Passive Survivability
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Resilience as a Driver of Change
Whether or not you believe that climate change is happening, implementing resilient design strategies will make you and your family safer — and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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It Takes a Village to Be Resilient
Surveying residents of Dummerston, Vermont, about emergency generators, wood stoves, and access to water
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Gas Lines Point to a Need for Resilience
Hurricane Sandy demonstrated the vulnerability of our dependence on gasoline for transportation and emergency generators
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Designing Homes and Communities That Can Survive a Disaster
The Resilient Design Institute highlights an important element of sustainability
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Designing Houses and Communities To Be Smarter and More Resilient
Resilient design is about making smart choices, such as where we build and how we protect against damage from flooding
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Resilience: Designing Homes for More Intense Storms
A big part of resilient design is creating homes that will survive intense storms unscathed
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Building Resilience for a ‘Close Encounter’ with Disaster
Can you make your life more resilient in case of disaster? Yes, and it may be greener, too.
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Green Building Priority #9 – Create Resilient Houses
Number 9 in my list of the top-10 green building priorities is to create resilient houses that will protect occupants in a changing climate or during extended power outages, loss of heating fuel, or water shortages.
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Passive Hot Air from Everyday Materials
Wall-mounted solar collector provides fast payback -
Making Houses Resilient to Power Outages
The ice storm a week-and-a-half ago illustrated, all too clearly, the vulnerability of our homes. Hundreds of thousands of homes in New England lost power in the storm, which deposited…
