The Green Building Pyramid
Green Building Pyramid The Green Building Pyramid lays out very clearly how to set up your priorities so that you can end up with a home that is truly energy …
Videos of Award-Winning Green Homes Built by BPC Green Builders
Videos of Award Winning Projects from BPC Green Builders 2014 Zero Energy Challenge Award 2013 Zero Energy Challenge Award 2012 Zero Energy Challenge Award 2010 Zero Energy Challenge Award
BPC Green Builders Publishes New Edition of its Online Glossary of Green Building Terms for Consumers
BPC Believes the New Edition to be the Most Comprehensive Green Building Term Glossary Online. BPC Green Builders is pleased to announce it has just posted online its newest and …
Plastics: NPR Interactive – What’s Usually Recyclable & What’s Not
The typical American creates over 250 pounds of plastic waste each year! Not surprising, much of this waste starts out as packaging. What happens to all our plastic waste and …
BPC Green Builders Featured in Special Coastal Issue as the “Expert Who Can Help – Going Green can Start at Home”
Connecticut’s Gold Coast Publisher, Moffly Media, features BPC Green Builders in “Ways To Live The Good Life in Fairfield County”. The 2019 inaugural list of 203 recognizes Fairfield County’s “Gold …
BPC’s Mike Trolle Selected as Green Building Expert for Panel Discussion on Healthy Homes: Green and Sustainable Solutions
The event was hosted by Gault Energy & Home Solutions in their Westport, Connecticut showroom. On June 26, 2019, BPC Green Builder’s co founder and principle, Mike Trolle, was one of 3 …
Why it’s time to start saying Climate Crisis instead of Climate Change
Photo of the Thomas Wildfire in California in 2017 Climate Change is what is happening. But what we have now is a Climate Crisis. Words matter and “Climate Change” …
Green Homes: A Way to Fight Climate Change
We’re Close to the Tipping Point A recent article in Fine Homebuilding magazine that discusses climate change and home building starts with this challenge to the building industry: “Faced with …
CNN Article posted on Earth Day: We’re losing the war on climate change
As CNN’s analysis by John D. Sutter from Monday, April 22, 2019, and titled “We’re losing the war on climate change” leads off: “(CNN) For years now, people like environmentalist …
What is Double Wall Construction?
Double wall construction is a common green building method and best practice for building walls that are part of the home’s thermal envelope. Your home’s thermal envelope is arguably the …
Home Indoor Air Quality, Indoor Air Pollution, Your Health, and Green Homes
Your home’s Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) refers to the amount of indoor air pollutants within your home, which impacts the health and comfort of those living there. One of …
NOAA Spring Flood Outlook for US and BPC Service Area
According to the news release on the US Department of Commerce’s NOAA website Spring Outlook: Historic, widespread flooding to continue through May “Nearly two-thirds of the Lower 48 states face …
