A double-plate wall with offset studs allows plenty of room for blown-in insulation, and it also helps prevent thermal bridging. Green homes built with double walls are also more durable than standard homes, making for a more sustainable home.

We’ll adventure into the past, present and future of lighting, heating, cooling, cooking, food gathering, food storage, entertaining, laundering clothes, bathing, and of course . . . pooping.

A Zero Energy Home, or ZEH, is a truly sustainable home because it produces as much energy as it consumes.

If you can afford a new home, you can afford a zero energy home.

Global climate change is today’s most pressing issue and most Americans favor taking meaningful action.