DOE Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Each year, the Housing Innovation Awards honor the top builders in the country who are leading the Zero Energy Ready Home (ZERH) movement. It’s an exciting time for us not only because … Continue reading →
By George Harvey Jamie Myers, who operates J. Myers Builders in Lisbon, New Hampshire, has been interested in the environment and recycling for a long time. Years ago, he did research to find out what uses there were for … Continue reading →
By Steven Winter Associates staff Hear the term “solar energy” and you’re likely to think of vast fields of glistening panels and hillsides transformed into disco balls. Hear the term “solar energy” and you might picture suburban McMansions with roofs … Continue reading →
By Barbara and Greg Whitchurch It might very well be downtown Portland’s greenest building — especially the exterior, which is painted various shades of bright green. But what’s going on beneath its surface and inside its walls is what makes … Continue reading →
By James Hansen and Sophie Kivlehan We are a 76-year-old grandfather and his oldest grandchild, who just graduated from high school in Pennsylvania. We are among 22 plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by Our Children’s Trust on behalf of young … Continue reading →
Hope from Rocky Mountain Institute By George Harvey Recent news on climate change has looked rather dismal. For those who feel dismayed, I have some good news. A report was issued by the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), just as Green … Continue reading →
By Dr. Alan K. Betts Our cool season garden has grown well in June and July with so much rain. By the summer solstice, the last of the head lettuce that had wintered over was gone, but many more rows … Continue reading →
VT Climate Action Commission, Outbreak of Tent Caterpillars, and Rediscovery of Winged Loosestrife by Kirsti Blow, Center for Research on Vermont Following 14 states’ creation of the U.S. Climate Alliance in a vow to uphold the 2015 Paris Agreement, Governor … Continue reading →
By George Harvey I spent an appreciable part of my childhood at a house in the southwest corner of New Hampshire. In those days, sixty years ago, we had a lot of mosquitoes. In fact, we could not go out … Continue reading →
E-book by Climate Reality Project By Rick Wackernagel The Climate Reality Project recently released an e-book “Climate Change and the Water Cycle: Four Big Questions Answered.” In writing this e-book, the author shows good instincts but falls short in executing … Continue reading →