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    Seek HERS Rating for Energy Efficiency Proof

    The only rating currently offering quantifiable and comparable insight for a homeowner/buyer regarding monthly utility costs is the Home Energy Rating System, most often referred to as the HERS Index. A HERS Rating number is […]

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    HERS is your MPG when seeking a Sustainable Home

    Sustainable Home by Envirohaven® Looking for a Sustainable Home? The HERS Rating Is Your MPG Rating- Part One of Two Why aren’t we demanding an MPG rating for our homes? A 2014 Neilson survey  found […]

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    Haven® Sustainable Home Wins Big At Builders Association Awards

    Thank you Builders Association of Northern Nevada (BANN) judges and Frame Architecture for honoring the Haven® sustainable home design in two categories of the 2015 BANN-er Awards; Best Custom Home Under $250,000 and Best Use of […]

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    Energy Vampires Suck For Sustainable Homes

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    Envirohaven Nominated for Sustainable Design as Leader in Sustainability

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    Off-Grid Rural Nevada Haven® Home; Inside Tour

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    Solar Thermal Systems: 2015 Energy Conservation Regulations

    We are all guilty of using a little too much hot water in our daily routines. While doing this, water heaters can be taken for granted. Regulations for energy conservation are continuously improving and changing […]

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  • Bucky happily dedicated his life to promoting better design in all areas of human life, hoping to inspire us to create 	a better future for our children to inhabit.

    The Wonderous Bucky Fuller; Father of the Geodesic Dome Home

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  • Feel the cool air coming out of our  summer earth tube.

    Life in a Sustainable Haven™ Home, Chapter 4: Earth tube cooled air

    After keeping comfortable with relatively little effort and cost all winter, we were a bit nervous about how comfortable our sustainable Haven™ home would be when temps heat up during the summer time, without mechanical air-conditioning […]

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    Off-Grid Building: The Haven™

    Last fall six of us piled into a truck and moved out into the desolate and rural desert mountains outside of Lovelock, Nevada to build Envirohaven’s first fully functioning off-grid Haven™. We spent a total […]

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    Small House Design in Reno, NV

    Have you noticed the increase in popularity of tiny house and small house design? Although this may seem like a recent trend, smaller low-cost homes utilizing efficiency in space and storage have a history. In the 1920’s […]

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    Solar Panel Basics: Creating a Low-Cost Sustainable Living Space

      There are two kinds of solar panel systems, solar thermal and photovoltaic (PV). Each use solar panels to allow us to use solar energy. Solar energy is when a photon is absorbed and then turned into […]

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  • StuccoMax being applied is not anything like traditional stucco.

    “Green” Stucco Alternative That Offers More With Less

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  • Winter window from our sustainable Haven™ Home

    Life in a Sustainable Haven™ Home, Chapter 3: More Warmth, More Comfort, More Simply With Less $$

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  • Downstairs bath has abundant storage

    Life In A Sustainable Haven™: Chapter 2, Creative Storage

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  • Section plan of not so Small House

    5 Things About The Haven™ and Tiny Houses

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  • Clint Borchard and Greg Bischoff with Ariana Bennett on the set of Face The State.

    Envirohaven Sustainable Home on KTVN On Face The State

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  • Relaxing in my sustainable Haven™  home

    Life In A Sustainable Haven™ Home, Chapter 1: Meet The Haven™

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  • Blower door test in progress.

    8 Reasons We All Want Air Tight Homes

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  • The plan by the Southern Nevada Water Authority to take water from eastern Nevada has met fierce opposition from rural residents, ranchers, American Indian tribes and conservationists in the area. (Henry Brean/Las Vegas Review-Journal File Photo)

    War Declared for Water

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  • Sustainable solid Bamboo floor

    Bamboo that is Renewable, Durable and Affordable.

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    Up to $1,200 Reward for Turning in the Culprits

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  • Heat Tech GMI 26 PS Pellet Stove with custom mantel by Mikey Burke Metal Works, Reno

    Pellet Stove FAQ’s: Reduce, Recycle and Enjoy!

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  • Windows are installed exactly the same as in any other conventional home.

    Wise Window Shopping Provides More For Less

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  • Holistically Sustainable Haven™

    Reno News and Review helps to educate the public about Envirohaven™

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  • Galaxy-Spiral: Golden Ratio in Nature

    Part 2 of 2: The question of “Why the Golden Ratio is important?” is answered. by Dailey Haren

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    Designing with Triangles: Envirohaven™ and the Golden Ratio by Dailey Haren

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    Envirohaven™ U.S. Utility Patent Issued for our Geodesic Hybrid Sustainable Home

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    Reno Envirohaven™ Model Panel Assembly Complete

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    Reno Envirohaven™ Assembly Begins

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    Waterproofing Pre-Treatment

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    Quick and Easy, Reno Model Posts are UP!

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    Under-slab and Stem-wall Insulation; Small Investment for Big Savings

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    Earth-Air Heat Exchange System Key In The Haven’s Passive Energy Design

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    Cut Outdoor Water Use by Half with Grey Water Recycling

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    Think the Haven is a Dome? 7 Reasons to Think Again

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    Why Live Off-Grid?

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    Envirohaven™ uses Magnesium Oxide Board

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    Do-It-Yourself ; Holistically Sustainable Green Building

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    The Haven Concrete Model Foundation Taking Shape!

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    Concrete Foundation Option for Green Building

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    Simplified Building Permit Process for Off-Grid Homes

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    Water Wise: Grey Water Recycling for Eco-Homes

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  • Off-the-grid home that was inexpensive to build and very expensive to maintain

    5 Cash Saving Considerations for Purchasing Off Grid Property

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    Location, Location, Location: 5 Considerations for Locating Your Off-Grid Home

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    Natural Hazards: Rectangular Homes and Geodesic Domes

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    Our New Brochure

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    Renewable Energy and Federal and State Energy Tax Credit Information

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  • NEW SUN

    We’re in hot water with Sunvelope Solar

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    Innovative Sustainable Features

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    What The Reno Gazette Journal Has To Say

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    UNR and Envirohaven™

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    Reno Welcomes Envirohaven™

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  • Frame Architecture
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  • Jet Products
  • Made In The Shade
  • NCET
  • NVision Glass
  • Osborne and Dermody
  • Renew Bamboo
  • Suncrest Builders
  • Sunrise Sustainable Resources Group
  • Sunvelope
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