Green Homes News

Location: Harvard Allston Campus

This short in-person professional education course provides a comprehensive introduction to AI and machine learning tailored for power engineering applications, with an emphasis on sustainable computing practices. As the electricity industry transforms into a flat, active, and cyber-physical system, this course bridges domains to address challenges and opportunities, advancing smarter grids and sustainable AI systems.
Participants will gain hands-on experience with tools for statistical time series analysis, dimensionality reduction, and energy-efficient AI solutions. We will explore...

Read more about Power Systems and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction

Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic, by the art collective TRES, is an art-research project that investigates plastic’s enduring presence in global ecosystems. Since 2016, TRES has searched for and photographed marine debris and plastic that has washed up on the Australian shores of Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania. Using photography, maps, and collected artifacts, the collective documents how plastic castaways of contemporary culture become embedded in landscapes—often unnoticed...

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Location: HUCE Seminar Room 440, MCZ 4th Floor, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Join us for a book talk with former Harvard Environmental Fellow Matthew P. Johnson and discussants Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico; Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences; and Dustin Tingley, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy.

During the later twentieth century, Brazil's right-wing military dictatorship built a vast network of hydropower dams that became one of the world's biggest low-carbon electricity grids. Weighed against these carbon savings, what were the...

Read more about Book Talk: Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil: An Environmental History of Low-Carbon Energy, 1960s-1990s

We are doing a deep energy retrofit in Northern New Jersey. This includes air sealing as well as exterior insulation (3” on walls/4” on roof). Is an Air to Water…

I am building a home in North Dakota with footings just poured.  My footings are generally very deep, but along the walkout side of the house they are at the…

Our sill plate is taped on the exterior to the foundation with Siga Fentrim. We want to have a belt and suspenders approach with it, so we also caulked on…

Hello,I have a house in Zone 5 with a poured concrete foundation, at least 10 inches above ground, with slope towards back.The basement walls have 5” Type 2 EPS (unfaced)…

Our window/door crew finished up today just as storm rolled in, which was fortuitous because it acted as a good stress test. The house is framed with Zip-R and the…

For insulating basement walls in climate zone 5a, I am considering using polyiso foam board. I was thinking about going with R15 polyiso foam board. Anyone have any example product…

Wasn't sure exactly where this fit sorry if I categorized it incorrectly. I am in the planning stages of a small well insulated home build. The house will basically be…

An architect and a handy homeowner team up for an exterior makeover with energy efficiency, comfort, and durability as part of the plan

Thanks to an international effort to preserve traditional Japanese homes called kominka, an old timber frame is rebuilt in Oregon.

Looking to provide plans for low-energy, healthy homes that the average builder could tackle at reasonable prices, the Just Housing design team share their proof of concept, the Evergreen House in Duluth.

The project goals for this house in coastal Maine included minimizing carbon and site impact and maximizing comfort and efficiency.

Hello there. I am a builder of high-performance homes in Minneapolis area. I have developed 5 Passive homes in the last 3 years and used Access Windows out of Canada.…

Learn about the advantages, disadvantages, and ideal applications for ducted vs. ductless heat pumps.

There's a lot of great info on proper detailing for insulation, but I'm trying to dial into my specific situation. I'll try to be brief, and greatly appreciate your thoughts…

We built an apartment on the rear of our garage.  There is a carport in front of the garage.  We tore off the roof and built a higher pitch roof…

Location: Virtual

On May 8, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m., the Harvard Law School Project on Disability (HPOD), together with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, and the GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard Initiative, will host an online, interdisciplinary panel of experts who will explore the...

Read more about Mental Health and Climate Change: When a Global Crisis and Planetary Emergency Collide

Anyone have experience with recently applied UFFI foam??  I found an old article here about the re-emergence of UFFIs.  To find it search here for UFFI to find a 2013…