How green is your Ann Arbor home?
Green building gets some high profile attention from the Freep as a local insulation demonstration draws crowds and Matt Grocoff's greener-than-thou homestead produces excess electricity. Both stories are guaranteed to make you feel sustainably inadequate. Excerpt: "Imagine a home so green and energy-efficient that it produces enough electricity that you can skip paying a utility bill. In fact, the power company pays you for the excess electricity that your house generates. Matthew Grocoff imagined it and made it happen at his 111-year-old west-side Ann Arbor home." Read all about the wonder of insulation in the Behind The Drywall article here (with photo essay). Read all about the Grocoff home here (with photo essay).
Green building gets some high profile attention from the Freep as a local insulation demonstration draws crowds and Matt Grocoff’s greener-than-thou homestead produces excess electricity. Both stories are guaranteed to make you feel sustainably inadequate.
Excerpt:
“Imagine a home so green and energy-efficient that it produces enough electricity that you can skip paying a utility bill.
In fact, the power company pays you for the excess electricity that your house generates. Matthew Grocoff imagined it and made it happen at his 111-year-old west-side Ann Arbor home.”
Read all about the wonder of insulation in the Behind The Drywall article here (with photo essay).
Read all about the Grocoff home here (with photo essay).
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