E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is a podcast dedicated to energy efficient home building in cold climate areas of New England. This week I had the opportunity to sit down and have dinner with two amazing building science colleagues. Mike Maines and Bob Swinburne. In this week's podcast we had a round table discussion about building science and residential construction.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is a podcast dedicated to energy efficient home building in cold climate areas of New England. In this podcast we recap some of the discussion from the Sustainable Communities panel on Wednesday night. I don’t go into detail on the other participants specialties, but I do hope to have each of them on the podcast to elaborate on the ideas and wisdom that I gained from being on a panel with them.

In this episode we discuss sustainable communities with Bob Muller. Bob's Douglas Ridge development in Maine is meant to be a "Community with a sense of Place"

In this podcast we invited Howie Berger, a homeowner who designed and built a home with us, to come on and talk about his experience designing, building, and living in a high performance home.

In today’s episode we want to share a little bit about one of our nearly complete projects that is going to be a net-positive home. I share a little bit about how we started the design, how we changed the design, and just some aspects of the project that we are pretty excited about!

Windows, one of my favorite subjects to talk about, have a major impact on appearance of a home, along with how you feel within the space due to views and daylighting, as well as the energy performance. So tune in to hear me talk about all the ways windows interact with a home and it's occupants.

Coming to you today from Copper Farmhouse, we apologize that the sound is a little quiet, so turn it up. In this weeks episode we expand a little bit on our high performance homes by talking about what is net zero, what it means to us, and what it means to the greater community of building!

In this episode of the E3 podcast, listen to Emily ramble on about the benefits of building and living in a high performance home. Who wouldn't want to spend less to heat their home. Who doesn't want to improve the health and indoor air quality when we spend 90% of our time indoors. Listen to Emily talk about just a few things she thinks are important to those who live in high performance homes.

In this Episode of the E3 Podcast we chat with our friend and owner of Main-Land Development Consultants, Inc about understanding, developing, and protecting your land. Things you should know about dealing with your land and in some cases, things you should know before purchasing and developing land. We would love your comments and questions on this podcast as we would be happy to have someone from Main-Lands talented staff expand upon any of the topics that Bob and I talked about today. Check out their website HERE: https://main-landdci.com

In this episode we invited our friend and colleague Mike Maines back to discuss wood fiber insulation and it’s new life here in the state of Maine!