Affordable Housing Institute : US

Green is the new black, for three reasons identified by The Economist: 
A green-home boom is getting under way, thanks to:
 
1.  Rising energy prices
 

And rising …
 
2.  New standards (the European Union’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, Britain’s Code for Sustainable Homes and California’s Green Building Standards Code, to name three recent examples), and
 

Not just a […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the previous Part 1.]
 
So far we’ve seen that almost everybody is wrong about what the financial crisis is …
 
1. Not an asset bubble … a systematic under-pricing of risk.
2. Not caused by subprime lending … although that was the miner’s canary.
3. Not principally about the GSEs … because other financial institutions […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]

Yesterday we knocked off a handful of things the credit crisis wasn’t:
 

 
1. Not an asset bubble … a systematic under-pricing of risk.
2. Not caused by subprime lending … although that was the miner’s canary.
3. Not principally about the GSEs … because other financial institutions are in much worse shape
4. Not just […]

Abandon all logic, ye who write about the financial crisis
 
So far a lot of nonsense has been written – mostly in the popular rather than professional press – about what the financial crisis is.  In fact, the Panic of 2008 is a global repricing of risk, the hangover from a decade of binge financial risk-taking […]

What’s the best way to manage a home’s indoor climate?

 
As I type this blog post, our house’s fan is running behind me, circulating air – and directly in front of me is a lovely bank of fifteen-light windows through which I can see our back garden.
 
Why don’t I just turn off the fan and […]