Category: Water Efficiency

    • Weatherization Package from SEA.

      A concise Weatherization package should include at a minimum the analysis of the windows and doors, insulating in the walls and especially in the roof and attack. These simple primary starting points can lead to substantial savings in a very short time by controlling your building envelope. Energy savings do not end with the way…

    • How to create a Rain Barrel…

      I noticed a number of workshops for this and have myself 2 preferred sources, one of them in our backyard at the University of Florida. They have teamed up with Miami Dade County Consumer and Water Department and are going around town to show and tell how it is done.

    • How to green your South Florida home – Part III

      Roof / Shell: you already looked at your windows and doors and have sealed all leakage. The next step is to invest in the buildings shell. The big collector in South Florida is the roof. Over 80% of heat gain to the house will come from above with our year round sunshine.

    • Landscaping 102. Irrigation

      Install gutters to start. This should be a basic feature of each house, but the building code does not require them….so request them from your design professional and builder or retrofit them if applicable.

    • Water savings 101

      There are many ways to save water in the house or business. Most of them have to do with habitual change and simple awareness of what we do.

    • Water issues – Part I

      As the only species that adapts the environment faster than we could adapt to it, the question than becomes; What next?