Home Tours
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We live in an interesting and cutting edge area and many of your neighbors are already implementing the energy saving and sustainable ideas put forth at the Energy Fair. Take one of our guided Green Home Tours on Sunday, April 29 and get a first hand look.
The homes and buildings featured are energy efficient, well-insulated, employ passive solar design and often use either grid-tied or off-grid solar photovoltaics, wind energy, hydropower and/or geothermal heat pumps. Some are built with alternative building methods such as strawbale and cordwood masonry and some have unique and interesting designs. An extra tour of off-grid homes will be added this year. Below is a gallery of some that are likely to be on this year’s tours.
If you would like to join us, sign up at the Fair near the front reception table. Tours are very popular, so be sure to sign up early. Morning tours go from 9:30 to 1 and afternoon from 1 to 4. You may choose only one and registration is limited to 20 people for each. (A limited amount of pre-Fair sign-ups are available for out of towners only. Call 315-379-9466 or email patricia@ncenergy.org)
HOME TOURS 2007
Canton Tour - 9:30 am, Leave from Canton P&C Supermarket Parking Lot
1. Grid-tied solar electric on barn, Energy Star home
2. Grid-tied solar electric, stone house, efficient appliances, hybrid car
3. Passive solar Energy Star home on river, solar electric being installed
4. Passive solar, super-insulated homePyrites Tour - 1 pm Leave from the Canton P&C Supermarket Parking Lot
(Led by Bryan Lee who designed and built most of these homes. This one fills up fast, so if you want to be on it, get to the Fair at 9 am Saturday!)
1. Unique passive solar design, super-insulated home, grid-tied solar with battery back-up
2. Round strawbale with passive solar elements
3. Unique passive solar design, super-insulated home with masonry stove and earthen floor
4. Passive solar, super-insulated home, off-grid solar electricPotsdam Tour - 1 pm Leave from the Village Parking Lot across from the Roxy Theater
1. Grid-tied solar electric in the village
2. Grid-tied solar and wind, efficient passive solar A-frame home
3. Grid-tied solar, Energy Star home with passive solar design, in floor wood boiler heatParrishville/Colton Tour - 9:30 am, Leave from the Canton P&C Supermarket Parking Lot
1. Strawbale house with passive solar design and off-grid solar electric
2. Strawbale home
3. Energy Star home with passive solar design
4. Retrofit older home with off-grid solar electric, wind, biodiesel generator, super efficient DC refrigerator, washer and wring dryer, creative hot water system, biodiesel vehicles and more (Crazy Jerry Bartlett)Off-Grid Tour 1 pm Leave from the Canton P&C Supermarket parking lot
1. Passive solar strawbale, off-grid solar
2. Non-electric farm using horse-energy and buggy, super insulated home, windmill-powered water pumping system
3. Passive solar, super-insulated home with off-grid solar electric powering both home and woodworking shop
4. Passive solar home, off-grid solar electric and hydro-electric systemsJefferson Country Tour - 1 pm Meet just off southbound Exit 43 on Rt. 81 about 5 miles south of Watertown exits.
1. Woodhenge - An Off-Grid Community. Round, cordwood masonry and papercrete home with passive solar, off-grid solar electric and wind power, many creative and unusual systems for heating, etc. and some amazing recycled materials, such as a home made from a 10,000 gallon oil tank, large unusual garden, too.
2. Converted barn passive solar homeGALLERY OF SOME HOMES ON THE TOURS
