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The Journey Begins
The main reason for starting this blog is to track our progress as we convert our newly-owned house into a green and sustainable home. The house is beautiful, but in my opinion not connected to the...
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R50, Local, Sustainable and No Itching
One of the things that came from our energy audit done by Southern Energy Management (SEM) was to increase the insulation in our attic. I will talk more about the SEM report in a later blog. Nineteen...
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Switching to LED lighting
LED vs Incandescent As Lisa and I started to acclimate ourselves to our new house, we quickly noted in the kitchen the heat coming off the ceiling from the 150 watt incandescent floodlights. We later...
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Why Care?
When I started making biodiesel about nine years ago people would ask me why? At the time, I could buy diesel fuel at the pump for about $1, and it was going to cost me about $1 to make the biodiesel....
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About seven years ago, Lisa and I remodeled the kitchen at our home on Parkview Drive. The one big thing that I got to add to the project was a Bosch Aquastar natural gas tankless hot water heater....
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Bringing it together to manage our electricity
Last week, a Smart Meter from Randolph Electrical Membership Cooperative was installed at our home. Smart meter, but not the model that was installed at our house This was the final piece for managing...
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The Permaculture Piece
It has been a few years since Bonnie Hutchinson introduced the Permaculture principles to me. We had hired Bonnie to paint a vision for the four acres at TS Designs. When we started construction on our...
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Ground Source Heat Pump
Last week, we threw the switch to our geothermal HVAC system that is correctly called a ground source heat pump. When we bought this house, we knew the almost 20 year old, inefficient HVAC propane...
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The Apple Treed Guild
I want a part of my blog to make the connection between energy savings and utilizing the Permaculture principles. To me, it does not make sense to establish a net zero home that is not connected with...
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