Passive Solar

Blue House Is Passive Green (Seattle, USA) Hurley’s first task was to dispose of the existing 550 square feet. The architectural salvage company Second Use cherry-picked the old ...more

Solar Boilers For Hot Water (Israel) Yissar, an engineer, and entrepreneur, soon opened the first company selling such devices, the Neryah Company, in 1953. The device soon became so ...more

Earth Sheltered Greenhouse (Idaho, USA) I tried that and it did work. I found other "keepers," too, like apples and squash, onions and garlic. The cook at my favorite restaurant ...more

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ArchiPhysics Passive Solar Software (Free)

This program was written to show how different variables affect the indoor temperature of a building.

Awnshade

from Florida Solar Energy Center

Build It Solar

This website provides a selection of references and analysis tools for solar design - books, websites, publications and information on solar ...more

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Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies

Part of the larger education of the Oberlin community aimed to promote the practical skills and analytic abilities necessary to reweave the human ...more

Adobe House in Winter Video

This snippet is an exerpt of a for-sale video by Andrey Shadrov. It is warm, comfortable and ecological to live in adobe house, even in winter, - ...more

Alaska Bioshelter Solar Greenhouse Video (USA)

This guy built, out of the side of an Alaska mountain, a water recycling, self-sustaining shelter. Out of some fairly simple stuff. The goal was ...more

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