Passive Acceptance
Virtually unknown in the United States, Passive Houses are starting to make a big impression with their small footprints.
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In the famously rainy city of Portland, Oregon, everyone knows that a leaky house is a recipe for disaster. But Portland-based designer Miloš Jovanović isn’t worried so much about water seepage as the more insidious and common leakage of air from a poorly sealed building, which hinders indoor climate control and wastes massive amounts of energy.
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Jacob Gordon
Jacob Gordon is a Nashville–based writer and Treehugger contributor who, with his fiancee, is at the end of a (seemingly endless) green rehab of a 1900-era southern Victorian.
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