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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 |
Stephanie Horowitz, Managing Director at ZeroEnergy Design, a Rate It Green Member, was recently interviewed for an article by Elizabeth Stamp of Architectural Digest: “How the Architecture Industry Is Reacting to Climate Change.” The article discusses the energy use and CO2 emissions that building construction contributes, and...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 04/03/2020 + Show |
Matt Hoots of Sawhorse Design, Inc. has created a video explaining some of the most important factors we should consider in managing cleaning, disinfecting and general safety as we spend more time at home and slow or close office building occupancy: VIDEO: "COMMON SENSE Dos and Don'ts To Protect Your Home and Office from...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 03/26/2020 + Show |
Global GreenTag Launches the World’s First Modern Slavery Transparency Declaration
“The time has come for Modern Slavery to be removed from history,” -Mary-Lou Kelly, Global GreenTag, Managing Director The Global GreenTag Modern Slavery Transparency Declaration (Global GreenTag MSD) is soon to be released, following a Stakeholder Review Process. At its core, this world’s...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 03/05/2020 + Show |
Global GreenTag Upgrades CarbonRATE™ Embodied Carbon Product Certification Program
CarbonRATE™ - a unique peer reviewed Embodied Carbon Product Certification Program - has been re-launched under the Global GreenTag International Certification Standard. According to Daniel A. Huard, CEO of Global GreenTag Americas, "CarbonRATE™ has been upgraded to strongly challenge the market to design, manufacture and use only...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 11/27/2019 + Show |
The nationally recognized green rating assessment, guidance and certification program Green Globes® that is registered under the GBI (Green Building Initiative) and used in a multitude of project types in the USA and Canada, has formally recognized Global GreenTag International’s advanced Product Health Declaration™ (the GreenTag...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 08/29/2019 + Show |
LEED® and USGBC Recognize Global GreenTag Product Health Declaration™ (the GreenTag PhD™)
The presence of Global GreenTag LLC, Americas in the US market is set to be enhanced further. The certifier’s Global GreenTag PhD, Materials Transparency Certification Program (reviewed and assessed by the LEED Committee and MR Technical Advisory Group (TAG) has been formally recognized within the LEED framework of Rating Systems. The...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 07/23/2019 + Show |
Job Posting - Mindful Materials - Market Development Coordinator
Mindful MATERIALS (mM) is growing. We are looking for a Market Development Coordinator to help broaden the reach and awareness of mM across the building industry to accelerate growth of the mM Library in order to meet collective industry need. The ideal candidate understands the building industry, is passionate about healthy buildings, has a...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 06/05/2019 + Show |
When it comes to green building design, the sky really is the limit these days. Which also means that a green home can look as modern, as traditional, or whatever mix the client wants. We decided to highlight this ZeroEnergy Design project precisely because of how great it fit into its typical Massachusetts suburban neighborhood while also...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 06/09/2018 + Show |
Green Gab Podcast - ECOBAGS and The Magic of Tiny Business, with Sharon Rowe, Aired May 26
Sharon Rowe, founder and CEO of ECOBAGS Products and author of The Magic of Tiny Business: You Don’t Have to Go Big to Make a Great Living, gabs with Marla and Tony about the origin and impact of her trademark lightweight, expandable, cotton string bag. SO many great concepts come up in this podcast, including reflection about some of the...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 06/07/2018 + Show |
Top Green Gifts for High Performing Homes - by Rate It Green Member Elemental Green
Are you looking for a gift for the sustainable people in your inner circle? Or, maybe even a gift for someone who you’d like to be more green? Our friends at Elemental Green have put together a fun and clever list of gifts that improve home performance. Items include: - Built-in kitchen countertop compost bin - Water-saving dual-mode...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 12/14/2017 + Show |
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