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Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

Passive House: A new metric for 'green' homes

By | March 29, 2011, 8:13pm PDT

Summary: Sonoma, Calif., homeowner Catherine O’Neill decided last year to “green” her home, so she called on Rick Milburn, owner of Solar Knights Construction, to look at Passive House.

Sonoma, Calif., homeowner Catherine O’Neill decided last year to “green” her home, so she called on Rick Milburn, owner of Solar Knights Construction, to look at Passive House–a sustainable solution that focuses on energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and super-thick insulation. SmartPlanet takes a peak at the first Passive House retrofit in the United States.

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.

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Bill_SixPack 30th Mar 2011
This looks like a good idea for new construction...but I suspect that the payback period isn't marketable in the real world.

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