From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Building Gaskets and Air Sealing Tape

October 30, 2009

Yesterday we looked at some lessons learned from our aggressive air sealing goals on the Passive Project. In doing so we mentioned that we will be utilizing building gaskets and air sealing tape to help obtain the very difficult building air tightness goal of 0.6 ACH @ 50Pa that is required by the Passive House [...]

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Passive House Air Sealing – Lessons Learned

October 28, 2009

It’s been a while since we posted on any technical aspects of the Passive House we are trying to build in the Passive Project. We recently tested our air sealing with a blower door test prior to drywall at the homes and I figured it would be a good time to bring up some thoughts [...]

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Facade Update and Retrospective: The Passive Project

October 27, 2009

After the expected construction delays and difficulties associated with a standard as ambitious as Passive House, the Passive Project is finally getting wrapped up. Drywall is up, finish work is underway, and we are finally getting a look at the backlog of blog posts we owe you on this process. They are coming. The most [...]

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The Persuasive Power of Fun

October 19, 2009

This post is a version of a column I wrote for our local neighborhood paper the Fishtown Star. I thought I would share it with the blog because all you readers out there always seem able to spin my half baked thoughts and ideas into something more interesting and useful. Spin away. The majority of [...]

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Suburban Sprawl to Smart Growth – Shifting the American Dream

October 8, 2009

Yvette is interning with us this fall and will be writing regularly on planning issues. We ask our regular readers to reward her with their expertise and opinions in the comments. A McMansion, three cars, and spacious back yard in the suburbs, is this the American Dream or the American suburban sprawl nightmare? Suburban sprawl [...]

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The Skinny Project – 3 New Postgreen Homes

October 6, 2009

We realized last week that we hadn’t officially announced the sale of our next project – The Skinny Project – on the blog yet. If you attended our web launch party, you heard about it, but we should officially notify everyone who may have missed out here. The third project takes the best lessons learned [...]

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New Video, Speaking Engagements and Other Announcements

October 1, 2009

We have had some busy days here at Postgreen and as a result, we haven’t kept you as up-to-date as we should. So, let’s consider this post a little catch up. For the sake of brevity, we’ll do this in list form . . . There is a great new video of Postgreen up on [...]

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