Colorado Public Radio

Colorado launches new building code designed to encourage efficient, all-electric homes

Colorado has officially adopted a new building code designed to make homes and offices more climate-friendly without further inflating the state's high cost of living. The Colorado Energy Office ...
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Proud homeowner shares inside look at incredibly efficient house that supplies all its own energy: 'A personal triumph'

Certified passive house consultant Steven Rhodes put his money where his mouth is by getting his certification while working on his own passive house in Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Monthly reported. It ...
NPR

5 lessons from a house that generates more energy than it uses

HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. — With utility bills rising faster than inflation, a house that produces more energy than it consumes might sound appealing. Robert Fortunato's "Green Idea House" has been doing ...
E&E

House GOP focuses on reversing energy efficiency rules

An Energy and Commerce panel will discuss bills to roll back appliance and building efficiency standards. House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee will use a legislative hearing this ...
Arkansas Times

Low energy, but in a good way: Fayetteville’s super-efficient ‘passive house’ is the first to be certified in Arkansas

Wild birds chirp inside a dense grove of magnolia trees shading a new home near downtown Fayetteville. The pale gray two-story Prairie-style single-family residence, appropriately named Magnolia House ...