This story appeared first in WFAE reporter David Boraks' weekly newsletter. Subscribe today to get Climate News straight to your email inbox each week. The North Carolina Home Builders Association so ...

Concern for the environment is growing among U.S. households, and so are energy costs. In response, more home builders and remodelers are adopting green building practices to reduce utility bills and ...

The money, from the Building Better Homes– Zero Emission Homes for Healthier Communities program incentivizes the design, construction and marketing of new clean and resilient single-family homes and ...

On Long Island, Turett designed and built his house to Passive House standards, using it to test systems, materials, and ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. When The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was passed in 2022 ...

Smart Thermostats Set Too Aggressively Smart thermostats promise to learn your habits and save energy automatically. However, ...

Baltimore Gas and Electric plans to offer incentives to builders and contractors of new homes who meet new federal energy efficiency standards. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week ...

A Fidelity National Financial subsidiary, found that more than 50% of Americans would consider living in a tiny home. Because of their size, tiny homes require much fewer materials to build but also ...

Sitting in his cool front room in Worcester Park, a suburb of sprawling south London, John Butler explains how it used to ...

Before installing an energy-efficient water heater, these factors will prevent you from spending too much money and buying a ...

Zero Energy Homes — a startup looking to show how modular construction combined with “net zero energy” principles can be priced for the affordable housing market — is almost finished building its ...

Construction continues at Holly Farms, a "zero energy" community constructed in Parkville by Beazer Homes. The homes, which meet U.S. Department of Energy standards will comply with Maryland's current ...