Janet Chapman wanted to build a new home that included solar thermal radiant floor heating, solar hot water and straw bale construction – not something the average home builder in the Kansas City area has done before.
She was thrilled to find Greg Rothers at Rothers Design/Build . Greg had experience with straw bale construction and [...]
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Home Builder Partnerships Create Unique Homes
Monday, Feb 22nd, 2010 by Susan B.
More Stories: Residential Radiant Floor Heating, Residential Solar Hot Water, Uncategorized | Tags: home builders kansas city, homes in kansas city with solar hot water, homes in kansas city with solar radiant floors, solar panels kansas city missouri
More Stories: Residential Radiant Floor Heating, Residential Solar Hot Water, Uncategorized | Tags: home builders kansas city, homes in kansas city with solar hot water, homes in kansas city with solar radiant floors, solar panels kansas city missouri
Calculating the Lifetime Payback on Renewable Energy
Monday, May 4th, 2009 by Steve O'Rourke
More Stories: Commercial Solar Hot Water, Financial Incentives, Residential Projects, Residential Radiant Floor Heating, Residential Solar Hot Water, Residential Solar PV, Residential Wind
More Stories: Commercial Solar Hot Water, Financial Incentives, Residential Projects, Residential Radiant Floor Heating, Residential Solar Hot Water, Residential Solar PV, Residential Wind
While many people love the idea of using clean, renewable energy from the sun and wind, they find the investment significant enough to think twice about the purchase. The installed cost of a mid-sized wind turbine or solar photovoltaic (PV) system is about $20,000, and does not provide the same visibility or utility as a [...]
Net-Zero Energy Farm is Model for Sustainability
Saturday, Nov 1st, 2008 by Steve O'Rourke
More Stories: Commercial Solar PV, Commercial Wind, Residential Projects, Residential Radiant Floor Heating, Residential Solar Air Heating, Residential Solar Hot Water, Residential Solar PV, Residential Wind | Tags: Skystream, SolarSheat, SunEarth, Uni-Solar
More Stories: Commercial Solar PV, Commercial Wind, Residential Projects, Residential Radiant Floor Heating, Residential Solar Air Heating, Residential Solar Hot Water, Residential Solar PV, Residential Wind | Tags: Skystream, SolarSheat, SunEarth, Uni-Solar
The Green Dirt Farm, located just north of Kansas City in Weston, Missouri, is a small community-based farm dedicated to producing healthy food in a sustainable environment. The entire farm complex was designed to be a net-zero energy farmstead, producing 100 percent of the energy for the operation using a combination of solar and wind. [...]