This month’s thought provoking TED Conference in Long Beach, CA will hold some programming and social events in LivingHomes’ revolutionary new prefabricated house they call C6. The affordable, aesthetically pleasing home is designed for LEED Platinum homes and focuses on healthy, sustainable construction.
Read all about this sustainable, comfortable home here!
Once again Habitat for Humanity is a shining example of how affordable it really can be to build green. Habitat for Humanity of Kent County (MI) is currently building a home for a disabled veteran and his family that’s expected to achieve LEED Gold.
Construction Liaison, Jamison Lenz of AmeriCorps states, “This house follows a standard [...]
Employees at the Andersen Logistics’ distribution center in Fall River, Mass. recently replaced 468 lighting fixtures in their warehouse. The reduced energy consumption and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is the easily documented savings. However, it’s the brighter and quieter work space that’s really noticeable!
The project, with support from the local utility company, replaced all [...]
Glass technology in windows is complex, difficult to understand and worth a review. Windows perform many different tasks. To fully understand their performance we need to address both the heating and cooling seasons in addition to the entire system that is a building.
Low-E glass: A common term referring to glass that has low emissivity [...]
Environmental Initiative’s (EI) 2012 Legislative Preview was held this week at the Minnesota Science Museum in St. Paul, MN. The annual sneak peek into current hot topics at the Capitol covered the environment, energy and transportation as ten Minnesota Senators and State Representative committee chairs shared their insight during panel discussions.
Topics ranged from aquatic invasive [...]
Andersen’s award winning combined warm-water recovery and bio-mass steam plant was featured in the December issue of Green Manufacturer. Read about the journey that converted our coal generated steam power source to biomass here!
The window industry, with help from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), is currently in the process of defining product category rules (PCRs). These rules ensure an even playing field and help define the scope of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Product category rules are developed collaboratively and openly with all stakeholders at the table.
Our [...]
Environmental Initiative’s Business & Environment Series wrapped up this year with their third and final program – Practicing Product Stewardship: Drivers, Challenges and Strategies.
Best Buy hosted the event at their headquarters in Bloomington, MN. A panel of experts addressed drivers ranging from customer demand to regulatory mandates, and discussed challenges facing manufacturers. Additionally, strategies were [...]
Employees at Renewal by Andersen’s headquarters in Cottage Grove, MN, take protecting the environment seriously! So much so, they’ve formed a volunteer group they call ECO3 Warriors. Their mission: reduce waste, conserve energy and improve the environment.
The five core ECO3 Warriors meet twice a month for an hour. They work on and around the production [...]
Andersen Corporation is pleased to be among 110 Minnesota businesses awarded Xcel Energy Efficiency Partner. Together the winners saved enough energy to power more than 5,500 homes and 29,000 tons of carbon dioxide was prevented from entering the air – equating to 5,700 cars off the road for a year!
This is the third year in [...]
