TVA Offers Free Energy Conservation Kit

In exchange for completing an online home energy audit TVA is offering to mail consumers free energy-efficiency kits. I thought it was good motivation to do something I keep putting off.  It took me about 25 minutes to do ours and pretty much covered all of our main energy consumption habits. When you're done you have a handy energy analysis of your home and you can continue to add the more recent information every month from your NES bill to keep track of your progress. To read more about it and do the audit go to www.energyright.com.

Turn More Stuff Off...

... And lots of other easy, energy-saving projects 

by Gary Reysa for Mother Earth News.

Green Building Primer

Inhabitat.com has written this great introduction to green building. It's a series of articles, each one a primer on a particular concept such as "Energy & Atmosphere" and "Water Efficiency" etc. I read a section every so often and it gives me a good starting point for further reading. Have a look-see.

Nashville Architecture Firm Walks the Talk

Centric Architecture have made some changes in their office focusing on renewables, local resources and lower consumption. Cheers! Click here to read the Tennessean article.

Check out Centric Architecture's website.