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Carbon Zero Home is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to finding the most affordable model for retrofitting a house to neutral emissions. Our maiden project-- The BrickHouse-- is 123 years old. A building with good bones and a sturdy brick exterior, we have completely gutted the inside then installed all new wiring, new plumbing, and a new heat system. We have spray-foamed a seamless R-28 envelope, and we will be installing triple-pane Euro-style windows.
This high-performance house will be efficient enough to operate without a furnace .
Carbon Zero Home is partnered with the USGBC-Minnesota’s Dynamic Green Home program to help use our worksite as a place where volunteers could come make a difference, and experts and manufacturers could educate volunteers about green products and the green features of the home.
Located in the rising community of North Minneapolis, this resilient low-cost house will provide a secure and exceptionally inexpensive home for a family with limited resources, while also helping solve the global problem of Climate Change.
The old three-car garage was badly burned in a fire, so we tore it down and are now building a new one-car garage, with a 3.1kW solar array on the roof. 75% of the funds for the solar array have already been raised, and we just need another $4,500 to get it up and running.
Please help us complete our project by donating to the on-site power source for The BrickHouse.
Renewable energy and high-performance homes are valuable in any neighborhood, but they are most useful in lower-income communities, which are getting hit first and hit hardest by our destablizing climate system.
By creating an innovative model for an affordable and practical neutral emission retrofit, we hope to inspire other contractors, affordable housing developers-- and even the new City/Utility partnership here in Minneapolis-- to follow our example and transform more old energy-wasting houses into smart efficient solutions to the Climate problem.
When it comes to sustainability, Minnesota is New York, New York: if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
Buildings account for 40% of carbon emissions in the United States. We want to challenge the rest of the country to transform their existing buidlings into part of the concert of solutions that will bring us to a society that run 100% on renewable energy by 2050.
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