Roxul ComfortBoard IS has some important environmental and performance advantages over XPS and polyisocyanurate insulation

Readers of this Energy Solutions blog may be aware that I’ve been critical of some of our foam-plastic insulation materials.

Turning waste into a unique architectural product, Coldspring and Jason F. McLennan have teamed up on a new dimensional stone product.

Few others are thinking about energy audits and weatherization, but now’s a good time.

Wait a second. Spring has barely sprung, and you’re saying we need to start thinking about energy audits already? What’s up with that?

Cool your super-efficient jets, green building world. We still have no idea what GSA is going to do about LEED.

This is part of an ongoing series. Read all the Sticky Business posts here.

My last post in this series on adhesives, sealants, and tapes ended with this line:

Panelized construction, meticulous attention to energy detailing, and a sophisticated computer design system put Unity Homes at the cutting edge of home buiding.

Whole-building LCA is about to get really big in LEED and elsewhere. It's a great tool, as long as you understand its limitations.

Tedd Benson's latest initiative to reinvent home building—with lower-cost panelized construction

Knauf Insulation's EcoSeal can provide significant air-sealing prior to installing cavity-fill insulation

Getting back to our Dummerston, Vermont farmhouse this week, I’m reporting on our use of a relatively new product for air-sealing homes: EcoSeal from Knauf Insulation.

Växjö, Sweden embraced the U.N's Agenda 21 and is now a model of sustainability

The IEQ Space Matrix, currently in its third edition as of April 1, 2015, contains lists that categorize spaces for applicability to LEED Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) credits. The lists are modified from the spaces in IES Lighting Handbook, 10th Edition. These lists should be used along with the general credit guidance, notes, and definitions provided in the General Credit Guidance and Notes and Definitions tabs.

[Editor's Note: This guest post comes to us courtesy of Peter Talmage, P.E., an energy and design consultant and an instructor in the Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency program at Greenfield Community College. Originally published April 4, 2013.]

I have heated my various homes with wood since 1975. It was always a love/hate relationship. The wood fuel was “free” off my land, but burning it was a very dirty business in many ways.

Fear of Agenda 21 fuels a bill to ban sustainability planning in the state of Kansas

Climbing the learning curve in working with a new insulation material

In recent months, GBCI (the Green Building Certification Institute, which works closely with the U.S. Green Building Council to certify LEED buildings) has quietly updated its approach to communicating technical advice to LEED project teams. Teams that have tried the process report being very satisfied with the results, but the new policy is still not well known.

The new policy could be summed up in two quick points: