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Affordable Homes Use Solar Energy in Kansas City

Monday, Jan 11th, 2010 by Susan
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Who says affordable homes can’t use renewable energy?  Ann Brandau-Murguia, Argentine Neighborhood Development Association, and Bob Solger, The Energy Savings Store, prove that solar can work for all types of homes. 
This picture shows them standing in front of one of four new energy efficient homes in the Argentine area of Kansas City, Kansas.  Solger’s Lenexa, KS,  based [...]

Dearborn Family Supplements Heating with Solar Solution

Friday, May 15th, 2009 by Steve O'Rourke
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If you have a great room with a south-facing exterior wall, you have a great opportunity to very cost effectively leverage solar power in your home.  Jim and Susan Brown of Dearborn, Missouri, did that by installing a solar air heating system from The Energy Savings Store.  The system enables them to save more than [...]

Building the Solar-Ready Home

Monday, May 4th, 2009 by Steve O'Rourke
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It’s an interesting study to see how home building techniques and materials have evolved over time, and how new ideas that were once radical have become common.  Drywall, for example, quickly replaced lath and plaster as the standard for interior walls, and radiators were replaced by forced air systems.  As we began closing the windows [...]

Net-Zero Energy Farm is Model for Sustainability

Saturday, Nov 1st, 2008 by Steve O'Rourke
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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. [...]