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Solar Strides
Before most people were interested in energy conservation, David and Laura Sill were green pioneers. In 1998 they built a Victorian-style house in Reisterstown, which was designed to one day accommodate solar panels, and in 2004, a set of photovoltaic panels big enough to provide about 30 to 40 percent of the family’s energy needs, [...]
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Indoor Air Quality
In this, the fifth and final article in our series outlining the standards for green building as presented by the US Green Building Council’s LEED for Homes and the National Association of Homebuilders Model Green Home Guidelines, we turn to indoor air quality.
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Materials and Resources
ChesapeakeHome continues its five part series by taking another look at two just-released national rating systems for green residential development and their guidelines for materials and resources: the United States Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Homes and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Model Green Home Building Guidelines.
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Energy and Atmosphere
This is the third in a series of articles in which ChesapeakeHome takes a look at two just-released national rating systems for green residential development: the United States Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Homes and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Model Green Home Building Guidelines.
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Water Efficiency
In our last issue, ChesapeakeHome introduced a series of articles on green home rating systems for new construction. Chief among these are LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for Homes, and the NAHB Model Green Home Building Guidelines. This is the second of five articles dealing with the rating categories of sustainable sites, water [...]
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The Sustainable Site
In the past six years, the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy (USGBC) and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system has become recognized as a useful guide to evaluating the “greenness” of commercial construction. There has been no corresponding guide for the homeowner who would like to save energy, build healthy, or help the environment.
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