Green Homes News

Location: Room 414AB, David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Rubenstein Building, HKS, 79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

"Addressing the Carbon Loophole" with Catrina Rorke, Vice President, Climate Leadership Council.

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I put in a solar system 7 years ago. It is a 20 year lease and the payments are  reasonable, working out to about $60/month for 20 years.  60 *…

How Architecture 2030’s new software enables builders to reduce embodied carbon and find reuse solutions

Hello, I started working out my window details. I’ve got 1/2” zip taped sheathing with an outie window buck. Paper backed polyiso with 3/4” rainscreen furring strips. My question is do…

Hi all,I’ll be installing flange-less triple pane windows in a 2x6 wall with plywood sheathing, continuous wood-fiber exterior insulation, rain-screen, and cedar board/batten.  I’m presuming most builders are still opting…

Hi All,I’m building a new house in CZ 6a. Using 2x6 walls with dense packed cellulose and 3” foil face Polyiso on the exterior, I’m trying to balance performance with…

I am re-building the exterior of my house, insulation, sheathing, CI, siding; and during the demolition phase (taking the existing masonite siding off and the deteriorating spray foam out), I…

Hello,I'm using Zip roof decking. My contractor put the panels on from the bottom up to the ridge. There is about a 6 inch gap at the ridge, which he…

Good afternoon, we put in two Samsung cold weather heat pumps that now solely heat our 2600 sq ft home in southern NH. These pumps are under our second floor…

Like many people on here, I’m trying tofind an alternative to a vented range hood. There is an attractive option out of Vancouver (I forget the name), but it doesn’t…

I have been trying without success to find a builder in the Washington DC area that is familiar with SIPs. Maybe someone here can give me some good hint on…

I have a mid-1990's manufactured home in zone 4 that I'm renovating.It is built on a steel chassis/frame which sits on a concrete slab.The crawlspace under the  house (between the…

Hi folks,I'm hoping someone might be able to offer some advice on a weird dilemma. When we replace our siding, we're installing 2" of foil-faced polyiso on most of our…

Hello everyone,I've been doing lots of reading on this site and others. I have read a few articles on having a highly insulated house with radiant in-floor heat. I am…

Location: Mather House, 10 Cowperthwaite St., Cambridge

The famous collaborative experiential FUN game-workshop "Climate Fresk" is happening for the first time in a Harvard House! Climate Fresk is based on the science of the IPCC reports and has been played by more than 1 million people in industry, academia, government, and the general public, at all levels of responsibilities and climate knowledge, and by 400 Harvard grad students.... Read more about Climate Fresk

Location: Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health, Kresge Building Room 202

"Climate Hacks: Survival Lessons from the World’s Poor" with Somini Sengupta, International Climate Reporter, The New York Times.

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Location: Kresge G1, HSPH, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston

"Steps and Scales: Transforming the US Health Sector for Climate Change and Health Equity" featuring John Balbus, Acting Director of the HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity. A Whittenberger Lecture.

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Location: 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge

"Emissions and Chemistry of Air Pollutants in Urban Areas and from Wildfires and Oil and Gas Production with Joost de Gouw, Professor of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder."

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Hi, during my cement block home build my contractor (long gone) installed these boxes Now after finish work and wiring was done, (by third world nice but inept workers),  most need…

Detailing a triple-glazed window in an extra-thick wall