Some of her ideas for a green home remodeling are:
- Have a home energy audit, you can even get it for free through your city or through your energy company. Worst case you pay someone to come by, and even then you’ll end up saving money by finding out what holes you need to patch or windows you might need to change.
- If you’re interested in having solar energy in your home, definitely make sure to have a home energy audit before installing it, you won’t believe how much money you could save just by closing up holes. Not only that, you’ll need a much smaller solar power and you’ll end up saving money there too!
- Read the labels, find out exactly what kind of furniture you’re putting inside your home, your carpet, paint, and even cleaning products can be very toxic and could be harming your health.

Here are the kinds of services they offer, in between others: green interior design, green remodeling, green architecture and green construction.

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Do you want to participate in the competition?
check http://www.os-house.org

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To demonstrate the green technologies we have designed an electronically controlled house to enable students and teachers to manipulate various transducers and measure the results. In the US almost 50% of all household energy use is for heating, ventilation and air conditioning.

The LJ ECO House:
All of the systems and transducers are controlled by a microcomputer board that is mounted in a sealed area up in the front roof space — underneath the roof section which bears the two type of Solar system.

The electronic sophistication of this product is illustrated by the single multi-function controller and display. Pressing the knob changes between the various functions and activates the various transducers in the Eco House.

Controller unit for the Eco HouseThe electronic sophistication of this product is illustrated by the single multi-function controller and display. Pressing the knob changes between the various functions and activates the various transducers in the Eco House.

Eco house includes both PV (photo voltaic) electric cells and a wet solar thermal system.

Eco House Solar PanelIn a clever twist we are using the current generated by the PV cells (left) to power the pump. This pump pushes water through the glass tubes and manifolds (right) then back into a tank that is situated in the rear roof space.

The efficiency of this system is dramatically improved as students slide different sheets behind the glass tubes. When backed with a highly reflective surface the results are extraordinary, the water heats to a temperature in excess of 75 degrees in minutes when the external lamp is illuminated.

Power Input sockets for the Eco HouseEco house comes complete with a small scale external wind turbine. The input for this turbine, or optional additional PV cells, is on the back of the house.

The electronic controls need a constant source of electricity, so we also provide a DC supply.

Any energy that is generated by the PV cells or the wind turbine is stored in the house using a super capacitor.

Internal measurements are based on two ‘rooms’. The front is the heat room. We have included incandescent and led lighting to demonstrate the difference in energy consumption and heat generation. Different insulation materials and glazing are also variables used in these heating activities. We have included a large glazed area to measure the difference that passive cooling (shading) can make.

The rear room is air conditioned. The removable ceiling demonstrates the difference in energy required to cool open areas and cathedral ceilings. The inclusion of an air conditioning system also gives us the basis for a description of the operation of heat pump systems.
All the required sensors are built into the house. However we have incorporated entry points for external probes to accommodate long and short term experimentation using data loggers. This product will be an ideal application for Science departments that are looking for a real-world application.

The Eco house is designed to be used with a software site license for whole class instruction. So it is large enough to be used for front-of-class demonstrations.

See http://www.LJCreate.com/Green for more details.

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