Can this home be greened?
Natural Home Magazine periodically looks at existing homes to determine how their energy performance can be improved. In this issue, Mary Kraus helped analyze and make recommendations for a home in Granby, Massachusetts.
Common Sense Approaches to Common House Design
Cohousing e-magazine asked Laura Fitch to use her expertise to answer a series of questions they asked about common house design.
Ecologically Sustainable Design for Cohousing – Part I
Mary Kraus provides a clear summary of the many ways cohousing can be sustainable in its development strategies and construction detailing, and always with a mind towards meeting your budget.
Living Green In Cohousing – Part II
In her second article on sustainability in cohousing, Mary Kraus focuses on how you can continue to reduce your ecological footprint once you’ve moved in to your community.
Creating my own “net-zero energy” home
It’s not enough to talk-the-talk, Mary Kraus is walking-the-walk in her own home retrofit. By describing how she is transforming her own home to one that is net-zero energy, she hopes to use her home as a tool for learning and a model to help her clients understand the process required to transform their own homes.
How Working Together Can Bring Us Together, Participatory Design as a Key to Sustainable Society
Green design is not enough; we need to learn to live together in a socially sustainable way. Mary Kraus explains how this begins with the very process of how we design together with our clients.
The Annual Retreat is here!
In a delightful book of “stories from the walkways of cohousing”, Laura Fitch tells one of the tales of her home community, Pioneer Valley Cohousing.