Hard to believe, but in 14 seconds, the sun provides all the energy that the earth uses in one day. Most of the energy striking the Earth is not utilized, yet more and more people are building...
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Passive Solar Living in Washington State
How Styrofoam Can Be Recycled
After moving out of the mountains to the city, because I saw Styrofoam waste almost everywhere I looked, I decided to try to collect and do something with it. This is a story of how I recycled...
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How Styrofoam is Used in Building
I wanted to understand how expanded polystyrene (EPS) products are being currently used in building structures to make them more efficient. This post is part of How Styrofoam Can Be Recycled for Building. This post looks...
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What is Styrofoam?
This is the start of “Why I did a Styrofoam Recycling – Building Project“. - After moving out of the mountains to the Front Range (Denver-Boulder area), I was amazed at the amount of waste generated in...
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A Modern Solar House for Sunny Florida
Originating from the sunny, warm, humid climate of Florida, four schools representing the University of South Florida, Florida State University, the University of Central Florida, and the University of Florida combined their efforts to create a lofty,...
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Presentation for the Sustainable Living Fair
I’m giving a Passive Solar presentation at the Sustainable Living Fair. Today it’s a gorgeous, sunny day, but just in case it gets cloudy, here is a Slideshare copy of the presentation that I’ll be giving at...
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The Icarus Sundial and Other Sundials
Since humans have roamed the earth, the sun has been used to indicate the passage of time. On a simplistic level, as the seasons changed, people would look up at the sky to gauge how much daylight...
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A Snap Together – Plug and Play Solar House
Ghent University presented an innovative idea to create a home that could be easily transported and assembled by a homeowner for the 2011 Solar Decathlon. They utilized simple design and called it the E-Cube. The...
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Long Summer Days, Passive Solar Cooling…
… and general updates. There’s been a delay in posting, more so than usual, and there are a few reasons why. I recently moved to New Mexico for a new job. Originally, I didn’t think that moving...
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Solar Decathlon Competition Homes
See the "Best of" the 2011 Solar Decathlon competition homes.
Arranged by final overall standing.
- University of Maryland
- Purdue University, Indiana
- Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Middlebury College, Vermont
- Ohio State
- So Cal Institute of Architecture and CalTech
- University of Illinois
- University of Tennessee
- Massachusetts College of Art & Design / University of Mass
- University of Calgary, Canada
- Florida International University
- Appalachian State University, North Carolina
- Parsons NS Stevens, NYC & NJ
- Old Dominion / Hampton University, Virginia
- Tongji University, China
- Ghent University, Belgium
- City College of New York
- Rutgers / New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Univ. of S. Florida / Florida State U / U of Central Florida / U of Florida