Covered topics include:
- Building envelope basics
- Best bang for your buck
-Weatherstripping and insulating
- Additional energy & resource conservation measures
- Saving green while keeping it green
- Getting it done
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NEXUS: Buttoning Up Your Home for the Winter
1. The Green Roundtable
and
Buttoning up for the winter-
Basics of home energy
conservation
2. Green Roundtable
Consulting, education, training
and strategic planning
to create healthy environments by
integrating principles of
sustainability into mainstream
planning, design and construction.
3.
4. Objectives
Discuss:
- Easy ways to reduce energy consumption in the home
(low-hanging fruit)
- Additional cost-effective measures (higher cost but
potentially big returns)
- Energy efficient lighting, appliances & equipment
- Improving performance of building envelope
(insulating & air sealing)
- Basic economics- incentives, payback time, etc.
6. General approaches
- Make simple lifestyle adjustments
- Improve maintenance routines
- Make simple upgrades to fixtures in the home
- Upgrade appliances and equipment
- Make improvements to the building envelope