Category: net zero home inspiration
Shopping Vintage Home Decor: Green on a Budget
Vintage home decor offers a sustainable, creative, and affordable way to furnish. Nonprofits, flea markets, and auctions houses draw crowds. Or shop online.
Read MoreThe Best Sustainable Home Design Podcasts On Now
Deep dive into sustainable home design with our top-rated podcasts—green tech, consultants, real estate, resilience, and more. Your eco-inspiration starts here!
Read MoreCasa Zero: A Home Where (Microscopic) Life Flourishes
Focusing on craftsmanship, salvaged materials, and biophilia, CarbonShack’s first branded home achieved LEED Platinum with a West Coast–shingle mashup style.
Read MoreFernwood Demonstrates Affordable Net-Positive Eco-Renovation
A modest, Arts and Crafts–style home was lovingly renovated to the highest green standards. Today it’s healthy, beautiful, and budget-friendly.
Read MorePalo Alto Net Zero Energy House Shows You Can Have It All
Building a Beacon Stuart is a man on a mission and his home is just one testament to his drive. I...
Read MoreMeritage Net Zero Energy reNEWable Home
Residential homebuilders Meritage and Hanley Wood set out to rethink the way homes are built. The result is a safer, more comfortable, healthier home that promotes family connectivity, integrates technology seamlessly and challenges the very materials and processes used in conventional construction.
Read MoreInnovations in a 107-Year-Old Net Positive Victorian Retrofit
This “Net Zero Victorian” shows that a standard city house on a standard city lot in chilly Minneapolis can be renovated to be net zero in energy with no sacrifice in attractiveness, space, or comfort.
Read MoreInterested in Zero Net Energy Homes? We Want You to Have One
What if your home was so efficient that it produced as much energy as it used? What if you never had to pay another electricity bill? Green dreams like this are coming true all over the world. Whether you’re building or remodeling, a net zero energy home is well within your grasp.
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