High Performance Homes, No More Cost

Energy-efficient and healthy don’t have to mean expensive. Our editors have compiled these top real-world strategies to live the way you want to at a price you can afford.

Type: Guide

Sponsor: EEBA

Integrated Water Management: Key to Sustainable Development and Stability

Integrated Water Management is a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water resources in an equitable manner without compromising vital ecosystems. This white paper dives into the Integrated Water Management process and reveals how communities and industries are addressing wastewater management into the future.

Type: White Paper

Sponsor: Bio-Microbics

An Arizona City Conserves Precious Resource by Using a Water Saving Device

Arizona is no stranger to water awareness. While the air quality is wonderful, annual rainfall hovers around single digits. In June 2000, one city in Arizona instituted a plumbing code mandating all new residential construction have dedicated hot-water return lines...

Type: Case Study

Sponsor: ACT D'MAND Systems

Help for Your Biologically-Failed Septic Systems

On average, every home discharges 250 gallons of waste water every day. While conservation efforts and knowing what not to put down drains reduces stress on septic systems, they can still fail for a number of reasons, potentially releasing everything...

Type: White Paper

Sponsor: Bio-Microbics

How to Choose Sustainable Products for Your Home

These days everything from trash bags to whole communities is labeled as "sustainable." What does that really mean? The essence of the term sustainable is "that which can be maintained over time."

Type: White Paper

Sponsor: SCHOTT North America

How to Sell More Homes in Today's Market

Building green homes, and properly marketing them, is how builders are thriving in a tough economy.

Type: White Paper

Sponsor: ProudGreenHome.com

Camp Virgil Tate - Anua Case Study

Camp Virgil Tate is a 400-acre 4-H campground and conference center located 30-minutes outside Charleston West Virginia. The camp consists of four cottages, a motel-style lodge, and dining hall with several meeting rooms. Four barns and two show rings are available for horse camps and equestrian events.

Type: Case Study

Sponsor: Anua

Greensboro - Anua Case Study

A valuable residential building lot in Greensboro, NC was not readily accessible to city sewer. Accessing city sewer was price prohibitive because a major thoroughfare was adjacent to the property and easements crossed adjoining properties.

Type: Case Study

Sponsor: Anua

Lake George - Anua Case Study

Lake George is a long, narrow lake draining northwards into Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence River drainage basin located at the southeast base of the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York. The lake is home to 395 islands. While...

Type: Case Study

Sponsor: Anua

Potential Decentralized System - Anua Case Study

The unincorporated hamlet of Shenandoah in Richland County Ohio, north of Mansfield, has 35 homes, a church, a general store and a community center. In 2003, wastewater was discharging into an open ditch and the local health department found 36...

Type: Case Study

Sponsor: Anua

Shell-media Biological System - Anua Case Study

Stillwater Crossing Pump Station No. 3961, in Orange County Florida, was originally built in a rural area without odor control. When a large residential and commercial development was built nearby, Orange County Utilities (OCU) began to receive odor complaints, making odor control necessary.

Type: Case Study

Sponsor: Anua

Mud River - Anua Case Study

The Left Fork watershed of the Mud River is a low income rural community in Lincoln County, West Virginia. Phase 1 was an agreement between the Lincoln County Commission and the U.S. EPA. Phase 2 was funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Type: Case Study

Sponsor: Anua