http://www.thompsonplans.com/blog Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:32:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en BYOBlue is a nationwide collaborative between Architecture 2030, Earth Day Network and numerous other groups calling for an immediate moratorium on the construction of any new coal plants. In 2007, Fifty-nine coal plants were canceled - over a third of the 151 planned. That was before millions of people joined ... http://www.thompsonplans.com/blog/archives/13 I would like to pass this along to anyone interested. It's Almost Time to Face It! Come January 30th at 9 am EST, thousands of people will be logging on to www.architecture2030.org to view one of the most informative and solution-oriented webcast on global warming to ever be aired. If you have ... http://www.thompsonplans.com/blog/archives/12 I described in an earlier post about a new company developing thin film solar panels. Nano Solar recently sent out a progress report to subscribers which I will paste below. I find this development very encouraging and exciting. The only issue seems to be supply availability for ... http://www.thompsonplans.com/blog/archives/11 I would like to announce that I am starting a sister web site www.sustainablehouseplans.com. It most likely will be a while before I actually get the site online, but I am starting to shift my time from developing plans for this site, to designing plans for the new site. ... http://www.thompsonplans.com/blog/archives/10 Photos are now posted for Dainne's studio. If anyone has interest in this studio as a stock house plan, let me know. While it does have the flavor of a bungalow or craftsman style house plan, it is a just one room workshop. Much of the detailing was done as I ... http://www.thompsonplans.com/blog/archives/9 Well, interesting and creative detailing. Not my wording below, not sure of the source. A city councilman in Utah, Mark Easton, had a beautiful view of the east mountains, until a new neighbor purchased the lot below his house and built a new home. The new home was 18 inches higher ... http://www.thompsonplans.com/blog/archives/8 I ran across this very interesting video of a man, Dr. John Kansas, who developed a method of burning salt water with radio waves. He is working on killing cancer cells with radio waves, and this turned up. http://www.glumbert.com/media/saltwater http://www.thompsonplans.com/blog/archives/7 Far from an eternal question, yet a situation threatening the American landscape for generations. The sad reality is some of the ugliest residential architecture of all time is what we have to view as we speed down the interstate. With each house having countless steep gables stacked on ... http://www.thompsonplans.com/blog/archives/5 Nanosolar is perhaps the most exciting new development on the energy horizon I know of. Silicon-wafer based solar cells have been the basic option for anyone wanting to generate electricity from the sun. Despite many improvements over the last 30 years, they are still expensive and difficult to ... http://www.thompsonplans.com/blog/archives/4 I can’t think of a more relevant topic today for a house plan site like this, than going “Green”. If you are buying a new home, please don’t, unless the builder has some credibility in this area. There are different ”Green” programs in different areas of the country ... http://www.thompsonplans.com/blog/archives/3