Green Choice - What The Pros Want
I took an informal poll recently about what green-building nerds want in homes and buildings. I posed a question in some LinkedIn...
Mid-Mod - Unhappy Days for Energy Efficiency
Mid 20th-century modern is some of the coolest design out there. Transporting California’s easy, breezy design to wherever else the...
Green Light Special - The Golden Age of LEDs
Walk down the lighting aisle of any big-box store, and you’ll see something you wouldn’t have five years ago – half the light bulbs...
Zero the Hero - Building Net-Zero with Bricks & Sticks
Net-zero is the new superhero in homes and buildings, and anything less is merely mortal. “Net-zero” can be defined lots of ways – in...
HERS Ratings - All That And A Bag of Chips
The “Home Energy Rating Score” boils all energy use in a home down to a “miles-per-gallon” number – like a window sticker in a car. One...
Green Seen - You Can Run ...
Finding out whether a home is energy-efficient (or not) is as close as a smart phone. HERS ratings, the industry standard for measuring...
Green Premium - Price Bump for Green Homes & Schrödinger’s Cat
A valuation premium for green homes and energy efficiency is a lot like Schrödinger’s cat, says a new study released by the Colorado...
GreenSpot Named NGBS Partner in Excellence
GreenSpot Energy & Sustainability was recently named a “Partner in Excellence” by the certifying overseer for the National Green Building...
Off the Shelf - LEED & NGBS As Building Code
Cities grafting green-building certifications like LEED into commercial building codes is nothing new, and a number of places like...
Green Stamps - Investor Sells Green-and-Flips for More
Real estate investor Kassi Pelley had bought and sold a number of “fix-and-flip” homes in metro Denver when she fell down the rabbit hole...
