Building a Low Impact Home

Pictures

• The showcase picture set -- it's finally finished!!
• The Google Earth placemark
• Building site

Design Inspirations

• Island cabin
• Japanese style deck
• Use of wood, built-ins

Materials & product choices

• Granite
  - for foundations, curbing, stove enclosure
  - after all, New Hampshire is the granite state
  
  
• Slate floors on cement
  - passive solar heat absortion during the day that gets radiated back into the room at night
  
  
• Rais: the only attractive wood stoves in the world

General Resources

• Real Goods: learn everything about renewable energy
• Solar Works
• Wind Energy Small Wind Generator


• BuildingGreen - Publishers of Environmental Building News
• Renewable Energy Policy Project
  
• NH Governor's Office of Energy & Community Services
• Boston regional office of US DOE EREN (Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network)
• Database of state incentives for renewable energy, NH page

• Choosing Efficient Windows
• Solar Works
• Homestead Enterprises (California)
• Wood Stoves
• RAIS
• Lennox Earth Stoves: here and here.
• Austroflamm Arte
• Energy Unlimited sells Lennox, Austroflamm
• Stoves Unlimited

• General information from Million Solar Roofs
• NH Law (off-site) (cached)
• Critique of NH law
• Dept. of Energy summary table of state programs

Nature and the Built Environment

• New England stone walls