I’m on vacation visiting family in Vancouver, British Columbia and had the rare treat to go to the top of a wind turbine on Grouse Mountain. The 1.5 megawatt turbine provides about 25% of the electricity the mountain needs to operate, and it makes a beautiful, powerful statement on the top of this urban ski [...]
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The Eye of the Wind
Also posted in Renewables Tagged Grouse Mountain, Leitwind, Renewable Energy, tourism, Wind Power 1 Comment
Embodied Energy in New Construction
Building green can be complicated. But all the time we’re getting more and better data on how to do it well. The TED talk below from Catherine Mohr does a great job of displaying the data on embodied energy associated with deconstructing an old house and building a new green home – and the ‘payback’ [...]
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Concord Green
by Georges Dyer, Partner, Aedi Group
Our construction team has had the great pleasure over the past few months to work on an exciting project in Concord, MA. The owner has a real passion for healthy, green building without sacrificing classic design. And she has done an unbelievable job documenting the entire process on her blog [...]
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Whole systems and big energy cuts
by Georges Dyer, Partner Aedi Group
Today’s Wall Street Journal had a great quick read on energy efficiency retrofits in large commercial buildings – focused largely on the Empire State Building renovation. It does a good job of showing how taking a whole-system approach makes it possible to achieve much deeper energy efficiency improvements with lower [...]
Waxman-Markey
By Georges Dyer, Partner, Aedi Group
The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454), better known as the Waxman-Markey bill, is moving through Congress, with a vote on the floor expected next week. It is an historic time for our country and the world, and though lost in the noise of the usual, [...]
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