Thriving On Low Carbon

Great video on a Deep Energy Retrofit to Net Positive Energy

My friend John Livermore is multi-talented, and enlisted his 17 year old daughter and his stepson as well to produce a tremendously clever and fun 10 minute video on how they transformed their 70s raised ranch from an energy hog to a net energy producer, shrinking their carbon footprint to a fraction of its initial size. Full disclosure: I was one of the participants.

Check it out here

Deep Energy Retrofits of Historic Buildings

Here is a PDF of my talk today at the RISD Architecture Dept. Tomorrow we look at the retrofit possibilities at their 50,000 ft2, 1848 building, the Bayard Ewing Building. Download Historic Buildings RISD 2016