So, your home is insulated
but is still cold in winter and hot in summer, especially when it’s windy?
It could be that your home is leaky.
A home that leaks like a sieve can be fine – in the right place (like the tropics, where air movement is welcome).
But if you live where winters are cold Continue reading
Recently completed residential units in Kingston, ACT, Australia. (I could have chosen some even newer and more boring ones in the same suburb, but these were handy.)
Image by Gillian King, CC BY-NC-SA
In my last post I wrote about the current and emerging complicated and complex challenges for urban planning and development and how collaboration can address these challenges – and get good outcomes.
If you were planning a new urban development – or a new home – what would be your goals for addressing these challenges?
Think about it for a moment.
If you were living or working in – or Continue reading
Your energy bills are pretty much
the same throughout the year, aren’t they? Your bills never go up when it’s winter (or summer) because you live in a super energy-efficient home.
What?
You don’t live in a home that requires virtually no added heating or cooling to keep you comfortable? Continue reading
Next weekend is the equinox.
In the northern hemisphere, days will become shorter than nights. And that means that there is less sunlight to heat our homes and atmosphere…and more time to lose that heat.
In the southern hemisphere, it means that days will become Continue reading
It’s the middle of winter where I live in the southern 
hemisphere.
We’ve just past the winter solstice and today I’ve been to a funeral.
Appropriately, the weather has been cold, gloomy and raining. Continue reading