ECO18-13 Passive Houses the Benefits to All

March 26, 2018April 25, 2018Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

ECO Solutions with Sara Troy and her guest Rob Lyon, on air from March 27th

How much energy and money do we lose in our current homes? way too much to count. With so much innovation out there we do not need to keep building the same old money pit of homes that we have been building. It is time to not only save our own money, but to save our planetary energy resources, or we are facing a very hard tomorrow. When we know that there is something better, it is easier to adapt, adopt and redirect to a home that saves on so many levels.

Passive House Standard

The passive house standard was developed in Germany about 40 years ago. The goal was to create a comfortable home that was both friendly to the environment and efficient to operate. The standard calls for two main measurable outcomes: an airtight structure of no more than .6 air changes per hour at 50 pascals of pressure; and heating and cooling cost not to exceed 15kw per meter squared. To put this into perspective, the way we build houses today, the average house leaks at a rate of 4 to 6 air changes per hour and costs about 150kw per meter squared. That is a full order of magnitude apart we had a long way to go.

It turns out the way we have been building houses is the wrong way and we can easily build to this standard, gaining a ten times advantage, by applying just a few simple principles. Eliminate thermal bridges, use only tight sealing windows and doors, reduce northern exposed glazing, maximize solar gain in the winter and minimize in the summer, an pay attention to the details.

The revolutionary energy performance of Passive House buildings demands a rigorous and scientific approach to design and construction. Energy performance savings of 80 – 90% (compared to conventional Canadian construction) do not happen by chance.

While Passive House is certainly the world’s most ambitious and verified energy-efficient building standard, most people invest in this type of construction for the higher quality of living.

The many benefits of Passive House construction over regular Canadian Building Code construction include:

Much better indoor air quality – comfortable humidity levels, low CO2 levels because of comfort ventilation, with optimum ventilation flowrates calculated for each room
Increased thermal comfort – the highest level of interior comfort of any building, with all surfaces equally warm (including the windows), no drafts (ever), no setbacks, no temperature swings
Superior sound insulation – extraordinary airtightness levels, triple-pane glass and thick insulation also provide superior sound insulation – Passive Houses are very quiet indoors!
Almost-unbelievable energy efficiency – 80-90% better than standard construction, with simply no need for a conventional heating system
More durable – detailed and advanced design, better building components, proven building science
Almost no maintenance – very simple mechanical systems compared to normal construction
Resilient – the most resilient construction standard anywhere, which maintains livable conditions even during power or fuel outages, relies very little on any mechanical systems
Sustainable – because of very low energy consumption and durable construction
Versatile – Passive Houses can be built in any climate zone and applied to any building type, utilizing a wide variety of building materials and methods
Internationally embraced – already over 40,000 units in more than 35 different countries … with numbers growing rapidly from China to Abu Dhabi to Alaska.

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Rob Lyon: Growing up as the son of a baker I could think of nothing more in life than going to work each day and eating cakes and cookies but my real love I discovered in high school was physics. I went to university to study physics but switched to computer science and fell in love all over again. Then I discovered the military. What a game changer that was. I joined the Navy as a junior officer and started sailing the seven seas. Soon I was a weapons officer and that meant missiles. I put my computer science background to work and for the next twenty years programmed missile control systems, I was a rocket scientist! It’s all about the software, the chemistry hasn’t changed in 40 years. I also got married, had 5 children, and completed a Masters Degree in Digital Technologies.

I am a passionate person who has always stayed busy. I loved my children and became a scoutmaster, volunteering for 20 years serving in Cubs, Scouts, and Ventures. About 15 years ago I started building houses. About 3 years ago I started studying building science and 1 year ago I learned about the Passive House standard; I had a new passion.

So now as I embark on my final?? career, I will build my first passive house for my wife and I and look forward to sharing that knowledge and experience through my company Pacific Passive House. I am 57.

Here is an example of a Pacific Passive House

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ECO 18-03 Embracing the Innovations of Sustainability

January 11, 2018February 13, 2018Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

ECO Solutions with Sara Troy and her guest Muqbil Ahmar, on air from January 16th

Muqbil Ahmar is the founder of www.greenubuntu.com. He has written on several emerging technologies such as Cloud, Big Data, IoT, startups, SMEs, Enterprises, Technology, ERP, CRM, and everything under the sun—viewed from the prism of new era tech. An MPhil from JNU has made me liberal and tolerant. He believes technology has to add meaning to the lives of people for whom it was created in the first place. He wants to bring about a better understanding between the two worlds so that they do not act against each other but in mutually beneficial ways so that the world becomes a better place to live in and to leave for future generations. He loves to write on tech, economy, films, arts and culture, and other diverse subjects.

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Muqbil says, “Editor-in-Chief and Founder at greenubuntu.com. I am an environmentalist, technology evangelist, women empowerment advocate, writer and editor. Basically, I am a storyteller at heart and want to make the world a better place. With more than 10 years of experience in media, I want to be the catalyst for making the world green and clean and rid the Earth of disasters like global warming, climate change, greenhouse effect, pollution, environmental degradation, etc. I want to reduce the carbon footprint of humanity for a sustainable development model. I have been published on various platforms such as FirstPost, Forbes, TechStory, Greenpeace, The Hindu, Business World, DailyO, Inc. 42, CXO Today, Sify. Experfy, BBN Times.Com, etc.

A SAMPLE OF A NEW INNOVATION.

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Ecoism 17-40 Why Normal is Over with Renee Scheltema

September 23, 2017July 11, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Ecoism because Normal is over with Sara Troy and Renee Scheltema airing from October 3rd.

Renee Scheltema is a documentary filmmaker and producer, a journalist who has dedicated her life to bring us awareness of what is going on in the world that we need to know.

I am honoured to bring you our show on ECOISM Because Normal is Over, a show that will bring you the scientist and movers and shakers in the world of sustainability.

In this show, you will hear Renee’s journey in the making of her movie Normal is Over. and our need to be aware of our footprint on this planet, Renee has experienced her own loss through the making of this movie with the loss of her daughter, for whom she dedicates this movie too.

Take a look at the video and join us her here for our show

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ECO 17-31 Quantum Code One08 Water with Robert O. Williams and Bo Rinaldi

July 22, 2017July 31, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

ECO Solutions with Sara Troy and her guests Robert O. Williams and Bo Rinaldi. On air from August 1st.

The H2Optimizer is co-invented by Robert O. Williams and Patricia Lee Leach & partnered with Michael Kelly, Bo Rinaldi, and Dea Shandera-Hunter to bring One08 products to the masses.

To align to the health of living cells, the device uses magnetism to energise and activate the water into a natural structure. In this process, the water also receives the Quantum Code Technology (QCT) which gives it lasting effects to balance the entire bio field of any living system.

A significant number of urban residents worldwide live in older homes and apartments with degraded plumbing and pipes, where this device is highly suitable for conditioning drinking and washing water and has the advantage of being easily installed and removed without any impact on the surrounding fittings.

One08 is an innovative global technology company with a mission to improve the lives of all human beings worldwide by developing and bringing to market scientifically based life-changing mobile apps and clean technology products that improve the health, performance and lifestyles of its customers. Future offerings from One08 will include additional mobile apps and patented clean technology products with Quantum Code Technology™ to positively affect global resources necessary for healthy living.

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Robert O. Williams, and his Remarkable Book and a Heart+ App, Helping Humanity Move from Fear to Love

What happens when we live all emotions, thoughts and body feelings – as love – as opposed to just searching for love? We are free to give to others without need or fear. That love is the power – and it is pure heart consciousness.

Is it possible? Can we actually increase daily our ability to be in that state of love?

Yes, indeed, and Robert O. Williams has found two breathtaking ways to lead us there.

Williams’ experiences fired his desire to bring to mankind the gift that he had discovered, and he realised that scientific knowledge of that interface between the physical and the metaphysical could be the realm that would speed mankind’s move from fear to love. His tenacity and unwavering pursuit resulted in the Quantum Code Technology™ – a breakthrough that is destined to have a profound impact on manifesting a better world.

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Bo Rinaldi Co-Founded and ran the largest software consulting company in Silicon Valley, from 1984- 2000. Bo helped engineer a successful purchase of the company TTN, by Spherion in 2000. Known as the Jerry Maguire of Silicon Valley, his clients ranged from little-known start-ups that grew into mega-corporations, to Apple, Oracle and IBM. Many times working with other CEOs, Bo provided senior technical talent and project leadership to many engagements including architecture and build out for E*Trade, Netflix, Drugstore.com, Match.com, GetSmart, Skymall, NetObjects and Ticketmaster. Bo provided the key technology teams for Microsoft XML, Adobe’s Acrobat and Apple’s Quicktime. Bo provided executive leadership and high-performance teams for dozens of significant technology projects at Apple, including three for Steve Jobs personally.
As the CEO of his restaurants and consulting company, he and his partners have won many awards while setting new standards for business leadership in their markets. Bo has interests and investments in the technology, nutraceutical, organic food, wellness and natural healing industries. Bo has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, Fast Company, MSNBC, Success Magazine and is also a best selling author and public speaker in the areas of new technology and innovation.

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ECO 17-28 The Snake River Journey: with Tayu Hayward

July 8, 2017June 10, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

ECO Solutions with Sara Troy and her guest Tayu Hayward, on air from July 11th

The Snake River Trip:

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Back in the late summer of 2016, three of my closest friends and I canoed the Yukon’s Snake and Peel Rivers, coursing our way from the vast alpine meadows and soaring summits of the Mackenzie Mountains, down onto the storied Peel Plateau past the Arctic circle. A three-week journey over 500kms, through one of the most remote and undisturbed watersheds in North America – an area over twice the size of Vancouver Island, without a single year-round inhabitant.

It is home instead to Caribou, Grizzly, Moose and Porcupine; Wolverine, Wolf, Lynx and Fox. A land that is as it has been, for hundreds of millennia, unsullied by our hand. A month’s hike or more from the nearest gravel road, it is a place where the long low arc of the Arctic summer sun sets slow and brilliant. Where the aurora light up the night sky in emerald and crimson as the caribou migrate by the thousands in their thunderous chorus of vitality. It is as wondrous a wilderness there is.

And it is under threat. To feed our ever growing appetites for fossil fuels and ore, burdened as we are by old habits we can’t kick. What’s more, the same Yukon government that commissioned the very study that strongly concluded the Peel Watershed much too culturally and ecologically significant to allow for such extractive industries is now vying for just that. It has turned into a much-publicized clash, between the short-sighted interests of industry and government, with those of the Tetlit Gwich’in and Na-Cho Nyuk Dun First Nations, the original stewards of this pristine land. Now after many years of legal battles and countless appeals, the case finally went to the Supreme Court of Canada just this past March, and a verdict is expected by the end of 2017.

Much more than a river or a part of the Boreal forest is at stake here: with this place comes the possibility of improving ourselves as individuals and a society. To know that such a place still exists, where the waters run undammed and untouched for a thousand kilometres and more, where the wolves have played with their howls in the fading twilight under a million passing moons, where we are but transient guests and the more-than-human world rests in all its superlative grandeur – this is enough to know that the wild world is worth more than we can fathom. And with its potential loss, we risk tearing away that much more from our hearts. We risk our ability to look ourselves in the face and not wince. We risk our sanity – spiritual and physical. For what can be said of a culture that knowingly poisons the well it draws its water from? That sells each and every one of us the myth of the Independent Self? And towards this end, pursues profit at the cost of all other things? We can say that that culture is doomed.

When moving with the river for three weeks, by the rhythms of the sun and stars, one has nothing but time to ruminate on the big and small things. The comic tragedy inherent in so much. Our incredibly inspired yet inept species. And the fate of so much resting in the palms of our fumbling hands. Never have we been so out of balance with the world, and never have we been more capable of remedying that. The tension resides within each of us, and it is palpable: we know deep down that something is awfully awry with our species. There is a pervasive sickness inherent in our collective detachment, disillusionment and disrespect; a crisis of attitude and identity that have led us astray. And if one thing remained certain throughout our journey on the Snake, it was this: that true wilderness is essential to human health. It is our oldest most eloquent teacher. It is where we learned of ourselves, where we gathered our stories and strength. Where we learned fortitude, patience, resilience. Family, community, society. We must reclaim its teachings and spread the ancient word. Without wilderness, we are all truly and totally lost.

Tayu Hayward is a fine-art landscape photographer and budding filmmaker based in Vancouver, B.C. His abiding love of the outdoors, instilled at a young age exploring the natural wonders of British Columbia, has driven his passion and life’s central focus: capturing and celebrating the wild beauty of this most precious planet. For Earth’s entirety is under our hammer, and try we must to change course from our rapacious ways. We are ultimately lost without the teachings of Mother Earth, without communion and reverence for the wilds that bore us – it is our birthright, our most essential story. And Natives though we may be, we are long estranged from Nature’s narrative. So it is his abiding hope that through his work, he can help give voice to this bewilderingly beautiful Home we must do so much more to listen to.