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The 6 Steps - just plain good advice.

It Starts at Home

This is awesome, first-person account of a family's carbon diet - a continual energy efficiency work-out... from National Geographic no less. I can't wait to learn how to use the infrared camera!

Personal note: it is hard to do the right thing, but as we become more aware, design plays a major part in not just reducing "vampire" loads, but reducing any excess usage of electricity.

The Suburbs Are a 'Changin'

Ever since I heard Ellen Dunham-Jones, GA Tech Architecture Professor, speak at Greenprints (Southface's big Green Building conference that I worked registration), a topic that I find fascinating has re-surfaced - here she is, along with her co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia (a book I want to read soon) in an article along with some other folks, "101 Uses for a Deserted Mall."

After she finished speaking, I went up and asked her where is the best place to move since her book and talk were about spots in America where the suburbs are being over-hauled and she replied, "Denver" (because they are attracting 20 somethings like me). At this point I'm planning a trip to Denver and then Portland to figure out where I should live. I'm looking into energy auditing work with a Low-Income Weatherization Program. All this goes down early May (my birthday is May 3!). Southface has asked me to stay for a month (three weeks left) and continue LEED for Homes and HERS work.

P.S. I take my LEED AP exam on April 13th.