Archive for July, 2010Solar and Wind Step by Step Become independent and produce your own sustainable energy. Anyone can do it! www.earth4energy.com Free Energy? Is it a hoax or does it really exist? Get the manual for constructing your own energy generator www.magniwork.com DYI Solar Panel Save thousands by learning how to make your own solar panels for less than $200 www.greendiyenergy.com Alternate Energy Best Deals Get everything from a great advice to the last screw for your sustainable house project www.altestore.com what would be a good way to analyze and collect data on a project where i am trying to find out if whether sustainable buildings improve worker productivity (in the buildings they occupy), or not, and if it cuts utility costs, etc. basically sustainable deisgn vs. regular building design. how would i experiment or at least collect data? any ideas ? i want to do a project on this and have no idea on how I should go about it. To collect data you would compare rates for monthly utilities between the two types of buildings and show that sustainable uses less money to upkeep than the other. As far as worker productivity there will be no way to effectively determine the effect of the building layout on this property as it is dependent on the workers and their comfort level/willingness to work.
Sander Architects is the international award-winning firm whose approach to contemporary residential design has been making waves in the architecture world. Their Hybrid House uses components of prefab technology to create homes that are custom designed for each client. Homes that are not only green but also very high design. This is a time of extraordinary change for practitioners in the design fields and Sander Architects is a young exciting firm determined to be at the forefront of green architecture. Sander Architects has been awarded the Dedalo Minosse International Award for Architecture in 2002 and 2004, along with Pritzker Prize winners Richard Meier and Hans Hollein. Numerous other national awards include AIA awards in 1996 and 2003, Architecture Magazine’s Home of the Year, and Architectural Record’s House of the Month. Publications include magazines such as Dwell, GA: Global Architecture, New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as well as the Los Angeles Times Magazine. Their work has been widely published in books such as Another 100 of the World’s Best Houses, noted architecture critic Michael Webb’s Brave New Houses, Adventures in Southern California Living, and various titles by author James Grayson Truelove. Recently the firm was a semi-finalist in the 2006 Living Steel Competition — which highlights the firm in their “Featured Architects” section (visit the site) — as well as semi-finalists in the 2006 Global Green Sustainable Housing Competition, sponsored by Brad Pitt, to design low-income housing for post-Katrina New Orleans. Sander Architects seeks to find a balance between poetry and pragmatics. Starting with essential elements: environment, program, site restrictions, we encourage forms to develop which satisfy these basic needs while embracing the possibility of the poetic. In this way, a house for an Orthopedic Surgeon becomes a covert study in anatomy: metaphorical skin and bones. The elements that make up an aerobics studio, its interior architecture and furniture, take on physical tendencies: tension, compresion, torsion, sinew. The entry for a sculptor’s house is a ‘vessel’ whose propotions are based on a large-scale clay jar produced by the owner. These strategies are covert, not obvious, and allow the built environment to resonate thematically with the program and the people who use it. It is a strategy of innuendo, not declaration, a struggle with nuance, an attempt at quiet fertility. If the work celebrates what it means to inhabit, in grander terms, the work is a celebration of man’s rhythms and rituals. Duration : 0:9:43
In this ecourse you’ll learn all about: 1. Part 1 – Determining current costs. Let’s go ahead & get started today with “Cost over savings analysis”. Part 2 – Cost over savings analysis Because the world is in a fuel crisis and the cost of gas and other energy means continues to rise, there are those not so nice guys out there that are promoting products that are anything but a way to save money. These products may work, but probably do not. The trick is that you need to know before you purchase them if in fact they are something that is cost effective or if they are something that will be a waste of your hard earned money. We can help you with a few good tips about purchasing any item that may be presented to you as a way to save energy on your home’s fuel usage. Take some time to really think about what you are investing in before you do so. This alone can save you money. Tips For Analyzing Benefit Take these tips to heart: • What is the product promising to do for you? Any product that is promising amazing results is probably not providing them. If there was a miracle product out there, wouldn’t we all have it by now? • What is the cost of this product in the first place? How much will it cost you to purchase, install and then use this product? • Does this cost actually figure any savings to you within the first days of use? In other words, it should be able to immediately help you to save money on your energy needs. • Finally, how long will it take you to make up the difference in the cost of the product over the amount of money you have invested in it? If you can not get your costs back quick enough, it too may not be the right choice for your needs. When you take these things into consideration, you will find yourself better able to understand the true benefit of any supposed energy savings gadget that is out there. Next time we’ll be discussing alittle about “Getting started finding your biggest needs”. For more information about this part of Cost over savings analysis, please refer to my definitive guide to energy efficient homes at : Duration : 0:2:25
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Tad and Maria were feature on Oprah on Earth Day: www.oregonlive.com/hg/index.ssf/2010/04/ oprah_winfry_eart… Duration : 0:1:50
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The most important contribution Autodesk can make to sustainability is to provide our customers with the very best design innovation software—enabling smarter, more sustainable design decisions at every step of the design process. Our mission is to: • Empower our customers to make simpler, smarter, more sustainable design decisions Duration : 0:7:20
SELCO-India is a private business which has designed and sold over 48,000 solar home systems, powering electric lighting and small appliances for 220,000 people in Karnataka and other states in South India. Around 46% of households in India do not have mains electricity, and for many others the supply is unreliable. The use of photovoltaic (PV) solar-home-systems (SHS) can provide reliable power for lighting and low-power appliances, which brings great practical benefits. Smoky, dangerous kerosene light is avoided, people have extended hours for work and study, and more opportunities for leisure and entertainment. Many programmes throughout the world have attempted to improve quality of life using SHS, but often they have not led to long term use and continuing markets. SELCO-India believes that the use of SHS will become widespread only if the system and after-sales service are of high quality, and if people want an SHS enough to pay for it. What they provide is properly designed and installed systems, excellent on-the-spot service and links to organisations which offer appropriate and affordable finance. The Ashden judges were highly impressed with the philosophy and excellent management within SELCO-India: they have built a thriving business by providing poor people with a high quality product and service. Duration : 0:5:5
Duration : 0:10:0 Solar and Wind Step by Step Become independent and produce your own sustainable energy. Anyone can do it! www.earth4energy.com Free Energy? Is it a hoax or does it really exist? Get the manual for constructing your own energy generator www.magniwork.com DYI Solar Panel Save thousands by learning how to make your own solar panels for less than $200 www.greendiyenergy.com Alternate Energy Best Deals Get everything from a great advice to the last screw for your sustainable house project www.altestore.com |
Whitney Sander came Center Stage with Mark Gordon to talk about the work he and his firm is doing to create greener buildings. 
http://Haira-HomeEnergy.blogspot.com — Cost over savings analysis
A brownfield site in Inverness that has lain derelict for over 15 years will be transformed to provide 100 sustainable homes, backed by Scottish Government funding, Highland Housing Alliance has purchased the Glendoe Terrace site in Merkinch near the city centre – with £1 million finance from The Highland Council and £530,000 Vacant & Derelict Land funding provided by the Scottish Government.
Of Oprah fame, we visited the home of Tad and Maria Everhart in Portland Oregon, to see SeriousWindows in play in an exemplar energy efficiency retrofit – under Passive House super-insulation and super-air tight standards. 
http://www.blueoceanhomes.info call 877 961-2332
AtwaterPlacehttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/atwaterplacePeoplevideo, 06, 01Sustainable Architecture Part 1
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This video can be downloaded here: http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/selco SELCO won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2005. To find out more visit the link above and check out the Ashden Awards Blog http://ashdenawards.blogspot.com
“A building that teaches, that walks its talk”: Plans for our new Sustainable Living Center, which will be a “living building.” It goes beyond LEED Platinum Certification, giving back more power and water than it uses.