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Largest Passive House structure in the U.S. to be built in Oregon

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The largest Passive House in the nation will be completed within a year in Hillsboro, Oregon, the Oregonian reports. Whereas the idea has spread quickly in Europe and by 2010 the continent had 25,000 of such structures, the United States has only about 100 Passive House projects.

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Beach House in Oregon has Many Natural Features

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This Cannon Beach house, built in 2005, has a green roof planted in sedum and wild strawberries and is clad with cedar shakes. One door was rescued from a historic Portland house facing demolition. The post Beach House in Oregon has Many Natural Features appeared first on Natural Building Blog.

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Indoor Marijuana Growing Accounts for Over 1% of all Electric Consumption in the U.S.

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A sharp increase in electrical use in a house has been used by police as probable cause to issue a search warrant for illegal marijuana cultivation. ” Indoor Marijuana Growing Kaplow LEED Stuart Kaplow Sustainability green building law growing pot'

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2022 BALA Projects: Kitchens That Cook

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Square footage: 390 sf Builder/Remodeler (entrant): New Urban Home Builders, Grand Rapids Architect + Interior Designer: Deidre Interiors, Grand Rapids Green Verifier: GreenEdge of Michigan , Holland, Mich. Green Verifier/Rater: Moffet Energy Modeling , Tualatin, Ore. Photographer: Geoff Shirley Photography. had a vision. had a vision.

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FEATURE STORY: The Story Of Storage

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Large-scale data centers are known to use the amount of electricity equivalent to small towns and, despite many greening initiatives, some centers release a significant amount of air pollution in the form of diesel exhaust. Greene And The Greening Of Data Centers. Let’s recap a few of his most notable prognostications.

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Michael G. Smith Writes about the Value of Cob

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I attended my first natural building workshop in Oregon in 1993. For example, many builders harvest clay soil from the building site during the leveling and excavation process, then use it to build the house. You can use machinery to mix clay, sand, and straw into cob — or you can use your feet.

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Two Week Natural Building Intensive

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Smith co-founded the Cob Cottage Company, along with Ianto Evans and Linda Smiley, in Oregon in 1993. He wrote “The Cobber’s Companion” in 1996 and co-authored “The Hand-Sculpted House” (published by Chelsea Green, 2002) and “The Art of Natural Building (2nd edition, New Society, 2015).”

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