Green Home Info

Smart Homeowner writes about the growing trend of environmentally-conscious luxury homebuilding. Homeowners with money to spend on custom homes with high-end features are adding energy efficiency and sustainable materials to their list of must-haves. Robert Lord, master builder and president of Robert Lord Builders in St. Charles, Illinois, says that it makes sense [...]

Youngsville, NC-based Enertia® Building Systems, Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of Geo-Solar Homes. Their Passive Solar House is designed to be used year-round with no supplemental heating or cooling in mild climates, and minimal supplemental heating and cooling in more extreme climates.
The houses make use of two main passive heating and cooling principles.
First, [...]