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This spring, Beyond Efficiency is calling for proposals from organizations or families in need of building-related technical assistance.

I am reminded every day that the old adage “The devil is in the details!” rings true in our quest for high performance building construction—as much any other endeavor.

In late September I gave a presentation at the 12th Annual North American Passiv

Thanks to a recent presentation by Pierre Delforge from the Natural Resources Defense Council (select sides below), the case for deploying heat pump water heaters to replace both electric and

Are there "dirty" hours when the California electric grid is producing a lot of CO2 per kWh, and "clean" hours with low CO2 output?

With record setting rain and snow fall the past 5 months, 75% of California is out of the drought.

Passive House California's 3rd annual conference was hands-down the best yet.

Beyond Efficiency will be presenting at two upcoming Passive House conferences and we hope to see you in California, Maine, or both:

For the past four months, I've spent a day a month at the Pacific Energy Center in an intensive retrocommissioning class.

Tomorrow I'm off to my 3rd conference in the last 3 weeks, this one in Pittsburgh.

Part II in Passive House California's Building Carbon Zero California series is scheduled for October 3rd at the Frank Lloyd Wright

What if every project we worked on committed to five things? "

High Performance Details For California Climates: Lessons Learned--Passive House advocates Katy Hollbacher, Bronwyn Barry and Mary James are delivering this presentation at the upcoming 2012 ACI...

Visit Beyond Efficiency and Sunlight Design at Booth #9 April 15-16 at 

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