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!
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.
What's Your Zero Net Energy Plan?
California is currently on target for requiring Zero Net Energy (ZNE) performance from all new residential construction by 2020, and new commercial construction by 2030. While just how the State of California will define ZNE is still being finalized (see our blog “Defining ZNE - Not As Easy as You Think!”), the technologies and design features to make your next project energy self-sufficient are available today.