What does it means to renovate “green?” Well it starts long before you think what you are going to use as your kitchen countertops because renovation or building new is often a wasteful process. The first thing to do is to start at the beginning and that means thinking about starting with an existing house.

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Over at recool (blog by Designers Westlake Reed Leskosky) there is a good review(including specs for energy consumption) of the MOCA Cleveland. What is interesting are the graphs which are available (see above) which show dramatically which areas of the building use the most energy. In this case the Gas Space Heating is responsible for

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