This grand announcement is long overdue: Home Performance NC has an insulation rig! Woo hoo! Big excitement! Cellulose or fiberglass – take your pick! And housing the insulation rig is a box truck…and housing the extra insulation is a shop space in beautiful downtown Pittsboro – grand opening announcement for that will be coming soon! [...]
Here is the link to the fact sheet presented by the White House on Cash for Caulkers. Finally! We’ve been waiting for this for a while. We are still interested to find out exactly how this will all go down, but the basics of the program (cut and pasted directly from the fact sheet) seem [...]
Recently we’ve gotten a number of calls and e-mails from folks who want to know how to become a home energy auditor. We’re not at all surprised – with the excitement generated by the possibility of HomeSTAR/Cash for Caulkers and the possibility of jobs creation through that bill combined with many out-of-work folks it’s only [...]
I just ran across this great little podcast on The Brian Lehrer Show, which features David Leonhardt, New York Times economics columnist and staff writer for the magazine. The podcast covers the idea of “Cash for Caulkers” – which is an economic stimulus idea for people to weatherize their homes. The first 10 minutes or so (minus a [...]
This is hilarious. A Green Buildings music video from Stanford. Although, as my partner, Mark, the RESNET® HERS rater, energy auditor, and BPI analyst says, there’s too much focus on windows and not enough on ductwork. True, but really funny just the same!