by Alison Moore Smith | May 12, 2010 | for Home
The rebate system for energy-efficient improvements is a baffling array of governmental nonsense. No surprise there. If you do exactly what the EPA tells you to do, when they tell you to do it, while living where they want you to live — and presumably with the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 23, 2009 | Design Your Own House, for Home
The city of Lindon requires—among a billion other things—a model energy code compliance report to prove, I suppose, that your model energy code is complaint with whatever Lindon officials have deemed necessary to comply with in regards to the energy code. So,...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 15, 2008 | Design Your Own House, for Home, for Money
We've long been wanting to build an eco-friendly home. It's all the rage. It's cool. It's hip. But that has nothing to do with it. If I really wanted to be hip, I'd get rid of the peg-legged acid-washed high-waisted jeans in my closet. And stop using the word...