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Old Way of Seeing: March 2015
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Old Way of Seeing. Forest Pearson's Links, References and Projects. Monday, March 30, 2015. Come see the Yukon's Second LEED Registered Home. Come see our little SuperGreen laneway home - it's nearly finished! This is arguably* the most energy efficent home in the Yukon, scoring an EnerGuide rating of 89! The home is registred as a LEED Canada for Homes project and really is a model of sustainable housing in Whitehorse. Posted by Forest Pearson. Sunday, March 15, 2015. Heating people, not air. It was a p...
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Old Way of Seeing: April 2012
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Old Way of Seeing. Forest Pearson's Links, References and Projects. Monday, April 16, 2012. One Year in a SuperGreen Home. We've now got a whole year's worth of energy usage data from the SuperGreen duplex. And the results confirm what the earlier trends showed. This home is using even less energy than predicted, about 30% less! SuperGreen Energy Usage Versus a Conventional Home. Posted by Forest Pearson. Sunday, April 1, 2012. Yukon's Reservoir Levels - April Update. I've been skipping a bit of winter a...
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Old Way of Seeing: April 2013
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Old Way of Seeing. Forest Pearson's Links, References and Projects. Monday, April 1, 2013. Why Whitehorse Sucks Reason #8* - Sprawl. My brother recently moved to the far side of Riverdale. I was biking over there the other night from my house downtown, and I was thinking " My god, this is a far. Why did he have to move so far away? A majority of our tourism time in Portland was all contained in this 3.2 km circle. I can't believe how much of the community was in such a compact area - no wonder Po...Geolo...
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Old Way of Seeing: This heat pump Goes Up to Eleven
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Old Way of Seeing. Forest Pearson's Links, References and Projects. Thursday, April 2, 2015. This heat pump Goes Up to Eleven. EnergyGuide label on the mini-split heat pump installed to heat our new Super GreenHome. It goes up to eleven. Note that the efficiency scale bar on the bottom of the tag only goes up to 10.2. This is a Fujitsu Extra Low-Temperature Heating. Mini-split air-to-air heat pump. The manufacture claims it operates down to -26. More pictures to come. Posted by Forest Pearson. 2006 to 20...
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Old Way of Seeing: May 2012
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Old Way of Seeing. Forest Pearson's Links, References and Projects. Friday, May 4, 2012. LEED Gold - Yukon's First LEED Canada Certified Homes. Well, after a year of waiting, we finally got our LEED. Canada for Homes Certification for the SuperGreen Duplex we built at 38 and 40 Nijmegan Road. As we talked about before, this is the first LEED. Certified home in the Yukon, and the second LEED. And I think because this was a Yukon first, they were extra diligent. Posted by Forest Pearson. US Crude Oil Expor...
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Old Way of Seeing: August 2014
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Old Way of Seeing. Forest Pearson's Links, References and Projects. Tuesday, August 26, 2014. Lots and lots of Sprayfoam. Yesterday they started sprayfoaming our little laneway house. Although sprayfoam is often used in certain applications as part of house construction, the unusual thing about this house is we are using a whopping 7.5" of closed-cell sprayfoam, installed on the outside of the building. This acts as a big blanket that completely envelops the house. Green Building Advisor. What the leader...
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Old Way of Seeing: April 2014
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Old Way of Seeing. Forest Pearson's Links, References and Projects. Friday, April 4, 2014. Planning the Yukon's Most Energy Efficient Home. 704B Wood Street is a privately developed laneway house project. The project principals are based on bringing truly sustainable housing to the community. The building is generally a "Craftsman" style home that draws upon architectural elements of older homes and outbuildings in the neighborhood. It is also shares the property with the Hulland House. To build a truly ...
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Old Way of Seeing: May 2014
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Old Way of Seeing. Forest Pearson's Links, References and Projects. Friday, May 23, 2014. We've just finished the foundation and basement of our little SuperGreen Laneway house. This includes a "super-insulated" basement. Why do that you might ask? Additional perimeter R25 insulation on Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) basement ready for backfill. The challenge however with building a small. So why do we heap the insulation so high in the ceiling (i.e. R100 or more). Concrete basement. The standard ICF ...