Solar panels will increase your home’s value in several ways. These lend confidence in your solar investment and may motivate prospective buyers and lenders.
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From renewable energy to energy-efficient lighting, net zero energy and water, eco-friendly materials and more, we’re sharing the latest green building trends.
7 Simple Steps to Decarbonize Your Home
With the climate crisis accelerating, we must minimize the carbon load of our buildings. This means reducing the embodied carbon that is used to create the materials that go into our buildings as well as the emissions of the buildings in operation.
Abandoning Gas for All-Electric Homes: The Future is Now
By eliminating natural gas appliances from our homes, and replacing them with efficient electric options, we contribute to better health for us all.
7 Green Building Trends Home Buyers Are Helping To Set
“Eco-friendly” is getting a chic makeover. From innovation in materials to major curb appeal to biophilia and bringing the outdoors in, these sustainable trends are leading the charge when home buyers are hunting for their next home.
5 Reasons You Need Solar Battery Storage with Your PV Panels
New technologies that integrate solar battery storage into home solar installations have finally made the leap to completely meeting homeowners’ needs.
Green Building and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
The UN Sustainable Development Goals can help inform your building choices for a more efficient use of resources and a healthier, happier life. Transform your home and support economic growth and a sustainable future.
Eco-Friendly Zzzzzz’s for a Healthy Night’s Sleep
We need to sleep, but we shouldn’t have to sacrifice our health or our planet to do so safely and comfortably.
If you’re reading this, you’re probably aware of the fact that conventional mattresses are made from unsustainable materials, emit toxic VOCs that are bad for your health, and need to be replaced far too often – only increasing their eco-impact by requiring more resources and creating more pollution. (If you didn’t, now you do.)
Yet, thankfully, more and more manufacturers are dreaming up ways to do things better. After much research, here’s a list of 19 of the sustainable industry leaders.
We need to sleep, but we shouldn’t have to sacrifice our health or our planet to do so comfortably. If you’re reading this, you’re probably aware of the fact that conventional mattresses are made from unsustainable materials, emit toxic VOCs that are bad for your health, and need to be replaced far too often – only increasing their eco-impact by requiring more resources and creating more pollution. (If you didn’t, now you do.) Yet, thankfully, more and more manufacturers are dreaming up ways to do things better. After much research, here’s a list of some of the industry leaders.
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Meet the brands that are making a difference through materials, manufacturing processes, corporate responsibility, and social impact.
Resilience Product Showcase: Make Your Home Safe & Sustainable
Catastrophic destruction due to weather and climate change are expected to increase in intensity and frequency. Find products to improve your home’s resilience.
Produce And Manage Your Own Clean Energy With Sunpower Solar
With grid outages an ever common occurrence, you deserve the peace of mind that comes with knowing that you have access to safe, renewable energy.
SunPower leads the way in sustainability, having garnered more than 1,000 patents for solar innovation and bringing long-lasting clean energy to the masses. With over 35 years experience, their Maxeon solar cell and SunVault battery team up to create an efficient and resilient energy solution.
Sonnen ecoLinx – Smart Home Solar Battery Storage
The Sonnen ecoLinx solar battery storage system is so customizable that it adapts to your lifestyle and fully manages energy usage in your home.
6 Critical Questions to Ask About a Solar Battery System
This new generation of solar battery systems is a game-changer! Arm yourself with the tough questions to ask to make sure the system works best for you.
9 Must-Read Net Zero Energy Home Books
Interested in making your home a net zero energy home? In never paying an energy bill again? It may sound too good to be true, but it’s not. And while you can find tons of great information online, sometimes it’s nice to use a good book (or two) as your guide. Then you have all the details you need in one place that you can bookmark, add notes to, and simply use however it makes the most sense to you.
5 reasons why your next kitchen appliance should be an induction cooktop
By Lauren Feldis Induction technology makes cooking faster, easier, and safer than ever before! Consumers have been continuously impressed by induction ranges since they were first introduced in North America by Frigidaire. At a 1950s “World Fair” in Chicago, a...
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