Switch to solar with a system built for you. If you’re building a new home, it makes sense to do it in a way that employs free, renewable energy when it’s available. Most home designs don’t prioritize ...

Even diehard Instagrammers admit it: Sometimes the best design is in what you don’t see. Such is the case with passive solar design, an approach to building that—in a nutshell—uses a house’s site, ...

Passive solar architecture is a design strategy that optimizes a building’s energy efficiency and long-term sustainability. By relying on a building site’s solar orientation and climate, sustainable ...

A passive solar house is typically designed from scratch factoring in several considerations to boost the structure’s ability to naturally keep the interior living spaces a comfortable air temperature ...

As I discussed in last week’s column ("Resilience: Dramatically Better Building Envelopes," Jan. 4), a resilient home is extremely well-insulated, so that it can be kept warm with very little ...

Find the best solar options for your home and budget. Find the best solar options for your home and budget. Since ancient times, people have found ways to use the sun’s heat to stay warm or keep cool.

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Wayne Nichols recalled the fervor for passive solar design during and following the energy crisis of the 1970s. ...

The reason that homebuilders don’t do passive-solar homes isn’t that they don’t work (passive works great). Rather, it’s because passive solar requires an architect to orient a home along the sun’s ...

Setup costs for an off-grid home can range from $5,000 to $50,000 or more, depending on where you live and the systems you ...

As their kids grew and began leaving the nest, Cathy and Barry Stamp started thinking about two dreams they’d had about a new house: one, to get something very sustainable, and two, to create ...

The need for sustainable and healthy living has never been more urgent than it is today. With the rising threat of climate change and the growing concern for public health, we need to consider how we ...

Douglas Romines springs for triple-pane windows, wood fiber insulation, and solar power to build an efficient Hudson Valley home at a cost just slightly above traditional construction. Stones ...