zBlog http://z-home.org/blog The ongoing story of zHome, as it happens Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:23:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 z-home/bloghttp://feedburner.google.com KIRO 97.3 FM does zHome/WaterSense feature story by Tim Haeck http://z-home.org/blog/2012/02/kiro-97-3-fm-does-zhomewatersense-feature-story-by-tim-haeck/ http://z-home.org/blog/2012/02/kiro-97-3-fm-does-zhomewatersense-feature-story-by-tim-haeck/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:23:31 +0000 Brad Liljequist http://z-home.org/blog/?p=1888

Tim Haeck, reporter for KIRO FM, did a very interesting feature story on zHome.  zHome recently became the first community of WaterSense certified homes in the United States, and this is a big part of his story.  Check it out!

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I’m a little embarrassed to be posting these links right now – I’ve been a contributing blogger for Dwell magazine online since September of last year, and posting a couple of times a month about zHome.  Chalk it up to just too much going on.  I have been putting a fair amount of work into them so I think you’ll find them of interest…if you’re a zHome blog follower already…

First Dwell blog post.

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]]> http://z-home.org/blog/2012/01/dwell-zhome-post-4-stormwater-management/feed/ 0 Dwell magazine blog five – ground source heat pump and solar panels http://z-home.org/blog/2012/01/dwell-magazine-post-5-ground-source-heat-pump-and-solar-panels/ http://z-home.org/blog/2012/01/dwell-magazine-post-5-ground-source-heat-pump-and-solar-panels/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:56:13 +0000 Brad Liljequist http://z-home.org/blog/?p=1803 Here’s my slideshow/blog on Dwell online about the ins and outs of our two most sophisticated technologies – the ground source heat pump and solar panels.

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]]> http://z-home.org/blog/2012/01/dwell-magazine-blog-seven-part-two-of-the-zhome-backstory/feed/ 0 Dwell zHome blog eight – part three of the zHome backstory http://z-home.org/blog/2012/01/dwell-zhome-blog-eight-part-three-of-the-zhome-backstory/ http://z-home.org/blog/2012/01/dwell-zhome-blog-eight-part-three-of-the-zhome-backstory/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:53:08 +0000 Brad Liljequist http://z-home.org/blog/?p=1821 The last installment.  But that’s just for the backstory – there’s two more Dwell blogs to come, including one by Patti Southard of King County GreenTools about green materials on the project.

]]> http://z-home.org/blog/2012/01/dwell-zhome-blog-eight-part-three-of-the-zhome-backstory/feed/ 0 zHome on Steve Scher’s Weekday http://z-home.org/blog/2011/11/zhome-on-steve-schers-weekday/ http://z-home.org/blog/2011/11/zhome-on-steve-schers-weekday/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:47:25 +0000 Brad Liljequist http://z-home.org/blog/?p=1841 As a follow up to Steve’s onsite tour interview, he invited me onto the program along with Aaron Fairchild of Green Canopy Homes and Katrina Morgan of Fermata Consulting.  It was a lot of fun, but I think I got things a bit off track…I just feel so strongly that we have to start treating our dependence of fossil fuels with the same resource level that we put into our military…

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