Home Efficiency for Savings & Comfort

The basics are no longer basic, as building science includes everything from retrofitting to improve thermal gain & loss, moisture control, indoor air quality, to off-gassing, supply chain carbon footprint, materials recycling and even the gold standard of PHIUS House Alliance. Learn what you can do to affordably make your home more comfortable & healthier.

• Moderator: Alan Benoit, AIA — Sustainable Design
• Brad Long — Efficiency Vermont
• Melanie Paskevich — HEAT Squad
• Rick Shappy — HEAT Squad Energy Auditor
• Stephanie Moffett-Hynds – Northshire Window Dressers
• Steve Berry – 1786 Meeting House

Heating & Cooling With Heat Pumps

This panel of experts for their important discussion of the pros & cons of both ground- and air-source heat pumps, domestic hot water, and the latest new technologies, especially valuable as heating oil and propane prices continue to skyrocket.

• Moderator: Joanne Coons — HVCC TEC-SMART Faculty
• Matthew Desmarais — Energy Catalyst
• Robert Jensen — Agreenability
• Kevin Moravec — Moravec Geothermal

Rehab an Historic Farmhouse

The Peters-Locrow farmhouse in Clifton Park, NY was built in the 1830s and had been vacant for a decade. It had holes in the roof, water in the basement and a menagerie of animals living inside. Paul & Joanne Coons discuss rehabbing this farmhouse using energy conserving and green building practices while maintaining its historical integrity.

Living Off-Grid

Heat Pump Selection

Composting Toilets for People

General Information
Energiesprong – Whole House Refurbishment
Green Energy Times – a catalyst for educational leadership
Renewable Energy Vermont
US Department of Energy – Building Technologies
U.S. Green Building Council – LEED
Vermont Green Building Network
Vermont Natural Resources Council
World Green Building Council – What is Green Building?

Agreenability — Robert Jensen; [email protected]
BCSWA — Paula Kamperman; [email protected]
BTF Residential Designs — Gwendolen St. Sauveur, EI LEED GA; [email protected]
Calabrese Architects — Elizabeth Freeman Calabrese, AIA; [email protected]
Efficiency VT — Brian Just; [email protected]
Efficiency VT — Brad Long; [email protected]
Efficiency VT — Li Ling Young; [email protected]
Energy Catalyst — Matthew Desmarais; [email protected]
Escher Design — Bob Escher, AIA; [email protected]