A movement for public power has grown over the past several years, especially in Michigan, where advocates want more accountability from the state’s investor-owned utilities. As our experience in Lansing highlights, local and municipal is certainly more accountable, but not unequivocally better.
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Even doing some basic air sealing can save you a ton of money on your heating bill this winter.
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Industrialized and modular construction have a lot of potential to help fix the housing market. The value proposition is pretty simple. Realizing it, however, is a much heavier lift.
Read MoreOne of the weirder things I’ve come across in the past year– apart from Soviet Cookiemonster, our second-most viewed post
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Handbuilt’s newest client is energy building guru Kevin McNeely, who works on energy audits and architectural energy consulting services around the Midwest.
Read MoreGreen building is increasingly focusing less on hi-tech lightbulbs alone and more on a holistic building that is not only
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