Bleu Nest

06/05/2020

Excited to do this webinar! 👏🏻

12/01/2019

Addie with her winning painting that’s hanging in the Abercrombie & Fitch store at Garden State Plaza. She purchased the coat with the gift card she won! 👏🏻🎨🖼🛍 Thank you

01/14/2019

01/02/2019

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Net-zero or zero-ready homes produce more than enough energy from solar or wind power so they can feed extra power back into the local energy grid to compensate for night use. But the number of such homes is tiny, less than 0.1 percent nationwide.

01/01/2019

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As we celebrate the two-year anniversary of the historic Kigali Amendment of the Montreal Protocol today, it is promising to see the growing discussion around the environmental impacts of current air-conditioning units and the need to replace harmful hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) with more climate-frien...

12/31/2018

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An athlete and architect is taking on his next challenge, and it’s his smallest yet. Ben Hayward divides his time between Olympic-level kayaking and architecture. It was his nomadic training regimen and high hotel and travel bills while in Europe that made him build his first tiny home, a camper h...

12/28/2018

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Under the new code, buildings must be efficient enough for their electricity use to be offset by a few solar panels. (Courtesty of NRDC) California is seeking input on a plan to update its building energy standards to increase energy efficiency, clear the way for clean energy heating and hot water.....

12/28/2018

Wishing all of you a happy Holiday Season and a New Year filled with peace and prosperity!

12/27/2018

"Homes and commercial buildings consume 40% of all energy used in the U.S., according to the Department of Energy. What if we could build structures that don’t draw any power from the grid, or use any natural gas, at all? And what if the materials and techniques required were no more expensive than conventional construction, or added at most a 10% premium to building costs?

This is becoming a reality thanks to a nearly decade-old DOE standard: the Zero Energy Ready Home. These homes use so little energy that they’re “ready” to go net-zero—that is, what electricity they do need could theoretically be delivered with a roof full of solar panels, even if they’re connected to the grid. A related standard from Germany, called Passive House, leads to buildings so well insulated they demand very little outside energy for heating or cooling."

A bevy of new technologies, construction techniques and a movement to make buildings more livable and efficient have led to a tipping point in how new buildings use energy—or don’t. Columnist Christopher Mims explores.

12/05/2018

"The idea behind permaculture gardening is to use nature's own design tricks to create productive landscapes that do much of the work for you."

That is pretty much what Passive House designers try to do- let the fabric of the building do the work of keeping you warm or cool instead of a lot of mechanical equipment and fossil fuels."

A lot of the permaculture design principles make just as much sense for buildings.

12/05/2018

12/03/2018

Passive Pays off.

Calgary developer is inviting people to visit energy efficient "Passive House," promising big savings on heating costs.