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Trombe Walls can be used to provide free heating, cooling and ventilation. This article explains how Trombe Walls work.

Read the rest of Melbourne’s St. Alfred’s Church Boasts Highly Sophisticated Passive Heating and Cooling Systems Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: hydronic heat exchanger, hydronic solar...

French student Florent Bouhey Fayolle created the Sun Container: an elegant freestanding radiator that uses sunlight as its power source. Inspired by the Trombe Wall system, this 120w passive solar heater draws sunlight through...

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Read the rest of VIlla 4.0: Hexagonal Dutch Home Gets a Green Facelift Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bamboo floors, Dick van Gameren Architecten, green design, green lighting, Hilversum, LED lighting,...

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Alternative energy is known to be a lot of things – cutting edge, earth-friendly and forward thinking – but sadly looking pretty isn’t one of them...

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Here is a house that we bet you wish you grew up in. Built for a large family and developed to reduce its environmental footprint, this home feels a lot like summer camp. Located on a twenty acre site in a redwood forest,...

Let’s say that you found yourself in a possession of a lovely site with an old and dilapidated house. What is the green thing to do? Well, the Riddel Architecture team of David Gole and Emma Scragg decided to take the...

Architect David Wright helped pioneer the concept of passive solar architecture, and his thoughts and experiments have helped shape the evolution of solar design throughout the world...

Passive solar heating and passive cooling—approaches known as natural conditioning—provide comfort throughout the year by reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel...