Sierra Club Green Home

Are your home energy bills out of hand? Does your house feel drafty even when you crank up the heat? Have you been dragging your feet on giving your home an energy-efficiency tune-up because you don’t know where to start? Watch this home energy audit video and then click to read how a home energy audit could start you on the path to having a green home.

The Wall Street Journal’s Gwendolyn Bounds walks us through an array of composters, demonstrates the pros and cons of each, and finally shows us how easy it is to get started! Take a few classes in composting 101 by watching this video.

Jennifer Schwab takes us on a tour of this 1,700 square foot urban residence. See how the architect, Jesse Bornstein, uses Energy Star appliances, soffit lighting, solar panels, and climate-appropriate planting to lower the home’s carbon footprint.

Jennifer Schwab takes NY Times editor, Tom Zeller Jr., on a tour of “The Visionaire”, a luxury, green high-rise in Battery Park, NY. The Visionaire is an uber-swanky, über-green — 251-unit, 35-story luxury condominium complex in Lower Manhattan that opened for business last fall. The building features Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) panels; a blackwater recycling system; a vegetation-rich “green” rooftop; amongst a host of other green features. The building just received its LEED Platinum Certification.

Tour the Bluebird Canyon home with designer and co-founder of New Leaf America, Chris Prelitz. From its stylish designs to multiple types of solar power, this beautiful, energy-efficient home is explained by Chris and Jennifer Schwab of Sierra Club Green Home!

Join Jennifer Schwab for a tour of Robert Sweet’s P-House. Robert has thoroughly thought through each component of his home to ensure it is as sustainable as possible.

Jennifer Schwab speaks with Scott Perry about the remodel of this 1,200 square foot home in Laurel Canyon.

Jennifer Schwab takes us on a tour of this 4,500 square foot home that boasts significant natural daylight, lots of sustainable materials and, of course, solar panels on the roof.

Part 2 of the tour through Chris Prelitz’s state-of-the-art green home visits his garden, self-contained landscaping, and his collection of LED lighting structures. See his natural solar design which keeps things cool, and warm, according to season.

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the Obama administration wanted to paint roofs an energy-reflecting white, as he took part in a climate change symposium.