I sat in on a Department of Energy webinar on photovoltaic solutions this afternoon. It was from the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy group. The entire presentation is posted online here – Solar PV Webinar: In My Backyard and Open PV Mapping Project. I found a couple of useful items for our blog readers. Check [...]

I love accountability and think it is the best way to change/incent behavior. From a recent blog from Jetson Green (I told you I found all sorts of great things on his site!), Energy Performance Scores (EPS) is a rating of the total energy consumption of a home with an associated carbon emission score. To [...]

I know that there is debate in the community on the quantifiable value of the value of green-labeled buildings. And even the number when it is quantified, but here is a 2009 study from the Henley School of Business which reports that Energy Star buildings sell for 10% more than comparable non-green-labeled buildings, while LEED [...]

Everyone remembers the food pyramid from grammar school right? The Green Building Advisor now has an Energy Efficiency Pyramid. I found this interesting pyramid on Jetson Green’s blog that I mentioned yesterday here. Here is the pyramid: The conservation pyramid has 10 levels that, as you climb from the bottom, become increasingly more expensive and [...]

I ran across a great website and blog, Jetson Green last week after I was sent his post about the 4th Annual Green Building Survey. By the way, the survey was conducted in February 2010 (yeah, recent and current opinion polls) and covers 1600 respondents. The full Green Building Survey is here. The Jetson Green [...]