When Terri was looking to downsize from her home in Austin, Texas, she discovered Whisper Valley – a sustainable, net-zero capable planned community under development just 20 minutes east of downtown.

Advances in direct exchange geothermal technology have finally produced a simple geothermal system that minimizes drilling requirements while offering impressive efficiencies and comfort. In this ...

On a rainy spring day, a drill rig punched hundreds of feet into the earth, spilling muddy water out onto a dirt lot at the University of Louisville, where a new engineering school will soon stand.

Which makes this Eavor-Loop technology a bit of a unicorn. Essentially it's a low-enthalpy geothermal station that sends fluid through a sealed loop in a way that self-perpetuates without adding any ...

The Chippewa Nature Center is using chemistry from The Dow Chemical Co. to heat and cool its newly built Nature Preschool. DOWFROST Heat Transfer Fluid — 165 gallons worth — will be used for the ...

MARTHA’S VINEYARD, MA — This geothermal rescue was for a closed loop geothermal system that was seriously overheating during the cooling season. This system had ten vertical loops that served 11 heat ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Dandelion aims to save you money while helping to save the planet. The company, spun off into its own business from Google’s experimental “X” unit for so-called “moonshots,” sells ...

WAHPETON, N.D. - Players scrimmaging on the football field at the Circle of Nations School probably have no idea they're trampling over parts of the campus cooling-and-heating system. But there's no ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — When it comes to hearing “it just can’t be done,” Oklahoma City-based Ideal Homes couldn’t be more welcoming of the challenge. Titian Burris, pictured here, worked for several years ...

They say when you’re in a hole, stop digging. But according to the Environmental Protection Agency, digging deep holes, or more accurately drilling them, is the most energy efficient, cost effective ...

Vancouver International Airport is the largest facility in British Columbia and requires a lot of heating and cooling. Those needs will be increased by a $300 million expansion designed to add 300,000 ...