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Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Don’t miss our video tours of gorgeous green homes, hosted by Sierra Club Green Home’s Director of Sustainability, Jennifer Schwab. And if you’re thinking about tackling a green home improvement project, check out the green home how-to videos from the Sierra Club, Green Dream Group and others.
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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.
Featuring Sierra Club Green Home's own Jennifer Schwab
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.
Featuring Sierra Club Green Home's own Jennifer Schwab
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.
Featuring Sierra Club Green Home's own Jennifer Schwab
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!
Featuring Sierra Club Green Home's own Jennifer Schwab
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.
Featuring Sierra Club Green Home's own Jennifer Schwab
Jennifer Schwab speaks with Scott Perry about the remodel of this 1,200 square foot home in Laurel Canyon.
Featuring Sierra Club Green Home's own Jennifer Schwab
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.
Featuring Sierra Club Green Home's own Jennifer Schwab
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.
Edmund Haemmerle of NJ Renewable Energy
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.
Featuring Sierra Club Green Home's own Jennifer Schwab
Jennifer Schwab & Chris Prelitz explain low-flow showerheads,
dual-flush & H.E.T. toilets, greywater systems, the best ways to
conserve water and the challenge of getting to 0% water usage by using rainwater!
Edmund Haemmerle of NJ Renewable Energy
Edmund Haemmerle of NJ Renewable Energy provides a detailed tour of his home weatherization project.
This is the final installment of Chris & Jennifer’s tour of the Bluebird home.
Produced by Our Renewable Nation and hosted on http://www.gogreentube.com
Young Carrick McCullough provides a fun and informative tour describing all the energy-efficient aspects of his home.
Featuring Sierra Club Green Home's own Jennifer Schwab
Jennifer Schwab interviews Chris Prelitz as he discusses his new book “Green Made Easy”, which focuses on his childhood, early beginnings of a green lifestyle, and some economical and sustainable ways for all of us to go green.
Produced by Owen Bailey and the Sierra Club
Owen Bailey from the Sierra Club shows us how to compost biodegradeable waste for reuse as fertilizer for our yard.
Featuring Sierra Club Green Home's own Jennifer Schwab
Check out Chris Prelitz of New Leaf America as he interviews Jennifer Schwab, SCGH Director of Sustainability, about how Americans can go green without dramatically changing their lifestyles.
Produced by Owen Bailey and the Sierra Club
Owen Bailey shows us how to install a low-flow showerhead to reduce water consumption and energy use.
Produced by Owen Bailey and the Sierra Club
Owen Bailey from the Sierra Club shows us how to install a programmable thermostat – a quick ticket to big energy savings.
Featuring Sierra Club Green Home's own Jennifer Schwab
Watch as Chris Prelitz of New Leaf America and Jennifer Schwab of SCGH educate people on the best programs, places & ways to help green your home. How do residents in cold climates vs. hot weather go green? Find out in this informative video clip!
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