climate change Archives - Energy Vanguard https://www.energyvanguard.com/tag/climate-change/ Building science knowledge, HVAC design, & fun Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:11:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Lloyd Alter Is Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/lloyd-alter-explores-living-the-15-degree-lifestyle/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/lloyd-alter-explores-living-the-15-degree-lifestyle/#view_comments Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:44:56 +0000 https://www.energyvanguard.com/?p=6882 Lloyd Alter, architect and prolific blogger at Treehugger, has a new book.  Titled Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle,* the book is an exploration of what it takes to live within a pretty strict carbon budget. That means tracking the carbon…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/lloyd-alter-explores-living-the-15-degree-lifestyle/feed/ 17 Climate Zones Are Getting Warmer (Mostly) https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/climate-zones-are-getting-warmer-mostly/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/climate-zones-are-getting-warmer-mostly/#view_comments Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:51:12 +0000 https://www.energyvanguard.com/?p=6674 Climate zones for energy code purposes are defined in the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC).  Every three years, that code gets updated.  The map that was in the last version of the IECC, which came out in 2018, had been…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/climate-zones-are-getting-warmer-mostly/feed/ 27 The #1 Reason to Have an All-Electric Home https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/1-reason-have-all-electric-home/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/1-reason-have-all-electric-home/#view_comments Tue, 01 Oct 2019 11:30:09 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=the-1-reason-to-have-an-all-electric-home Maybe you’ve heard the rumblings coming out of the environmental and building science crowd.  Maybe not.  But it’s getting louder lately.  The rumbling I’m alluding to is the move to switch from natural gas to electricity as the energy carrier…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/1-reason-have-all-electric-home/feed/ 97 A Birthday, a Report, and a Prize https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/birthday-report-and-prize/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/birthday-report-and-prize/#view_comments Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:57:45 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=a-birthday-a-report-and-a-prize Happy birthday to Willis Carrier!  He invented modern air conditioning and changed the world.  In his quest for a device to control humidity in the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing & Publishing Company in Brooklyn, New York, he invented a device that changed…

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