Seek HERS Rating for Energy Efficiency Proof
Posted: May 15th, 2016In: Articles, Green Building Innovations, News and Events0The only rating currently offering quantifiable and comparable insight for a homeowner/buyer regarding monthly utility costs is the Home Energy Rating System, most often referred to as the HERS Index. A HERS Rating number is[...]
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HERS is your MPG when seeking a Sustainable Home
Posted: Apr 24th, 2016In: Articles, Sustainable Home Technologies0Sustainable Home by Envirohaven® Looking for a Sustainable Home? The HERS Rating Is Your MPG Rating- Part One of Two Why aren’t we demanding an MPG rating for our homes? A 2014 Neilson survey found[...]
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Haven® Sustainable Home Wins Big At Builders Association Awards
Posted: Nov 23rd, 2015In: Articles, Awards, Envirohaven News and Events, Homepage0Thank you Builders Association of Northern Nevada (BANN) judges and Frame Architecture for honoring the Haven® sustainable home design in two categories of the 2015 BANN-er Awards; Best Custom Home Under $250,000 and Best Use of[...]
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Solar Thermal Systems: 2015 Energy Conservation Regulations
Posted: Aug 9th, 2015In: Articles0We are all guilty of using a little too much hot water in our daily routines. While doing this, water heaters can be taken for granted. Regulations for energy conservation are continuously improving and changing[...]
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Life in a Sustainable Haven™ Home, Chapter 4: Earth tube cooled air
Posted: Jun 29th, 2015In: Articles0After keeping comfortable with relatively little effort and cost all winter, we were a bit nervous about how comfortable our sustainable Haven™ home would be when temps heat up during the summer time, without mechanical air-conditioning[...]
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Off-Grid Building: The Haven™
Posted: Jun 14th, 2015In: Articles0Last fall six of us piled into a truck and moved out into the desolate and rural desert mountains outside of Lovelock, Nevada to build Envirohaven’s first fully functioning off-grid Haven™. We spent a total[...]
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Small House Design in Reno, NV
Posted: Jun 8th, 2015In: Articles, Pictures, The Haven0Have you noticed the increase in popularity of tiny house and small house design? Although this may seem like a recent trend, smaller low-cost homes utilizing efficiency in space and storage have a history. In the 1920’s[...]
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Solar Panel Basics: Creating a Low-Cost Sustainable Living Space
Posted: May 15th, 2015In: Articles0There are two kinds of solar panel systems, solar thermal and photovoltaic (PV). Each use solar panels to allow us to use solar energy. Solar energy is when a photon is absorbed and then turned into[...]
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