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Timber Frame Building Systems

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Global Green USA  Mission: Global Green USA is a national environmental organization addressing three of the greatest challenges facing humanity:

• Stemming global climate change by creating green buildings and cities.

• Eliminating weapons of mass destruction that threaten lives and the environment.

• Providing clean, safe drinking water for the 2.4 billion people who lack access to clean water.

FOLLOW THE LEADER! Learn about GE's commitment to alternative energy!

Buildingbiology.net  Bau-biologie™, a term coined in Germany, is a word used to describe a movement promoting the use of healthy building principles as a means to improve living and work spaces and the health of people who occupy them. Bau-biologie literally means, "building biology."

Greenhomebuilding.com Welcome to greenhomebuilding.com where you can find a wide range of information about sustainable architecture and natural building. As an example of natural building, the image at the upper left was taken during the construction of the earthbag house that has served as the home for greenhomebuilding.com and Kelly and Rosana Hart, your hosts.

Natural Home Magazine Featured in this issue: Secrets for a healthy home, A healthy house checklist, Ten great ways to clean up your indoor environment.

EcoTalk  Each day, Monday through Friday, Betsy Rosenberg and her guests bring you environmental news, views and voices from the frontlines of the sustainability movement

Global Exchange  Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.
 

Green Home Guide  We’re a trusted, community-based resource whose combination of tips, case studies, expert Q&A articles and regional directories of products and services helps millions of homeowners create homes that make them feel good.

The United States Green Building Council The U.S. Green Building Council's core purpose is to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life.

GreenerBuildings.Com Website Our mission is to provide hands-on tools, action steps, and other resources companies can use to understand the underlying issues, and to promote positive, cost-effective practices that improve buildings' environmental performance while simultaneously reducing costs and negative health impacts

Environmental Building News Published since 1992, Environmental Building News is a monthly newsletter featuring comprehensive, practical information on a wide range of topics related to sustainable building

Environmental Design & Construction Magazine the premier source for integrated high-performance building, is dedicated to efficient and sustainable design and construction. Since 1997, ED+C has supported, and will continue to support, the progressive architect, designer, specifying engineer and building developer to enhance the sustainability of new and existing buildings.

Rocky Mountain Institute  Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an independent, entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization. We foster the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining.

Tools for Building Green

Waste Calculator

BEES (Building for Environmental & Economic Sustainability)LCA  The BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) software brings to your fingertips a powerful technique for selecting cost-effective, environmentally-preferable building products.

Whole Building Design Guide The WBDG is the only web-based portal providing government and industry practitioners with one-stop access to up-to-date information on a wide range of building-related guidance, criteria and technology from a 'whole buildings' perspective. Currently organized into two major categories—Design Guidance and Project Management—at the heart of the WBDG are Resource Pages, reductive summaries on particular topics.

California Integrated Waste Management Board Sustainable Building Tool Kit This tool kit was created by the California Sustainable Building Task Force to assist project managers and provide quick, direct access to helpful information and documents.

 Materials and Products

Panelized Building Systems  Precision engineering creates a more efficient building envelope and greatly reduced waste.

GreenSpec Directory--BuildingGreen's product directory  GreenSpec is BuildingGreen's premiere product information service. It contains detailed listings for more than 2,000 environmentally preferable building products with descriptions, manufacturer information, and links to additional resources.

Environmental Home Center our products must offer additional tangible benefits: They protect health, use energy and other resources sparingly, and are extraordinarily well made.
 

Livingreen Store and Gallery We cater to professionals and homeowners who are conscious about the type of products that they are using in their homes and businesses. We can ship our products to most areas in the U.S.

Oikos-Green Building Products and News Oikos is a World Wide Web site devoted to serving professionals whose work promotes sustainable design and construction. That's a broad goal, but then environmental sustainability touches virtually every aspect of a building.
 

Interstate Renewable Energy Council  The Interstate Renewable Energy Council’s mission is to accelerate the sustainable utilization of renewable energy sources and technologies in and through state and local government and community activities. The Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) supports market-oriented services targeted at education, coordination, procurement, the adoption and implementation of uniform guidelines and standards, workforce development, and consumer protection.

Alliance to Save Energy  The Alliance to Save Energy promotes energy efficiency worldwide to achieve a healthier economy, a cleaner environment, and greater energy security. Energy efficiency is the quickest, cheapest, cleanest way to extend our world's energy supplies.

Department of Energy Advice for Homeowners 

Your home uses energy every day, all day long. It uses energy to keep you warm in the winter and cool in the summer. It uses energy to provide you with light when you need it. It uses energy to provide you with hot water. And it uses energy to run all of your appliances and home electronics.

Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings 

When you buy an appliance, you commit to paying both the first cost and the operating cost for as long as you own it. And over the life of an appliance, the energy cost to run it can be many times greater than the first cost. So it pays to buy an energy-efficient appliance

Energysavers.gov - for homeowners and landlords  Energy Savers primarily focuses on existing homes — both owned and rented. The following Web links are designed to provide practical information to improve the energy efficiency of their properties to homeowners and rental property owners wishing to make improvements.

Home Energy Magazine  Home Energy magazine’s mission is to disseminate objective and practical information on residential energy efficiency, performance, comfort, and affordability.

Learn About Wind Energy  AWEA is a national trade association that represents wind power plant developers, wind turbine manufacturers, utilities, consultants, insurers, financiers, researchers, and others involved in the wind industry -- one of the world's fastest growing energy industries.

Tax Credits for Efficiency Improvements  The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT), signed by President Bush on August 8, 2005, offers consumers and businesses federal tax credits beginning in January 2006 for purchasing fuel-efficient hybrid-electric vehicles and energy-efficient appliances and products. Most of these tax credits remain in effect through 2007.

Weatherize Your Home  Warmed or air-conditioned air mixes with outside air through gaps in your home's thermal envelope-exterior walls, win­dows, doors,the roof, and floors. Such air leaks can waste large amounts of energy.  

Environmental Energy Solutions

Solar Energy International
Ongoing classes
www.solarenergy.org

Custom Panelized Homes

Architecture: Grew Design

Attorney: Neil Marcus

Energy Vectors, operating since 1980, is a manufacturer's rep, design and service firm specializing in building energy systems and providing products, applications, design, engineering and customer service.
 

D&D Heating and Air Conditioning, LLC provides complete sales and installations of geo thermal systems. We provide the highest quality installations to provide years of trouble free operation, while providing economical operation. Your comfort is our goal!

Seguin Heating and Air Conditioning CO. Inc.  Seguin HVAC is a full service installation Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning contracting company located at 21 South End Plaza in New Milford, Connecticut. We have been in business since 1983 and take pride in the fact that all of our services are provided in house and all technicians are in the employ of our company. We provide engineering services such as computer heating and cooling load calculations, system design, sales and service. We are dedicated to providing every customer with quality workmanship, service and the individual attention that is required to do a professional job.

Solar Works, Inc. is a renewable energy systems integrator and contractor, providing solar electric (photovoltaic) and solar thermal systems for residential, commercial, and institutional customers. Since 1980, Solar Works has offered design, installation, and technical services to customers worldwide.

SolarWrights, Inc.Founder and principal Owner, Bob Chew is a nationally recognized expert in solar energy and has been a tireless promoter of renewable energy. He wrote the Rhode Island Renewable Tax Credit legislation and the legislation that made renewable energy equipment tax exempt. SolarWrights has been responsible for installing over 80% of all photovoltaic systems that have been funded by the Rhode Island Renewable Energy Fund.
 
PV Squared is a worker-owned cooperative dedicated to making our shared community a better place to work and live. We are based out of two offices in western Massachusetts and central Connecticut. Our organization is committed to the highest quality service for you, while providing jobs at fair wages in our community. We are eager to move toward a sustainable society by learning and adapting to new circumstances in ways that nurture and restore, rather than harm, natural systems.

Sunlight Solar  Solar installation

Basement Systems is the world's largest network of basement waterproofing and crawl space environment contractors, spanning the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
 

CCEF has selected a group of professional solar PV installers.   These companies provide consumers with information and details of installing a residential solar PV system. The installers apply for the incentive on behalf of state residents and reduce the cost of the solar PV system by the amount of the rebate. They are responsible for all the paperwork necessary to obtain the incentive from the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund on behalf of state residents. To begin the process of applying for a rebate, contact some of the eligible installers listed in the attachment below.

List Of Eligible Participating Installers Updated 8/10/06

http://www.igshpa.okstate.edu/