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by gmoke Wed Mar 6th, 2024 at 01:21:22 AM EST
World's biggest "passive house" office building http://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/boston-skyscraper-named-worlds-biggest-pas sive-house-office http://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/12/winthrop-center-named-worlds-largest-passive-house-office-buildi ng/
DOE's "Affordable Home Energy Shot" and other housing emissions reductions initiatives of the Biden administration http://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/21/fossil-free-100-affordable-housing-can-mean-residents-have-no-ut ility-bills/
Cement and carbon black as a supercapacitor and a building material http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a44716956/scientists-make-supercapacitor-out-of-c ement/ hat tip Andrew Tobias
"Just over half of Europe's single family homes could technically be fully energy self-sufficient with a combination of solar energy and storage systems, according to a report by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology" http://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/half-europes-family-homes-could-be-energy-self-sufficient-solar- and-storage-report Report (in German): http://www.kit.edu/kit/pi_2023_088_energiewende-energieautark-im-einfamilienhaus.php
Flood resistant homes from bamboo http://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2023/flood-resistant-home-bamboo/ Use http://archive.ph/14gDa to get past the paywall Editorial Comment: this is not necessarily net zero energy building but could be and could also be adapted to the rest of the world, urban and rural
All electric sustainable skyscraper in Brooklyn http://cleantechnica.com/2024/01/24/a-sustainable-skyscraper-grows-in-brooklyn-thanks-to-alloy/
Geos net zero energy community in Colorado http://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/this-colorado-community-is-already-living- in-the-all-electric-future hat tip to Jennifer Hill Jennifer Hill also pointed me to Kaupuni Village in Hawaii http://g70.design/project/kaupuni-village/ http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/53401.pdf Living Zenith in Utah http://livingzenith.com/ Red Fox Crossing in Wisconsin http://www.probuilder.com/wisconsins-first-net-zero-community Hillside East in Vermont http://hillsidevt.com/energy-resiliency/
Building passively cooled schools in Burkina Faso http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/we-dont-need-air-con-how-burkina-faso-builds-scho ols-that-stay-cool-in-40c-heat
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