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Learn how to reduce your carbon footprint and saving energy through the built environment. Learn what embodied carbon is, why you need to care about your carbon footprint, how to track and measure your energy use, and how to calculate the footprint of your next project.

Podcast 562: PRO TALK With Builder and Author Dan Kolbert
In this Pro-Talk podcast, Ian talks to builder Dan Kolbert, one of the authors of the Pretty Good House book.
Electric House Made With Cross-Laminated Timber
Integrating cross-laminated timber, wood-fiber insulation, panelized construction, and a solar-tile roof for Passive-House performance.
The End of Deep Energy Retrofits?
Learn why one design-build remodeling firm stopped doing these types of renovations in favor of other efficiency improvements and upgrades.
Improve Home Efficiency with Inflation Reduction Act Rebates
The new legislation would provide $9 billion for efficiency upgrades, including heating, cooling and cooking appliances, photovoltaics, and electric vehicles.
Is Adding Exterior Insulation When Re-siding Your Home Worth the Cost?
Re-cladding a house is typically a once-in-multiple-generations upgrade, and can be an economical opportunity to make walls more energy efficient.
Webinar: Getting to Net-Zero Energy
Five building pros from across the country discuss the need for on-site renewable energy and how to get there.
Recirculating Hoods and Indoor-Air Quality
Recirculating hoods work as part of a system to move pollutants in the air further away from the breathing zone.
What Is a Home Energy Audit?
This thorough evaluation of your house's energy health will help you choose the right upgrades to make it more comfortable, healthy, and affordable to live in.
5 Reasons to Own a Blower Door
As a contractor, investing in blower-door equipment is a means to diversify your skill set, toolbox, and income stream.
Building for a Benchmark
Turning challenges into opportunities, TC Legend Homes secures Built Green certification for this new build in Seattle.

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