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 …
Utility Scale Good Green News: Better Batteries and Increased Renewable Energy Can Save Consumers Money
Even Utilities are starting to go green and that’s good for everyone. According to a recent article in Green Building Advisor called Big Batteries, Not New Power Plants, since 2014 …
First Confirmed Mammal Extinction Cause by Climate Change
Rising Sea-levels, Flooding and More Extreme Storms Caused by Climate Change and Failure to Mitigate Problems Blamed Scientific American reported on March 21, 2019, that the Australian government announced the …
Greenland’s Ice Loss 2002 – 2016
The mass of the Greenland ice sheet has rapidly declined in the last several years due to surface melting and iceberg calving. Research based on observations from the NASA/German Aerospace …
What Happens in the Arctic, Doesn’t Stay in the Arctic
Photo by Kristoffer Brink Jonsson from Pexels Temperatures in the Arctic are rising faster than other places on earth. But as explained in an article called “The Arctic Is Changing. …
BPC Green Builders Win’s 2019 Top Green Business Award from TownVibe Media
/wp-content/uploads/TownVibe-Green-Awards-logo.jpg On March 12, 2019, BPC Green Builders was honored for significantly incorporating green practices into their culture and operations at TownVibe’s Sixth Annual Green Awards’ ceremony in Ridgefield, CT. …
