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A Sawyer’s Thanksgiving: In Gratitude for ERs, Post-hole Diggers and Stupid Luck
Dear Net Zero Enthusiasts: I must be the most unreliable blogger in all of Creation anyway, but today you might as well know why it’s been an unusually long stretch since you’ve heard from me. Let’s just put it this way—there are several immutable commandments woven...
Happy (Belated) Birthday, Oregon!
Yeah, I KNOW already!!!! It’s almost a whole frickin’ month since February 14. The dog ate my Blogpost alright? Get over it (we don’t even have a dog)! As underwhelming as this post may seem, given the date, Happy Oregon’s 162nd Birthday anyway! I just wanted you...
Our Epiphany: And The Year of Excavation
When the song of the angels is stilled,When the star in the sky is gone,When the kings and princes are home,When the shepherds are back with their flock,The work of Christmas begins:To find the lost,To heal the broken,To feed the hungry,To release the prisoner,To...
R-Value: The Capacity to Resist
R-val·ue: noun The capacity of an insulating material to resist heat flow. The higher the...
Passive House In Progress Extravaganza
Hey Net-Zerofites! We had a fabulous gathering and Net-Zero-In-Progress Tour at 928 Cedar, Sunday...
The Day of Walls: Our Net Zero Sukkah
The raising of walls at 928 NW Cedar coincided with the Jewish festival of Sukkot, referred to in...
The Ground Floor of Our Passive House
Our house will be Passive House Certified. Not to be confused with a passive solar home, the term...
Breaking Ground
The morning of September 15, the excavating machine arrived, the champagne was poured. We paused...
Demolition Derby
To get our Net-Zero project going, 20 of us--friends and family, our son, daughter and partners...
Our Net-Zero Life: An Introduction
To date, I have lived 66 years and 39 days, most of them in the American West. I woke up this...
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