minneAppleseed will present the Appleseed House Project and building site research tomorrow, Thursday 11/13/2008, at the Hawthorne neighborhood board meeting. The meeting will be held at the community building at Farview Park, at the intersection of 29th and Lyndale Avenue North at 7 PM. Directions
minneAppleseed is on the agenda for tonight’s Hawthorne Neighborhood Council Housing Committee meeting. The meeting will be held at the Farview Park building at 7 PM. minneAppleseed is scheduled to present at 8.30 PM. Click here for directions.
Please join us for this week’s minneAppleseed meeting at Papa’s Pizza in North Minneapolis at 11.30 AM. The focus of this meeting will be on community aspects. Please click for directions.
Joel and I took photos of the context in the Eco Village this morning. The images are labeled according to location. Please use this link to download them if you need to. (right click: download linked file)
We’ve added a page for both the minneAppleseed Team and the Apple Seed Project on this website. You can find them under Pages in the right hand navigation of this blog.
The site photos we took in the eco-village are now available online for download. Please use this link to download them to your desktop (please right-click the link, and select “download linked file”).
Please join the group for our next meeting at Karges Faulconbridge on Friday, October 24, at 11.30 AM.
Agenda for the meeting
Greetings and updates: 15 min
Update Hawthorne Eco village: 15 min
Community updates: 10 min
Sponsorship: 15 min
Design/ engineering: 20 min 
Open item: 15 min
Send a note if you would like to add or modify our agenda.
One of the basics being addressed as part of the passive house design process is establishing a baseline of factors such as energy use and green house gas generation. The US EPA has already compiled some energy use information and conversion factors that will help in the baseline development.
Average Annual CO2 Emissions for an Average Single-Family Home:
Average CO2 emissions: 24,900 lbs/year (11.3 metric tons/ year)
Average Carbon emissions: 6,800 lbs/year (3.1 metric tons/year)
Average kWh: 11,965 kWh/ year (124 mmBtu/ year, delivered)
Source: RECS, 2001
The average single-family home adds more than twice as much greenhouse gas (CE) emissions to the atmosphere as the average passenger vehicle.
Today, Jeff Skrenes, John Harrington and I met at the Eco-Village to identify potential building sites. We identified 5 potential sites, which we will further evaluate. Find images after the break. Read the rest of this entry »