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Heat Pumps 101 - Comfort, Health, Savings, Energy Efficiency, and Lower Emissions
If you’re even thinking about energy efficiency, or if you’ve been considering HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning system) improvements or building renovations of any kind, you’ve likely heard many mentions in recent communications and news about heat pumps. What are heat pumps, and why are they suddenly everywhere? The short answer is that heat pumps can do the same work as fossil fuel powered equipment when it ...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 05/01/2024 + Show |
Windows and Energy Efficiency - Factors for Making Better Choices
Green Builder Matt Hoots of Sawhorse, Inc . and Mike Barcik, a Technical Principal at Southface, recently teamed up for a helpful conversation about windows and energy efficiency . The two review quite a few key concepts that everyone should know, and many of us likely don’t. Among other topics, Mike and Matt help bust some myths about window replacement. New, m...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 02/06/2024 + Show |
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Introduction and Update
What is the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)? Signed into law on August 16, 2022, The Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, represents the largest US legislative investment in energy efficiency and clean energy, and stands as a significant climate bill in many respects, including that the IRA uses “carrots” to incentivize investment over “sticks” like fees and punishment. Though it’s not apparent ...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 02/02/2024 + Show |
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) - Tools & Resources
This list is an evolving effort to share helpful Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA-related information we have found to date. Please feel welcome to share your favorite tools, platforms, organizations, and additional federal and other energy efficiency and clean energy resources! It's an understatement to say the IRA is big and complicated. We'll learn from each other and make more progress together, so that everyo...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 01/26/2024 + Show |
The Perfect Wall, Explained - and Demonstrated
According to Green Builder Matt Hoots of Sawhorse, Inc. , "The Perfect Wall” is an advanced way of insulating, air sealing, and keeping air and water vapor out of buildings in a logical manner. This efficient description supports the idea that green building is really just smart building. If we're logical and aim for best practices and conditions with great products, while minimizing material and resou...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 01/23/2024 + Show |
Welcome to the #1920sMakeoverATL Project! See the Virtual Tour Below, or Click to Visit the full-view version ! Green Builder Matt Hoots of Sawhorse, Inc. and his team and Project Partners will be be gutting a charming 1920s Ansley Park Atlanta home down to the studs and then rebuilding it back with a goal to make this the most energy-efficient house in this zip code! As the ...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 04/25/2023 + Show |
Building Electrification: Why It Matters to Your Wallet, Health, Comfort, and the Environment
What is Building Electrification? Building electrification might sound complicated, but the concept is actually both simple and critically important. Electrification means using electricity to power buildings instead of fossil fuels, which are primarily used in structures to power heating, cooling, water heating, and cooking. Electric vehicle charging capacity has also become a part of building electrification consideration...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 02/28/2023 + Show |
Electric Lawn and Garden Equipment - A Revolution in the Making
Have you woken up or tried to work to the sound of a noisy leaf blower? Have you gotten caught in the gas fumes behind gas powered lawn and other maintenance equipment? Lawn maintenance and outdoor power equipment such as mowers, leaf blowers, edgers, trimmers, and chain saws are clearly pesty, unhealthy, and cause negative environmental and climate impacts. Fortunately, a better option already exists. Due in large par...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 03/01/2023 + Show |
2050 has long been the year cited by which carbon emissions must be reduced by zero, which was already a step more aggressive than the stretch Paris Agreement goal of limited global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050. Now, the authors of the 2035 report and others are increasingly arguing that the new goal for net zero must be 2035 (or even 2030) to prevent the worst effects of climate change from taking place. Why th...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 03/02/2023 + Show |
Reducing the Natural Gas “Bridge,” for Human and Environmental Health
The Risks and Dangers Associated with Natural Gas To reach critical and urgent climate change mitigation goals, we must decrease global carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. To achieve this reduction, there is no doubt we must decrease dependence on all fossil fuels, including natural gas, while also producing and consuming these energy sources more cleanly. We must also imme...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 03/03/2023 + Show |
Low VOC, Recycled Rubber Flooring, from Rubber Floors and More (Video)
Join Matt Hoots at the 2020 Atlanta Build Expo as he talks to Alan Quinn about Rubber Floors and More. Alan introduces the company's Low VOC rolled and interlocking rubber floors, made from recycled and then cleaned tires and manufactured in Pennsylvania. Rubber flooring are durable, anti-slip, and...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 07/23/2020 + Show |
VIDEO: Solaria Lighting - Unique Designs Handmade in Nashville, Tennessee
Matt Hoots had the opportunity to talk with Josh Walters at the 2020 Atlanta Build Expo to learn about Solaria Lighting and their really creative light fixtures. Most of Solaria's lights are handmade in Nashville, Tennessee. The company makes a lot of weathered, antiqued, and aged products, which can add character over...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 07/22/2020 + Show |
In this video, Mark Dover of Georgia Lightscapes explains how converting to LED lighting can reduce maintenance costs and lower HVAC energy usage, cutting lighting bills in half. Mark explains that LEDs never get hot, unlike incandescent bulbs, so they literally affect HVAC costs. Additionally, there’s no need to...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 07/20/2020 + Show |
VIDEO: Introducing Wooster Products Inc's VOC Free Walk-A-Sured Anti-Slip Coating
In this video, Ryan from Wooster Products Inc. introduces Matt Hoots to the NO VOC Walk-A-Sured clear anti-slip epoxy coating. The idea of Walk-A-Sured is to provide an anti-slip surface while allowing the beauty of stone and other surfaces to shine through. Walk-A-Sured is chemical, solvent, and water...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 07/20/2020 + Show |
Hybrid Heat Pump Water Heaters by Rheem - 3x More Energy Efficient (Video)
Join Matt Hoots and Alan from Rheem for an introduction to Rheem's Hybrid Electric Heat Pump Water Heaters. These water heaters are hybird as the combine a heat pump with traditional water heating technology. Hybrid heat pump water heaters can be three times more efficient - where a typical home might spend $450 a...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 07/20/2020 + Show |
Learning About Rockwool's Versatility with Matt Hoots at the International Builders Show (Video)
Did you know that Rockwool is actually made out of volcanically derived rock - basalt from the earth’s crust and recycled steel slag? Join Matt Hoots of Sawhorse Design, Inc. and Dan Edelman of Rockwool to learn more about Rockwool's insulating products. Rockwool's stone (or mineral) wool leverages 7...
By Rate It Green Team 1 reply Last updated: 07/18/2020 + Show |
Imagine a coating that can lower your operating costs by protecting against heat transfer and erosion. In this video, Matt Hoots of Sawhorse, Inc. interviews Tommy Sharp with Rate It Green Member Company ThermaCote. Thermacote is a lightweight, waterproof, high-performance ceramic insulating coating/weather barrier that...
By Rate It Green Team 1 reply Last updated: 07/17/2020 + Show |
An Introduction to Thermal Temperature Screening with C3 Communications (Video)
Have you been scanned yet to take your temperature? Have you been wondering how these systems work? What happens to the data? Join Matt Hoots of Sawhorse, Inc. and Darrius Key of C3 Communications at the Build Expo Atlanta Show for an introdution to the thermal temperature screening systems that are rapidly becoming a part of...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 07/17/2020 + Show |
Global GreenTag International, the green product certification scheme from ‘Downunder,’ has just increased it benefits to building industries globally, receiving news that leading building certification and rating system LEED® Versions 4.0 and 4.1 now formally recognizes its ground-breaking Product Health Declaration™...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 07/16/2020 + Show |
Check out these recently posted positions with Earth Advantage: Senior Business Development Manager - Green Real Estate Services Under the direction of the senior management team, the Sr. Business Development Manager—Green Real Estate Services develops a game plan for focused outreach to the real estate industry related to green home...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 06/30/2020 + Show |
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