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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 |
Global GreenTag Releases the First Modern Slavery Reporting Declaration for Products
Global GreenTag has released the first ever Modern Slavery Declaration for products. The Global GreenTag International MSD™ Modern Slavery Transparency Declaration (GGTI MSD) implements a comprehensive risk assessment and verification process in association with manufacturers on individual product supply chains. Helping manufacturers to monitor, report on and ultimately eradicate human slavery occurring in thei...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 03/03/2023 + Show |
Recorded Webinar: Kicking Gas! Going All-Electric for the Health of Your Family and the Earth Recorded: June 30, 2021 Speaker: Ann V. Edminster, M.Arch. (See speaker introduction below) This presentation covers the nuts and bolts of making the switch -- transitioning mixed-fuel homes to 100% electricity. Ann...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 12/22/2021 + Show |
A Rate It Green Content Guide to: Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
Indoor air quality, or IAQ, awareness has been growing in recent years due in some part to the COVID pandemic and increasing outdoor air pollution concerns such as wildfire exhaust/pollution, which enters buildings and irritates and causes health problems for occupants. Though IAQ is newer to many as a topic, building scientists and...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 12/21/2021 + Show |
A Rate It Green Content Guide to: Electrification
As an open green building resource and member community, Rate It Green is excited to host and promote all the content possible on electrification (and that's a lot) and other important and related sustainable building, energy, and environmental topics. Continue reading to see the electrification information we've...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 12/17/2021 + Show |
Tom Marks of Stego Barrier Solutions gives a helpful, efficient and information-filled introduction to Stego Barrier Solutions and the key goals and quality characteristics of vapor barriers as well in this interview with Green Builder Matt Hoots. Tom is the Business Development Manager and also leads Stego’s sustainability...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 12/07/2021 + Show |
Recently, three homeowners walked through their home energy retrofit experiences as part of a compelling MetroWest Climate Solutions Presentation about reducing fossil fuel consumption and decarbonizing buildings. Our team at Rate It Green was super excited to see people taking the time to document and share what they had done and lessons...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 11/29/2021 + Show |
Take a Virtual High Performance Home Tour with ZeroEnergy Design
Check out ZeroEnergy Design’s Belmont, MA high performance home, and take this online tour at your convenience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwQjDvc_XSU! ZED’s Matt Genaze and Auburndale Builders' Ryan McCarthy walk us through this energy efficient home, including design, systems, renewable energy,...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 11/12/2021 + Show |
Garage Fire Safety & Indoor Air Quality Issues
Attached garages sure offer comfort and convenience, allowing occupants to move from vehicles into the built environment without risking expose to the elements. In this "Fresh Air Fridays” video by Green Builder Matt Hoots of Sawhorse, Inc., makes clear that they can also pose health and safety threats if not built...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 10/21/2021 + Show |
Paint and Drywall Moisture Failures Due to Improper Caulking - Prevention, and Solutions
What can can pass through your walls with ease, and cause all kinds of problems, but is not a ghost? There is more than one possible answer actually, but for this next installment in our “Scary Building Stories,” we’re talking about water vapor. Due to the damage water vapor can cause, some people might actually...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 10/19/2021 + Show |
One Family's Radon Story - Testing and Continuous Monitoring are Key
What is invisible, dangerous, and can occur in both old and new homes, that we also need special equipment to detect? In this video, Christopher Matos-Rogers of the Matos-Rogers Group talks about radon. Importantly, he shares his own experience and that of the previous owner of his family’s home as they detected...
By Rate It Green Team 1 reply Last updated: 10/12/2021 + Show |
Matt Hoots’ dog Oliver was lucky enough to go out on a fun, awesome walk in the fresh air on a beautiful sunny day recently, and Matt of course got to thinking and took the opportunity to share about the value of fresh air, and clean air generally. They were outside, but Matt was thinking about how we get all this great air inside....
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 09/30/2021 + Show |
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