Archive for September 12th, 2011

Last week, I wrote about the home design movement that is making a virtue out of living in small dwellings. (See “Living in Small and Tiny Houses — Thoreau Would Be Proud.”) Let’s consider now some of the environmental implications of living in smaller spaces. (Photo: Tiny cottage. Credit: RowdyKittens, CC BY 2.0.) Read the rest of this entry »

The Climate Policy Initiative San Francisco has published Codes to Cleaner Buildings: Effectiveness of U.S. Building Energy Code, which reports on the results of the first U.S. study to measure impact of state energy codes using residential energy use data at the state level. The authors conducted regression analysis that compared states with building energy codes to those without and measured the realized energy savings of energy codes and compared them to the modeled estimates. Read the rest of this entry »