Green Homes News

Just realized I used UC3B, which says for above ground, as my baseplate. Should I go back and use a green treated that is designed or designated for ground contact?

Hello, I'm working on the details for my insulated roof retrofit. I've mostly completed the design and the one thing I've got a bit hung-up on was the underlayment portions…

update: Our trusses will be recessed by way of a inner ledge formed into the stem wall.Our contractor has quoted Rockwool for our wall insulation with the exception of the…

Location: Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St, Cambridge

What are possible intersections between Harvard residential life and climate & sustainability? These conversations, organized by the Dean of Students Office, are small-group dinners to engage informally with climate practitioners. Topic for April 9: Climate Justice and Decolonial Pedagogies, with Mauro Morabito, former Head of Mission for the International Committee of the Red Cross and climate education facilitator.

Reserved to Winthrop House affiliates.

Visit the...

Read more about Winthrop Climate Conversation Dinner

Location: CGIS South Bldg, Rm S030, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge

The CMES Reframing Conflict: Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria in Context series presents:

Nisrin Elamin
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Toronto

In the agricultural Gezira region of central Sudan, the term khalla means open land or expanse and refers to communal land that is partly used for grazing animals or rain-fed farming; what is often referred to as ‘the commons.’ Beginning with the provocation that the khalla is “running away from us” due to large-scale land investments and agribusiness practices, this talk takes up...

Read more about "The khalla is running away from us”: Gulf Capital, Deficient Deserts and Property-Making in Central Sudan

Location: Mignone Center for Career Success, 54 Dunster St, Cambridge

Join us on April 9th, to hear from Nisha Desai, MBA ’97, Founder & CEO of Intention, Jock Gilchrist, Vice President of Sustainability at JPMorgan Chase, and Vid Mićević, Investor at Collaborative Fund, reflect on their career, education, and current work in climate and sustainability finance and investment.... Read more about Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series: Careers in Climate and Sustainability Finance and Investment

Building in CT, have completed HVAC design docs from Energy Vanguard. Quotes we got based on floorplan and Manual J only ran from 35-50K a few months back. Updated quotes…

We are going to be residing a room on the 2nd floor and reinstalling the windows there.  I'm trying to figure out how to do the metal flashing for the…

Greetings, have read many posts and am thankful for all of the helpful info regarding, mostly, heat pumps.Am looking to install a split system in my parents' 2 story home,…

Location: Virtual

Decision making in support of sustainability is influenced by many factors, but there is no doubt that knowledge is necessary for the effective pursuit of sustainability. Too often, however, that knowledge has been too little, too late, or even worse, not helpful at all. This virtual seminar will explore strategies for building a robust capacity to link knowledge with action that ensures knowledge is both useable and used.

The seminar will feature: Connie Nshemereirwe (Director of the...

Read more about Capacity to link knowledge with action for sustainability

I currently have half of my kitchen ceiling removed to sister up joists of a sagging floor. My kitchen is a bump out in a two-story home. The attic of…

Preparing to begin a "pop the top" renovation. Existing house will be reduced to exterior brick and block walls and existing subfloor system over existing basement. New interior first floor wall…

Hey GBA. I'm working on a project in CZ 5A in a moderate to heavy termite area and looking at solutions for insulating a raft slab. 1. I'm planning on…

Location: Sever 213, 25 Harvard Yard, Cambridge

The Environmental Action Coalition is hosting an exciting career event next Tuesday, April 8, at 6pm with RMI.

RMI focuses specifically on market-driven clean energy work, which is great for those of you who are Econ majors/aspiring finance bros, those who are feeling somewhat disillusioned by recent changes in government, or those who just want to discuss next steps with climate policy.

RMI works with governments (including the White House), consulting firms, industry giants, tech companies, NGOs, etc...to drive influential changes both in the public and private sectors....

Read more about Climate Career Event with RMI and IOP

Looks like I'm unfortunate enough to have been a victim of a bad attic install gone wrong.  My roof was open-cell sprayed approximately 10 years ago. Seems that part of the…

Finishing basement and need to run strapping perpendicular to the floor joists above to hang the drywall for the ceiling. The issue I have is I need a three inch clearance…

We needed to insulate in the fall before we had completed electrical in order to not lose the winter as building time on our cottage project. Since the insulation has…

My wife and I moved into a 1955 cape that I am looking to renovate bit by bit, room by room in most cases- as budget allows and all work…

Location: WCC 1019, Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

Join the Harvard Human Rights Journal and the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic for a talk by Dr. Daniel Gustafson, Special Representative of the Director-General at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), former Deputy Director-General of the Organization, on “Ensuring the Right to Food in the Face of Climate Change: The Role of UN FAO.”

The talk addresses the interrelations between climate change and global hunger from the perspective of the UN FAO, highlighting how climate change exacerbates food insecurity and hinders the full realization of the right to...

Read more about Ensuring the Right to Food in the Face of Climate Change: The Role of UN FAO

We’re working on a few tight-envelope homes with unvented roof assemblies and closed-cell spray foam, and I’m curious what MERV rating you typically go with for furnace filters in these…