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Sustainable Home Consultants, LLC: Glenn Retreat Project Receives LEED for Homes "Platinum" Certification

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Sustainable Home Consultants, LLC. West Michigans LEEDing Sustainable/Green Residential Consulting Firm specializing in helping Builder, Developer, and Homeowner navigate through the LEED for Homes and Green Built Michigan certification processes. Saturday, February 18, 2012. Glenn Retreat Project Receives LEED for Homes "Platinum" Certification. It's official we just received LEED for Homes. Certification for the "Glenn Retreat". Landscape Design Services, Inc. Alliance for Environmental Sustainability.

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GLENN RETREAT: December 2010

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Building a home using the LEED for Homes program. Videos of Geothermal Systems. Tuesday, December 7, 2010. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). CROSS SECTION of RAIN GARDEN. This is pretty close to how our rain gardens are built. Walking down the ramp, out the front door - it's great not having any steps. Construction of water retention area along west property line. This photo also shows the southern side of house which was designed to maximize passive solar opportunities.

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GLENN RETREAT: August 2011

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Building a home using the LEED for Homes program. Videos of Geothermal Systems. Sunday, August 7, 2011. The two-volume book Edible Forest Gardens by Dave Jacke with Eric Toensmeier explains the approach we're going to use for growing food at the Glenn Retreat. Our food 'garden' will be seamlessly incorporated into the woodland landscape. One of the fruit trees we're planing to try is the Paw Paw tree. The fruit tastes like a combination of banana, pineapple and mango. Links to this post.

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GLENN RETREAT: Edible Forest Gardens

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Building a home using the LEED for Homes program. Videos of Geothermal Systems. Sunday, August 7, 2011. The two-volume book Edible Forest Gardens by Dave Jacke with Eric Toensmeier explains the approach we're going to use for growing food at the Glenn Retreat. Our food 'garden' will be seamlessly incorporated into the woodland landscape. One of the fruit trees we're planing to try is the Paw Paw tree. The fruit tastes like a combination of banana, pineapple and mango. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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GLENN RETREAT: Geothermal Heating and Cooling System

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Building a home using the LEED for Homes program. Videos of Geothermal Systems. Tuesday, November 1, 2011. Geothermal Heating and Cooling System. Of all the sustainable features or techniques we incorporated into our house, the hardest one for people to understand is our Ground Source heat pump, often referred to as a Geothermal HVAC system . YouTube has some videos that explain it better than I can. November 3, 2011 at 3:53 AM. A good article about geothermal heating and cooling system.

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The "Glenn Retreat" Project is Under Construction ~ The Column by Image Design

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009. The "Glenn Retreat" Project is Under Construction. Image Designs, LLC. Here is a sneak peak of the new " Glenn Retreat". Project which is projected to be a LEED. Platinum" project. This Passive Solar designed Farm House Style cottage will be built by Doug Wierenga. Of Lake Home Builders. The perspective above is a southeast 3d perspective created with Google SketchUp. Methods (24" o.c. framing) w/ Agra. And Not So Big House. To meet the stringent LEED. All ideas of home design.

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GLENN RETREAT: First post

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Building a home using the LEED for Homes program. Videos of Geothermal Systems. Friday, December 4, 2009. Well, we're scheduled to break ground this coming Monday, December 7th, 2009, just in time to coincide with western Michigan's first winter blizzard - what timing! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). CROSS SECTION of RAIN GARDEN. This is pretty close to how our rain gardens are built. Walking down the ramp, out the front door - it's great not having any steps. Many neighbors find blue racers nesting.

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GLENN RETREAT: December 2009

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Building a home using the LEED for Homes program. Videos of Geothermal Systems. Friday, December 4, 2009. Well, we're scheduled to break ground this coming Monday, December 7th, 2009, just in time to coincide with western Michigan's first winter blizzard - what timing! Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). CROSS SECTION of RAIN GARDEN. This is pretty close to how our rain gardens are built. Walking down the ramp, out the front door - it's great not having any steps. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking t...