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A solar pioneer takes his home to the next level
Richard Levine has heard all of the arguments about why solar energy won’t work in Kentucky. And he has been defying them for three decades. Levine, a University of Kentucky architecture professor,...
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Thinking solar for your home? Lots of options
I heard from readers when I wrote about the pioneering solar home that Lexington architect Richard Levine built for himself in the 1970s and recently upgraded with new technology. I heard from more...
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UK building program should go green, save green
UK President Eli Capilouto at Richardsville Elementary School in Warren County last month. Photo by Joe Imel/Bowling Green Daily News When I interviewed Eli Capilouto recently about his first eight...
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West Liberty looks to Kansas town for model of rebuilding ‘green’
Looking from the south end of Greensburg, Kan., the view has changed since an EF-5 tornado destroyed the town on May 4, 2007. Greensburg now claims to have the most Leadership in Energy and...
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Habitat needs volunteer builders for Morgan, Menifee reconstruction
Greg Dike, right, executive director of the Morehead Area Habitat for Humanity group, helps build an interior wall for a house near Morehead with a group of volunteers from Lexington on Jan. 19....
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Capitol Education Center shows progress can penetrate coal politics
A group of Louisville high school students in Frankfort to attend the I Love Mountains Day events toured the Capitol Education Center roof, which has solar panels, a wind turbine and a roof garden....
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She wanted classic style, he wanted a net-zero energy house.
Jamie Clark, a Lexington energy consultant, renovated a circa 1958 house in Chevy Chase to see if he could create a “net zero” energy house that looks like a typical Lexington house. Photos by Tom...
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