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Energy-Efficient Home Appliances: Furnaces, Boilers and Air Conditioners
The first step to building an energy-efficient home is using green building techniques to form an ultra-tight building envelope. The next step is...
Energy efficient homes
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7 Steps to Living in a Green Home
By Doug Selby It might seem like a net-zero energy green home is difficult to achieve, but the truth is there is a pretty simple formula with seven...
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Is Healthy Indoor Air Quality Good For the Planet?
Healthy Air Quality In Your Home – It’s Good For You and For the Planet By Doug Selby According to the EPA we typically spend about 90% of our time...
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What is a Passive House?
By: Doug Selby I recently completed my training to become a Certified Passive House Consultant, a rigorous program with about 100 hours of intensive...
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Practicing What We Preach and Preaching What We Practice
It’s one thing to come to work and start talking up the idea of living a more resource-efficient lifestyle to our clients; it’s another thing to...
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How to Keep Your Home Cool
As the temperature and humidity rises, so does the cost of cooling our homes. It’s easy to turn on air conditioners to keep the heat down, but we...
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Bringing it Home and Keeping it All in the Family
We have stepped outside of our usual geographic area and headed north to Midland to help build a home that we are pretty darn excited about. With...
Ann Arbor’s MLive Covers Future-Ready Green Home
Lizzy Alfs’s MLive article, “Lower Burns Park house converted to deep green single-family home,” showcases Meadowlark’s recently finished gut/rehab...
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George Jetson Could Live Here
Okay…so it’s not high up on a very tall pedestal with flying cars all around, but this home has technology in it that would make George Jetson proud!...