Celebrating Green Schools will be the focus of this year’s Central Coast Green Building Council (CCGBC) Green Gala. Join local educators, design professionals, and sustainability leaders from the community who create healthy, green environments for local schools and children.
One Water – Moving Beyond Purple Pipe
The One Water movement is an approach to water use and infrastructure that places value on all water whether rainwater, watershed or ‘waste’ water. Especially in the continued California drought, H2O is highly valued no matter its source, and we need to shift our paradigm to support our own water-use cycle: use, then re-use, re-use and re-use!
Zero Net Carbon
By now, many people are familiar with Zero Net Energy (ZNE) and California’s pursuit of the standard for new residential and commercial buildings in the next decade and a half. While defining ZNE presents some challenges (see our recent blog post), work is already beginning to expand the concept to include the carbon footprint of a building’s energy as well.
Unitarian Universalists’ Roof-top Solar Installation
In Balance Green Consulting sized the system, gathering the previous few years’ worth of available electricity bills, and used that data to evaluate different options. In the end, the church selected a system designed to offset 99% of the annual electricity cost and around 90% of the actual energy use.