Lakeside Green Cottage

Posted on January 11, 2010 by FrankBaker

Last June our 100 year old seasonal cottage in Lakeside, Ohio www.lakesideohio.com took a direct hit from a 100 year old maple tree during a storm that came across Lake Erie. We loved the funky old cottage but we knew from the outset that repair versus replacement would be the major decision in front of [...]

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Wrong Turn Taken: Embodied Energy & LCA

Posted on July 17, 2009 by FrankBaker

Have you seen the claims of cellulose insulating materials to be the “Greenest of the Green”? Embodied Energy is used as a basis for the claim. Cellulose has many noteworthey Green attributes, but if you look to the footnotes on the embodied energy tables for insulating materials you will see that the numbers include the “caloric [...]

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Life Cycle Analysis

Posted on June 9, 2009 by FrankBaker

Download the complete INSULSPAN, BASF Life Cycle Analysis – LCA, of Structural Insulated Panels.

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