Links:
There are a lot of valuable resources out there... You just need to find them

Other Energy-Efficient, Earth-Sheltered, Solar, or Sustainable homes.

• Solar Harvest House
  
• Stan & Kathy's Earth Sheltered Home
  
• DayCreek. A wonderfully doucumented solar Cordwood home.
  
• The House. An evolving earth-sheltered dome home.
  
• Four Mile Island. One man's success at self sufficiency.
  
• Paul Westbrook's passive solar home
  
• Building at The Ledge (a construction diary)
  
• A geothermal home retrofit
  
• The Steinberg Passive Solar Home.
  
• Glen & Joanne Hunter's off-grid home in Canada
  
• Adam and Dawn-Marie Starr's journey to a modern sustainable life.
  
• Even Bill Gates went underground.
  
• The Underground World Home at the NY World Fair of 1964
  

• MetaEfficient: A guide to the most efficient things in the world.
  
• Earth-House.com A great site for earth home information
  
• SZ: Sustainability Zone
  
• MalcolmWells.com A site dedicated to architect:
  
• The Not So Big House, by Sarah Susanka
  
• Liquefaction, The Underground (earth bermed and sheltered) Home
  
• Capturing Heat While the Sun Shines: Annualized Geo-Solar
  
• Self Heating Houses.
  
• University of Texas Materials reference (with links).
  
• Free Home Heating and Cooling!
  
• Furnace Free home discussion. Excellent!
  
• Ecological Living
  
• Care2 Environment Supersite for a healthy planet.
  
• Minnesota Power's Model Energy-Saving Home
  
• The Environmental Store
  
• Efficient Window Design Info
  
• Directory of links to Alternative Building methods
  

• Smart Home Owner Magazine: Home systems and technology explained.
  
• Environmental News Network
  
• Home Energy Magazine
  
• The Natural Home Builder
  
• The Green Builder Sourcebook
  
• Energy Source Builder Magazine
  
• Eco Invester Magazine (Oct 2005)
  

• Fine Homebuilding
  

• Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
  
• NAHB Research Center (great topic search capability)
  
• Environmental Building News
  
• American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
  

• Present State of knowledge about Radiant Cooling Systems
  
• Ventilation Strategies for buildings with Hydronic Radiant Conditioning
  
• Energy Source Builder: Hydronic Cooling
  
• Integrated Mechanical Systems
  
• Concrete Core Conditioning
  

• Healthy Heating: Building Home Comfort Quality Into Your Indoor Environments
  
• Radiant Floor Company (Great examples)
  
• Radiantec Company
  
• Burnham radiant heating components
  
• Bradford White Water Heaters & DHW Storage
  
• Taco valves and hydronic control systems
  

• Architectural Residential technologies DIY Geothermal
  
• Oklahoma State University GSHP Discussion Forum.
  
• Geo-Heat Center: A great resoure from the Oregon Institute of Technology
  
• Just Geothermal.
  
• My 15 minutes of fame. Washington Times article
  
• The Geo Connection. Explanations and links
  
• Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium
  
• Interesting discussion on GSHP types.
  
• ECONAR - ColdClimate Geothermal Heat Pumps
  
• WaterFurnace International, Inc.
  
• American Geothermal DX Heat Pumps
  
• ECR Technologies DX Heat Pumps
  
• Addision Heat Pumps
  
• Hydron Module® Geothermal Ground Source Heat Pumps
  
• Florida Heat Pump
  
• CommandAir Water-Water GS Heatpump
  
• Trane Ground Source Heat Pumps
  
• Crown Boiler, Indirect Water Heater
  
• Flat Plate Hydronic Heat Exchangers
  
• Dr. Jeffrey Spitler's research on Ground Source Energy Analysis
  

• OtherPower.com The Blunt Edge of High Technology (Wind Power)
  
• Bird Monitoring Program PDF
  
• Birds and Wind Turbines
  
• Bats and Wind Turbines
  
• Danish Wind Power Facts
  
• General Wind Power Facts
  

• Recommended Ventilation Strategies for Energy Efficient Homes (pdf)
  
• LifeBreath Energy Recovery Ventilators (ERV/HRV)
  
• SoundGT Energy Recovery Ventilators (ERV)
  
• American Aldes Heat Recovery Ventilators (HRV)
  
• Greenheck Energy Wheel ERV
  
• Thermal Associates ERV
  
• Honeywell ERV
  
• Venmar ERV
  
• Aldes: Multi-Port ventilators
  
• Thermastore (DEC) Ventilation/Dehumidification systems
  

• Firewall.cx Everything you ever wanted to know about networking.
  
• Future Smart Structured Cabling
  
• Smart Home. Home automation solutions
  
• Z-World Embedded Computer systems
  
• Sell n Tell Cat5 cabling solutions
  
• The WeatherDuck a neat remote monitoring system.
  
• Continental Control Systems: Power Monitors
  
• Cyber Guys Network hardware, Cabling Etc.
  
• Channel Plus. Innovations in video voice and data
  
• Siemon Home Cabling solutions
  
• Leviton Home Automation
  
• Great Cables. Connections made simple
  
• Starband Users. Informative site for Satellite Internet.
  

• 1-Wire and iButton Product Tree
  
• The LINK. Serial to 1-Wire(tm) Bus Interface
  
• Watt-hour metering on any electric circuit
  
• 1-Wire Weather Station
  
• PointSix Wireless sensors
  
• DIY Zoning by Vadim Tkachenko
  

• ARCAT Building Materials information
  
• 4 Specs. Construction material database.
  
• Shallow, Insulated Foundations Lower Construction Costs
  
• Design Guide for Frost-Protected Shallow Foundations.
  

• Energy Outfitters. Specializes in renewable energy products
  
• Brand Electronics: Produces digital power meters
  
• Eco Business Links
  
• Marvin Windows & Doors
  
• Weather Shield Windows
  
• Pella Windows
  
• Andersen Windows
  
• Therma-Tru energy efficient doors..
  
• Gadco Insulated Garage Doors
  
• R-Control Geo-Foam
  
• American Energy Systems. Corn Burning Stoves
  
• Efficient Ceiling Fan and light
  
• VIMCO Automated shades
  
• CHOFU wood fired HOT TUB heaters
  

• Steel roofing resource site
  
• INSUL-DECK Insulated concrete roof forms
  
• IMSA Steel Building Products (Skyline roofing)
  
• Owens Corning Shingles
  

• DayCreek: Solar Energy Primer
  
• Build-It-Yourself Solar Projects
  
• Anualized Geo Solar (AGS)
  
• Passive Annual Heat Storage (PAHS)
  
• Solar Roofs solar water heater
  
• Thermo Technologies
  
• SolarWall Solar Heating System
  
• The Solar. Everything for Renewable Energy Systems
  

• Hi-Tech Building Systems Corporation: Armopanel
  
• Versa-Lock retaining wall block
  
• SmartBlock foam forms for concrete foundations
  
• HardiPlank Fiber Cement Siding
  
• The Tech Block® Wall System
  
• Omni-Block Dry Stacked Insulated block walls.
  
• TriD Insulating Panels
  
• Cultured stone (artificial masonary)
  
• Michigan PreStain Cedar Siding and shingle
  

• Therma-Core, insulated concrete structures
  
• InCrete Textured and Pigmented concrete
  
• Block Joist floor system.
  
• Kemiko Concrete stains
  
• Nox Crete concrete sealants and stains
  

• Seisco Tankless Water Heaters
  
• Do-It-Yourself Radiant Heat
  
• Monolithic Domes
  
• Hurd Windows and Patio doors
  
• American Blind and Wallpaper Factory
  
• Kozy-Heat gas and wood fireplaces.
  
• Superior Fireplaces (Heat circulating)
  
• Hunter Douglas Window Coverings
  
• Whirlpool Tub Selector
  
• Spiral Staircase Kits
  
• Swan Iron Spiral Stairs.
  
• A J Stairs. Alternating Tread Stair (Captain's Ladder)
  
• Interior Doors (glass and pocket)
  
• SileStone counter top material.
  
• Vanguard Pipe (plastic piping systems and manifold for radiant & geothermal applications)
  
• The Iron Shop. Spiral Stair Kits
  
• Ikea Energy Efficient Lighting
  

• Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE)
  
• Energy Star Homes program
  
• Tax credits for Energy Star Appliances
  
• More on MD Tax Credits
  
• Maryland Solar Tax Incentive
  
• Garrett County Local Govt.
  
• CABO Building Codes
  
• Million Solar Roofs
  

• A green-roof community site
  
• Sarnafil Green roofing
  
• Roofscapes
  
• W.P. Hickman EcoRoof
  
• Invisible Structures: Grass and Gravel retention systems.
  
• Hydrotech Roof garden and waterproofing systems.
  
• GEOBLOCK® Porous Pavement System
  
• Wildflower Farm
  

• Delts-MS Basement Wrap
  
• Form-A-Drain
  
• J-Drain drainage components from JDR Enterprises
  
• Hydro-Stop Environmentally safe waterproofing system
  
• AquaFin Concrete additives
  
• Cementaid. Concrete additive
  
• Waterproofing and drainage membranes
  

• Energy Smart (Australia)
  
• Green Power (Australia)
  

• Annualized Geo-Solar and Eco-design hompage
  
• LivingSol.com Creating healthy, energy efficient, environmental homes and cottages
  
• R.C. Smoot Constuction
  
• Davis Caves construction
  
• Earth Sheltered Technology
  
• Earthship Biotexture
  
• The Natural Home Building Source
  

• Garrett County local Government
  
• Deep Creek Times
  
• The Republican News Online
  
• The Deep Creek Blog
  
• Garrett County Chamber of Commerce
  
• Deep Creek Hospitality page
  
• Garrett County weather page.
  
• Oakland MD Page
  
• Wisp Ski Resort
  
• Adventure Sports Center
  
• Windpower in Garrett County
  
• Deep Creek Lake State Park
  
• Camp Earth. Outdoor activities at Deep Creek Lake.
  

• Chief Architect (used for OurCoolHouse)
  

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This site is all about building a cool, energy efficient house, that makes maximum use of earth sheltered design, passive solar heating and cooling, geothermal exchange energy management, and right sizing of the house for it's designated use. The home's placement is on a south-facing hillside in Deep Creek Lake, Maryland. This site describes the design process, the technologies used and the expected results. We also have a comprehensive Links Page for anyone who is also interested in designing a similar project.