From the monthly archives:

October 2010

Energy Consumption: Home vs. Transportation

October 29, 2010

There are many appeals to living in a Postgreen home. Some like them for the modern look, some for the increased comfort of a home that has no drafts or spots of significantly varying temperatures, some for the extremely clean air, and many for the very low utility and water bills. It is that last [...]

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It’s Not Easy Being Small: Marketing Fewer Square Feet in the Land of More

October 22, 2010

We have talked before about the unreasonable growth in American home sizes even as the average household size continues to decrease. We have also spoken about the need to understand houses based on performance rather than square footage. Often these conversations turn toward educating potential home buyers. Ideas like understandable metrics and car-style performance labeling [...]

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Wireless Light Switches + Floor Outlets = Tighter & More Insulated Home

October 15, 2010

Earlier this week we posted on cutting labor costs associated with Cellulose insulation installs. It occured to me in some of the comments that we have never posted on our “magical” electrical strategy to help improve the insulation and air tightness of our homes. The truth of the matter is that we actually don’t use [...]

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The View from the Future Avant Garage Roof Decks

October 14, 2010

The whole post and all the related information is up on the Postgreen Homes blog, but I thought the video also deserved a showing here. Take a look as we jack my poor self up 35 feet in a tiny bucket to get shots of the view from the future roof deck and green roof [...]

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Innovation Center at Navy Yard

October 13, 2010

Alex, our newest intern team member, will be taking over the lead on reporting on other projects we enjoy. This post is her first foray, but expect many more as we move forward. There’s been a lot of talk about the sustainability developments happening at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. We like sustainability and we  really [...]

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Cutting Cellulose Insulation Install Costs?

October 12, 2010

As you may well know, we are big fans of cellulose insulation. The Skinny project was the first time we used cellulose and we learned some valuable lessons that we plan to apply to future projects like Avant Garage that Nic has been telling you about lately. As always, we are attempting to continually improve [...]

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Avant Garage Updates Over at Postgreen Homes

October 11, 2010

As most of you know by now, we have moved our project specific coverage over to the Postgreen Homes Blog, but since change is a difficult thing, I will occasionally post some small updates with similar info here. Hopefully, everyone will soon subscribe to the PGH Blog for this kind of news, but until then [...]

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Urban Garages: Car Closets in the City

October 7, 2010

Everyone who has read this blog knows I have a certain anti-car bent. It’s not that I am adamantly against the automobile itself. In fact, I actually enjoy driving. One of my favorite jobs I ever had was delivering pizzas. However, I do believe that far too much of our infrastructure is designed for and [...]

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