It’s nearly impossible not to feel good in Luke and Sarah Cellier’s passive-solar home above the Back River in Georgetown. Bright, airy, and filled with greenery, the house energizes and uplifts. It ...

Instead, her home makes use of passive solar energy to stay cool ... Finally, the use of a sunspace works like a small greenhouse, pulling heat in and acting like a furnace.

Passive solar homes have generally been more expensive ... of solar that is generated will substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions like CO2, as well as other dangerous pollutants such ...

Thus a typical modern passive solar system consists of a glass-covered thermal mass with a south or southwest exposure - for example, a solar greenhouse with a concrete slab floor that shares its ...

As a former realtor, general contractor and greenhouse operator ... moving more powered items to renewable energy, like solar, so that homes require less use of fossil fuels.

Practical considerations aside, greenhouses can also be turned into really beautiful places to call home. The greenhouse ... the light and capture that passive solar energy," Amy MacMillan said.

Paul and Patricia Grogan, both 81, built an energy-efficient passive solar home near Dublin in the 1970s ... two-bathroom, greenhouse-like structure with a fully glazed front.

Many growers install secondary heating systems in their greenhouses to supplement the sun's rays and keep plants warm. These systems may run on passive solar power, which is a greenhouse ...