Smart Building Choice for Fire Endurance
May 16, 2017
Insulated Concrete Blocks – The Smart Building Choice One of the most devastating forces of nature is fire, whether it’s a naturally occurring wildfire or otherwise. Fires can…
Texas School Cedars International Academy Goes Solar
September 29, 2016
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model…
Green Building Progress – April 2016
April 21, 2016
NATiVE Green Building Progress – “Works in Progress April 2016” Welcome to the first release of our Monthly Work In Progress Photo blog where we visually reveal our…
Tecolote Farm Goes Solar
January 13, 2016
Only a few miles down the road from the 30MW Webberville Solar Farm that energizes Austin, there is another groundbreaking solar farm, and this one produces clean energy as well as…
Zero Energy Home
December 29, 2015
It’s been a little over a year since we first met UT literature professors Liz and Alan. They had spent over 30 years living in the same house without doing much to it. The house was…
Solar Powered Farm – Milagro
September 24, 2015
Milagro Farm Goes Solar by Amy Olsen At 5:00 every morning we stumble out of bed, grab our headlamps and start our days. Kris heads out to the pasture to feed our chickens, we’ve lost…
Building a Net Zero House…Part Two
December 3, 2014
“It is amazing to see the lot without the house, quite weird, really. Are we brave or crazy? People are asking. We say brave.” – Liz We say brave too. Not everyone would decide to…
Going Net Zero
September 30, 2014
August 27, 2014 We arrived at Liz and Alan’s Tarrytown (a small Austin community located west of downtown) home early in the morning. The air was humid and the sun was already beginning…