About
Jim Gunshinan is the editor of Home Energy, the magazine of sustainable home building and renovation.
Website: http://homeenergy.org
All Contributions by Jim:
Energy Geeks Converge at ACEEE's Boot Camp
Every two years the staff of the magazine I edit, Home Energy, is invited down to the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California, to publish a daily newsletter for the biennial ACEEE Summer Study of Energy Efficiency in Buildings.
Post on Aug 23, 2012
How To Wash That Energy Waste Right Out of Your Hair
For an individual, switching to a two-in-one shampoo and conditioner could save more than 730 gallons of water a year and save about $4 in energy costs.
Post on Dec 15, 2011
More Evidence that the Stimulus Bill is Working
The Bay Area and our neighbor to the north, Portland, Oregon, have had a friendly competition over which of us is the greenest state.
Post on Mar 25, 2011
Community Action Agencies Continue to Fight for Low-Income Families
Government works when it is directed towards helping its citizens live healthy and productive lives.
Post on Mar 11, 2011
Mobile Homes You Wouldn't Consider Mobile
What's better than keeping one 100-year-old house out of the landfill? Keeping two 100-year-old houses out of the landfill.
Post on Feb 25, 2011
A New Energy Label Promotes Wind Power
Soon you’ll be able to go to a store and buy a product you know was made from pure, clean wind energy.
Post on Feb 11, 2011
Cool Roofs
As global average temperature increases, the Arctic becomes warmer, the snow melts, and seawater takes its place. Snow is a great reflector of invisible light; seawater isn’t.
Post on Jan 28, 2011
Goodbye to the Lightbulb We All Know and Love
What’s killing the familiar bulb is an act of Congress that mandated efficiency standards that incandescents cannot meet.
Post on Jan 14, 2011
Prediction Vs. Performance: Facing Energy Challenges
Henry Gifford, a mechanical systems designer and principal at Gifford Fuel Saving, Inc. in New York City, is suing the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
Post on Dec 10, 2010
Keeping Score
I have a dream that someday homeowners across the land will feel about their houses and apartments the same way people of my generation felt about their first car. They will all know the basic nomenclature—kilowatt-hours and/or Btu per square foot per year. Or something like that.
Post on Nov 12, 2010
Leslie Gets Weatherized–You Can Too!
An Associate Editor at Home Energy Magazine has her home weatherized for free via PG&E's CARE and Energy Partners Programs.
Post on Oct 29, 2010
Home Energy Efficiency is All About Location, Location, Location
While government tax incentives and rebates are important, it is up to local governments, retailers, and large and small home performance companies to sell energy efficiency. And every location and every homeowner is different, with different values and needs.
Post on Oct 15, 2010
From End to End on the Green Home Spectrum
This week I stopped by West Coast Green taking place at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. It's an interactive conference focusing on innovation for the built environment.
Post on Oct 01, 2010
Berkeley Economist on Taking Economics Seriously In U.S. Energy Policy
"We face a series of energy challenges," says economist, Severin Borenstein of the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley. Read more on the QUEST Community Science Blog.
Post on Sep 03, 2010
Is the Climate Right for Efficiency in China?
Notes from Asilomar: The 15th Biannual Summer Study, Energy Use In Buildings, of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (August 15–20, 2010).
Post on Aug 20, 2010
Sunday Plenary – Efficiency is the Centerpiece: Where are We Going?
Notes from Asilomar: The 15th Biannual Summer Study, Energy Use In Buildings, of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (August 15–20, 2010).
Post on Aug 18, 2010
Cats and Dogs Forming Acronyms (and furthering green building in California)
It started in Santa Clara County, then spread to Marin, and now its everywhere in California; builders, developers, city governments, and environmentalists, all getting along and creating green building standards together. It's the new PC – Policy Collaboration.
Post on Aug 06, 2010
Legalize Marijuana–Save Our Houses?
Are high energy use and a rotting housing stock in the North more reasons to legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana for anyone?
Post on Jul 23, 2010
Slowing Down PACE
The Property Assessed Clean Energy Program (PACE) is being blocked for the time being by, of all things, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, holders of about half of the home mortgages in the country and a major player in the financial crisis that we are still recovering from.
Post on Jul 09, 2010
California On the Green Cutting Edge Again
The eyes of the nation are once again upon California for making bold steps in the water efficiency, energy efficiency, and global climate change arenas.
Post on Jun 25, 2010
