Our website re-design took literally months to perfect, and it appears our hard work is paying off. We recently learned that the critics of all critics – web designers and developers – are showcasing our new website on… Read more
The legendary New York Times brought Solar Harvest to the world stage in an article titled “The Showhouse That Sustainability Built” on March 26, 2008. Click the title to view the article.
Recently we learned that an article featuring our flagship zero energy home, Solar Harvest, had hit a Chinese paper. It’s a nearly direct translation of the New York Times feature article, and the translation back to English… Read more
In September 2009 Eric Doub was invited to speak at a luncheon for the Boulder Rotary Club about Ecofutures pioneering work in creating a more sustainable community. The luncheon was wonderful and the audience… Read more
Ecofutures was awarded an honorable mention for the international Green Dot Awards. Of over 500 entries from all over the world, only 25 received awards. Ours came in the competition’s “Design + Build” category for our… Read more
Read the great new Solar Today article, “Retrofit for Zero Net Energy,” about 1247 Scrub Oak, a deep energy retrofit we completed in 2008, that made an energy-inefficient and outdated 1970′s ranch-style home typical of South Boulder into a… Read more
HGTV Pro’s January 2010 newsletter features Solar Harvest, Ecofutures flagship zero net energy home, as a model for building methods that will “future-proof” your home from rising energy costs for just 7-8% more in construction costs. The article shows… Read more
Presented during the 2006 E-Star Summit, Ecofutures was awarded the New Millennium Builder of the Year Award for our commitment to innovations in energy efficiency and to building ENERGY STAR-rated homes. With founder and CEO, Eric Doub, trained as an… Read more
A film crew from the Discovery Science Channel seeking out “the high technology of building green” visited two Ecofutures homes today to interview our staff for the show, Eco Tech (now canceled). The episode aired during the… Read more
2007 marked Ecofutures first year honoring our 2006 pledge to build 100% of all new homes as Energy Star-qualified homes; homes that are designed and built to meet strict guidelines for energy efficiency set by the U.S. EPA. We are… Read more
Efficiency First represents America’s Home Performance Workforce, ranging from energy auditors and raters to contractors who are the front line of our climate battle, embodied in green-collar jobs from weatherization to HVAC. By organizing these groups nationally, Efficiency First has… Read more
On June 21, 2009, Ecofutures founder Eric Doub spoke with Duncan Campbell about “Homes for the New Energy Economy” on the show Living Dialogues, a show featuring pioneers in new paradigm thinking in a broad variety of fields. Each show provides… Read more
In a February 26, 2009 email sent to Ecofutures, Adam Stenftenagel of Sustainably Built remarked: ”Congrats on this project! It’s the first negative HERS score certificate I’ve produced!” Which got us to wonder: Could this be one of the… Read more
Writers at Kitchen + Bath Business magazine took notice of Ecofutures’ strong focus on green and zero net energy construction and chose to highlight the motivation driving this decision in a profile piece on
In a late-January 2009 town meeting, county officials met with builders, homeowners, prospective buyers and members of the community to dicuss several points of criticism to Boulder County’s new BuildSmart program. BuildSmart is a precedent-setting building code that… Read more
Ecofutures was honored in Las Vegas this weekend for our outstanding performance in the Department of Energy’s Builder’s Challenge. The Builder’s Challenge calls on builders to construct homes that meet a 70 or better on the EnergySmart Home Scale (E-Scale).… Read more
Even though we here at Ecofutures headquarters can’t read this article, we are thrilled to see the Solar Harvest story published in another language. We were found through an internet search by Yan Lu, editor of Shanghai’s Bund Newspaper.… Read more
Eric Doub was interviewed for a Greenwire article that went to press recently discussing projections for distributed residential and commercial power generation stations – also known as the buildings we live in! As more houses like… Read more
In April 2007, Solar Harvest was outfitted with advanced data monitoring equipment, including Watt Nodes by Continental Controls Systems, to monitor the home’s energy and comfort systems. During the summer to follow, as we refined the equipment settings,… Read more
Ok, we admit, it’s not the news-worthy headline, but Energy Design Update thought it was news enough for their News Briefs section of the May, 2008 issue! Click here to read the short brief and read on for our corrections:
The reasons… Read more
A recent survey of homebuyers in the Denver area confirms what many builders have come to know is true: efficient homes are selling – fast. A whopping 63% of homebuyers stated that they were looking to buy low- to zero-energy… Read more
One of Ecofutures’ projects, a South Boulder deep energy retrofit is prominently featured among the case studies of exemplary green homes. View case study
From the folks at BuildingGreen and the publishers of Fine Homebuilding comes… Read more
In a beautifully illustrated article by Sandra Graham, with photographs by Phil Mumford, Eric Doub and two Ecofutures’ clients were interviewed to discuss the benefits to remodeling green. The article featured Joan Gregerson, who is converting her existing Longmont home… Read more
In a unique feature on the benefits of green building from an investor’s point of view, Brad Kelly of Investor’s Business Daily features several national builders including Ecofutures to discuss the ongoing trend. Quite simply put, building green makes “cents.”… Read more
“There are hundreds of building codes that cost more to follow than the easiest way of doing things. We cannot afford not to afford these measures,” remarked Eric at the close of a hearing on improving sustainability measures in Boulder’s… Read more
This weekend’s warm temperatures and sunny days marked the onset of what many Boulder residents referred to as “the big melt” – as Boulder began to emerge from a blanket of snow that lingered for over 50 days. As residents… Read more
Marking the one-year anniversary of moving into Solar Harvest, Eric discusses experiences from the first year and proposes new directions for zero net energy homes.
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Boulder Home Pushes for Zero in the Nov/Dec 2006 issue of Home Energy Magazine Online discusses general specifications and performance of Solar Harvest after its first… Read more
In a beautiful six-page color spread, author Carol Driscoll of Smart Homeowner magazine explores the multifaceted elements of Solar Harvest including design concepts, builder philosophies, national home energy trends and how Solar Harvest contributes to the green building movement.
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