Applications for REAP Grants or Loans for the fiscal year of 2018 are due on April 30th. The next deadline is in October and will be for consideration for the following fiscal year. There is still time to complete your application and we'd be happy to help you! The first steps are to check your business eligibility, enroll with SAM and obtain your D-U-N-S #. These will take you about 10 minutes and will be your "welcome to bureaucracy" exercise. After that, Responsible House

Exciting News ~ We just learned our business address is eligible for a REAP Grant!!!!! In researching to write this blog post, I casually entered our business/residential address and learned that we have an eligible address. Through the USDA, agricultural or businesses in a rural area can receive grants and loans for energy efficiency projects. We are thrilled to think we might have just gotten a little closer to making our solar and energy efficiency dreams come true. You ca

As much as we love retrofitting homes to make them more energy efficient, there is quite a thrill in building from the ground up because we can build them tighter than we can ever fix them (unless you want us to strip you down to the framing and redo your foundation!). Here is a countdown of the 3 houses we've built with jaw-droppingly low "air exchanges per hour." (under pressure) #3 Nelson County Cottage 1.5 Architect: Frazier Associates Photo Credit: Kevin Blackburn This a