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A House For Slow Living
Is it possible to marry the romantic associations of an old-fashioned farmhouse with a high-performance building envelope?
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An Energy-Self-Sufficient Community
Using wind, sunlight, wood chips, and biogas, the village of Feldheim, Germany, makes all of its own electricity and heat
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The ‘Lock-In’ Concept and Passivhaus Construction
It’s better to save up your money for a deep-energy retrofit in a few years than it is to implement less comprehensive measures now
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Tracking Our Company’s Carbon Footprint
About 60% of South Mountain Company’s CO2 emissions stem from our employees’ use of transportation fuel
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Solving Our Design Problems
Our new house needed an addition, but we didn’t want the addition to be too big
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Stop Using Propane and Oil and Go Electric
With heat pumps, going electric is a much better alternative than it used to be
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German Building Codes Keep Ratcheting Up
By 2021, new buildings in Germany will need to comply with Europe’s ‘nearly net zero’ goal
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Another Report on the Great Ventilation Rate Debate
A clear winner emerged at the ventilation debate held at the recent Affordable Comfort conference in Detroit
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New Passive Building Standards for North America
Why the European Passivhaus standard isn’t appropriate for North American climates
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A Passivhaus Conference in Germany
Wolfgang Feist announces the launch of two new energy efficiency standards: ‘Passive House Plus’ and ‘Passive House Premium’