Clean Energy Works: Portland

Clean Energy Works Portland is a pilot program that will help up to 500 qualified Portland homes finance and install energy efficiency upgrades.

The pilot offers homeowners access to low-cost financing for energy efficiency home improvements, like new insulation or the installation of a high efficiency furnace or water heater. To help decide which upgrades and [...]

Build It Green Home Tour 2009

Please join us for the eighth annual BIG! Home Tour and Info Fair on Saturday, September 19th, 2009

Eighteen green remodels and new homes will be open 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. in the Portland metro area. You’ll be able to chat with homeowners and contractors about solar panels, rain water harvesting, ecoroofs, affordable housing, [...]

Futurehaus – a house you can heat with a blow-dryer.

“These aren’t your gramma’s storm windows.”

Bjorn Nelson holds up a wicked-looking window casing. Sourced from Germany, it features triple thermal glass panes, three rubber gaskets, six insulating air chambers and a protective Plexiglas laminate. It looks like it came off a space shuttle, but it’s headed for a single-family home in Hood River.

“Problem is,” says [...]

The plan…

Summary
To implement an eco-conscious renovation on a 1961 Warren Weber designed Mid-Century home. Our plan is to remodel the home in such a way as to remove it for the grid and make it viable for the next 50 years. Working with designers, architects, sustainability professionals, landscape architects, and professional installers, the goal of the [...]