Make Your Home Tight, Right and Sustainable.

Tight Castle provides helpful information on sustainable design, green building for reducing carbon footprint. A tight home saves energy, reduces global warming, provides increased comfort and is healthier for occupants. LEED for homes design, green construction techniques and clean energy should be priorities in new home construction and renovation. We encourage home owners to have a home energy audit as a first step toward reducing carbon footprint.

Consumer Reports: What’s the greenest countertop material?

Q&A: What’s the greenest countertop material? As part of our kitchen remodel, we plan to use highly efficient appliances and windows and even green flooring. Is there an eco-friendly counter we can use? None of the 11 different countertop materials we've tested is green. Even the single paper-composite counter we've tested isn't completely green. While [...]

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Top 10 green building products of 2010

Green buildings take green products and the Sustainable Industries Top 10 Green Building Products 2010 guide can help companies decide which products should go in their eco-friendly building. The top 10 products were chosen from more than 100 entries and were evaluated on several different criteria including environmental performance, design aesthetic, and compatibility with the [...]

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Green Roofs Take Root in NYC

The rooftops of Manhattan are as varied as the city itself. A glance at the city skyline reveals a myriad of shapes and colors. Look a little closer and the shapes reveal themselves to be the things we often see rooted on Manhattan buildings, such as water towers, ventilation systems and communications equipment. But, on [...]

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Microsoft Hohm scores home energy efficiency

Microsoft is trying to garner more interest in its Hohm home energy app through neighborly competition. The software giant released on Wednesday the Hohm Score, a free Web application that judges a home's estimated energy efficiency based on its general size and location. With estimations already in place, Hohm has determined that homes with the [...]

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Buyers will pay more for green features: poll – Hotspotting.com.au | Helping Real Estate Investors find the Next Big Thing

A poll indicates 59% of home hunters would pay more for an environmentally-friendly property. According to the PRDnationwide poll, 30% of respondents would pay up to $10,000 more to buy a house with green features, 20% would pay between $10,000 and $30,000 extra, while 9% would spend $30,000-plus. PRDnationwide managing director Jim Midgley says most [...]

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3 Disadvantages of Owning a Natural Gas Tankless Water Heater | DoItYourself.com

A natural gas tankless water heater can provide instant hot water and replace your own water heater. However, before you buy one, there are a few drawbacks that you should consider. via 3 Disadvantages of Owning a Natural Gas Tankless Water Heater | DoItYourself.com.

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How Dyson’s Air Multiplier Works — With Less Energy

Source: www.pocket-lint.com So, you’ve read about the Dyson Air Multiplier, and you’ve looked at the photos, but you’re still baffled about how the damn thing works. You’ve seen vague promises of “Engineering” being responsible (which we’ve come under criticism for, for some reason), but here’s – in gory physics-y detail – roughly what’s going on [...]

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