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Net-Zero Energy Buildings: Semantic Antics

Posted onOctober 26, 2010June 30, 2014AuthorPat Heffernan1 Comment

Is obfuscation one of your goals? I didn’t think so. It does seem to be a goal in many architectural, energy efficiency and sustainability circles though. The terms zero energy building, net-zero carbon, net-zero energy cost, zero net energy, net-zero energy site, net-zero electricity, near net-zero, and net-zero ready…are all tossed about to describe a Read More …

A Must-Read: Krugman’s Building a Green Economy

Posted onApril 30, 2010June 30, 2014AuthorPat Heffernan

Sometimes I agree with him. Sometimes, passionately, I don’t. But after reading Paul Krugman’s “Building a Green Economy” in the Sunday New York Times magazine, mostly I just wanted to hug him. Klugman begins in a matter of fact way by observing that in the debate over climate economics, the “casual reader might have the Read More …