Home Resource Efficiencies
The morning air is cooler now. You know it’s getting to be late summer, and we’re beginning to think about, don’t say it, Fall. You’ve mowed the lawn, picked vegetables, cut flowers to bring inside all season, or not. Now is a great time to think about what went...
Welcome to the Healthy Home Habitats house!
How is it that I've never posted about this amazing and challenging adventure; the renovation of an older home to be efficient in so many ways? This house is now two homes instead of one; with as much solar power as could be fit on an unusual roof; with heat/AC pumps...
Annual Solar Shift
Yay! I bet someone else notes this day annually too? There must be a term for it. From this day forward the Healthy Home Habitats house catches up to what we used last winter and now starts saving kWH to use next winter for heat and household electricity. It costs us...
HHH’s Solar Panels Create Electricity for its HVAC!
Name: Michele Chalice, Healthy Home Habitats What motivated you to install solar?: My commitment to collectively healing our planet with less destructive energy choices. The energy from our panels lessens my guilt from the multitude of other environmental...
Favorite Environmental Actions at Home
Purple kale alongside the porch, Red Runner Beans and cucumbers hanging on the fence, pumpkins up a trellis and peach trees at the sidewalk, . I love that at least this food will not burn fossil fuel being shipped cross country to our table. I love that we grow them...
Healthy Home Habitats & Revision Energy Join Forces!
https://www.revisionenergy.com/blogs/healthy-home-habitats/ Go Solar when the numbers work! My payback period for both the solar and the heat pumps is 15 years. Love that $14/mo. electric bill and the ½ tank of oil each winter. Efficiency is Key! And don't forget...
Less Consumption, Less Damage, More Life!
I couldn’t agree more Lloyd Alter, in your recent Treehugger article “Why are there so many fist pumps for heat pumps these days?” Reducing demand is the challenge, the goal and so very achievable with daily decisions and choices that value the health of our planet...
A Summer Window Dance for Staying Cool
It's summer. Yay! And daytime temperatures are now exceeding 85 degrees. 🙁 So now we start the summer, energy-efficiency, window dance to begin at the Healthy Home Habitats house. Yes, the solar panels & heat pumps here provided 90% of our heat this past winter...
Catching the Flash Rain Water for Later
Oh boy, no rain again today... “Wait Mommy, I’ll turn on the rain for you!” my young daughter said as she ran to one of the rain-barrels along the dripline of our roof years ago. “In 2012, the top 1 percent of rainfall events in the northeast carried 71 percent more...