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Hi Jamie,
Welcome to Wolfworks newsletter about the people, projects, and ideas that inspire our work and our relationships with folks like you.
Here's what you will find us up to in this issue:
Celebrating the Solstice
Getting a new home in the ground as winter approaches
Supporting Sustainable Southbury's Food Waste Initiative
Introducing our new "Better Home Guide"
Energy stories worth watching
Beyond Orange Cars...
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Celebrating the Light
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It's no surprise that we choose to celebrate light in this season of darkness. Here on the winter solstice the sun sits low and the light pours into homes designed to be heated by solar energy. From Hannukah candles to Christmas tree lights, however you choose to celebrate light in the darkness, Happy Solstice!
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Homes Design Themselves
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Here's a home design secret: the home starts to design itself. The opportunities and challenges the building site presents guide how the home wants to be arranged and its design developed. As we break ground on our latest high performance home we thought we'd describe just how this works.
Blog Post: These Homes Start to Design Themselves
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Sustainable Southbury's Food Waste Initiative
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We support the work that Sustainable Southbury is doing to call attention to the impact of food waste. Gone are the days of throwing out our trash and never giving it a second thought. Our landfills are full, the Hartford trash burning plant has closed and many towns are now shipping trash out of state (expensive in both dollars and carbon emissions). It’s simply not a sustainable solution to keep on doing what we have been doing.
Learn more and support this important work
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We
built this Zero Energy home in Southbury for one of the champions of Sustainable Southbury's Food Waste Initiative. We learned about this important work from her while taking part in their Environmental Fair this past Spring.
Learn and See more here
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Your Guide to Designing and Building a Better Home
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We're in the Better business. This is your mobile friendly guide to designing and building a better home. It walks you through the ways in which we think and build differently to create homes of lasting beauty that harvest the sun to produce as much energy as they use. It describes both the process, and the results: barefoot comfort, health, durability and energy security that you just can't get building for the world as it was. It's an invitation to Build Better.
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The Electrify Transition is Happening Now
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KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN
Here are a few links to stories we have our eyes on
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Will this be the color trend that endures?
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Move over Orange, Wet Putty may be here to stay
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Last month we shared a post about Orange Cars & Black and White Houses. Then this post alerted us to what is likely to be the enduring trend - which once you know about you will
increasingly notice - like it or not!
Why do new cars look like this?
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Stay Informed Every Day
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We invite you to follow project progress and activities that may interest you on our Facebook and Instagram accounts. We appreciate your comments, likes, and shares as we endeavor to share what we do with you and the world.
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