Smart Home
How to Cut Your Impact (and Your Bills) as a Homeowner
Renewable energy and reduced carbon impact often come with a stigma of being expensive. And this reputation was well-deserved for a time. But ...
Sustainable Tech
How Big Can You Make a Passive House?
Recently I’ve talked about my new net zero home I’m building, but not all net zero buildings have to be homes or houses. ...
Sustainable Tech
My Biggest Regret Building a Net Zero Home
There are a lot of different paths you can take to get to a net-zero home. Everything from passive homes to earthships to ...
Electrify Everything
4 Year Update – Are Solar Panels for Home Still Worth It?
It’s been almost 4 years since I had solar panels installed on my house, which is located in Massachusetts. In general they’ve been ...
Electrify Everything
How a Smart Home Electric Panel Fixed My Tesla Powerwall
I had my Tesla Powerwall installed near the end of 2020 and it’s been working well so far. The Tesla Gateway has been ...
Smart Home
Best Smart Home Tech 2020 for Safety, Security, and Health
If you're into sustainability, EVs, and renewable energy, there are some really great smart home and home automation options available today that can ...
Smart Home
My ultimate smart home tour – why is it so complicated?
Smart homes offer so much potential for security, energy savings, and convenience, but why ... why do they have to be so complicated? ...
Sustainable Tech
The power of machine learning in your smart home – monitoring your EV, solar, and energy use
What if you could tap into the power of machine learning to help you monitor your energy use? To find out where ...
Smart Home
Top 10 home automation ideas – Ultimate smart home tour
It can be hard to know where to start with smart home improvements, so I thought I'd do a tour of my smart ...
Smart Home
4 years living with a smart thermostat – Ecobee review
After living with an Ecobee smart thermostat for the past 4 years I’ve gotten to know the good … and bad … of ...
