solutions. The one thing they all have going for them is a promise […]
Other Power + Costs
I came across this really useful website on alternative energy. It looks like it’s been gathering dust and it’s design is somewhat outdated but it’s information seems timeless. Whether you want to go about doing it yourself or to use commercial solutions – their website is a great resource of information – check out Other […]