Performing a home energy audit is a quick, simple, effective way to reduce your carbon footprint, maintain your home, and save money on your energy bills. This 7-step guide will help you to determine which areas of your house have room for improvement, as well as provide recommendations that you can implement for a more energy-efficient home.
Here are five of the best smart home upgrades you can do in your own home that will both save you money and make your home much more eco-friendly.
By Lloyd Kahn, Shelter Publications
The structure of the treehouse is a two-story wooden yurt with the roof supported by a web of small branches and spiraling cedar boards. Like most of what SunRay does, his formula for natural building flies in the face of any mechanical, technical approach. He prefers his buildings to feel as if they grew there.
Implementing a “Green Policy” is just as important for a home-based business as a company and there are simple and easy ways to do it. Here are some steps you can take and policies you can implement to make your home-based business a green one.
Our neighborhood has an unprecedented opportunity to work with the city for creating a new neighborhood plan that can put permaculture type green and resilient ideas and actions out to a far wider audience. This neighborhood plan can guide how the neighborhood evolves over the next 20 years in terms of transportation, land use, economic development, open space, public participation and resilience.
Learn more about rural intentional communities with this guide.
Get the answers to common questions about living in an intentional community.
