Amy Carter

With Earth Day fast approaching, many are looking for ways to lower their carbon footprint and save money.

We all need to use water in our homes, but are we being as efficient as possible? Water is one of our most precious resources and we should be doing all we can to use it wisely.

Imagine homes that are constructed to be super energy efficient, with attention to optimizing the details from materials, to landscape, air quality, and comfort.

Staying energy efficient in colder months IS possible. Heart of a Building has a few ideas to keep you warm and green, too!

When looking to buy a new home, most of us look for a convenient location regarding proximity to work, schools, friends, and family. We also look for how it feels to us, visual attractiveness inside and out. If you are ready to go a step further,

Your typical home will lose 25%-40% of the energy you use for heating and cooling through air leakage. Another US government source says that you can save 15% on your heating and cooling bill by air-sealing and insulating.

If you haven’t seen Heart of a Building episodes, you might not have a great idea about our work or why we work hard to bring you the projects we do. We allow people to share their “why” and their heart-centered reasons for taking such care of their

While we like to make a big deal out of building projects on the leading edge of environmentally sound techniques, we also want to make a big deal about the little things. It is those little things that can end up making a big difference. We've

Get creative when it comes to wrapping paper. Yes, it’s so festive, but it is also wasteful, especially when you consider that premium gift wrap – which often includes plastic, dyes, and foils – might not be able to be recycled. If you’re a giver,

Nantes Public Library, Gilcrest, Colorado | Nantes Public Library is a near passive house-compliant public building. The building design brought outstanding daylighting and comfort for occupants while delivering low utility bills [for the taxpayers

Thrive Vitality Homes, Denver, Colorado | Each Vitality home features luxurious architecture combined with Thrive’s trademark Zero Energy construction, LEED certification, and a focus on cleaner indoor air. Vitality Thrive Homes are production

L’Avenir Luxury Townhomes, Ft. Collins, Colorado | The L’Avenir townhomes, a 4-unit rowhome nestled next to Old Town Ft. Collins, Colorado, embodies a lifetime of design work and learning from the wife and husband team of Laurie and Bob Davis of

This episode will air on RMPBS on Sunday, November 21 at 10:00 AM (MST) and be available for streaming after that time. Check your local listings for channel or watch here. Nantes Library Episode Guide | Thrive Episode Guide This

This episode will air on RMPBS on Sunday, November 14 at 10:00 AM (MST) and be available for streaming after that time. Check your local listings for channel or watch here. L’Avenir Episode Guide | Thrive Episode Guide This near Passive

These “production built” single-family homes make zero-energy/zero-emission housing available to hundreds of home buyers every year in the Denver Metro area. Optimizing the health of the buyers via enhanced indoor air-quality, comfort and no

Paul & Michalina’s Fantastic Grand Canyon Trip NOVEMBER 2020 | Paul Kriescher, and his wife Michalina, recently finished a 2-week road-trip to/from the Grand Canyon via a camper van, rented through Escape Camper Vans, where they used the

First Universalist Church, Denver, Colorado | This community put their ‘why’ into action by honoring one of the central tenets of their faith —“respect the interdependent web of all existence” — with a large-scale renovation of their existing

The developer and buyer were committed to delivering sustainability through the housing. Con Frank is a builder who needed to ‘prove it could be done.’

Greenspire Apartments, Longmont, Colorado | Greenspire is Colorado’s first Passive House-inspired apartment building, providing 44 healthy, affordable studio apartments built with the heart-centered “why” of leaving the world a better place for