Along with heating with wood at home, we rely on heating oil, burning it in this Buderus boiler. Photo: Alex Wilson. Click on image to enlarge.
Heating with wood pellets, such as with this freestanding Quadrafire Mt. Vernon pellet stove at our own house, can be the greenest option, since wood pellets are a renewable heating fuel. Photo: Alex Wilson. Click on image to enlarge.

Our new report, Green Building Product Certifications: Getting What You Need, covers every relevant certification in the field. But of course, as we all know, things keep changing. To ensure you have correct and current information, this errata covers all updates, corrections, and clarifications that we know of to date.

When my husband and I attended the first Solar Decathlon in 2002 with our one-year-old and his newborn brother, we (and our massive double stroller) traveled downtown on the subway.

EonCoat is a two-part corrosion-resistant, ceramic paint that is highly durable, fireproof, and 100% VOC-free. Photo: EonCoat, LLC. Click on image to enlarge
If heat loss through your roof is going to melt snow and cause ice dams, use a snow rake to clear the snow. Here's my wife raking our roof after last week's snowstorm. Photo: Alex Wilson. Click on image to enlarge
Prototype Greensulate insulation grown from seed hulls and fungal mycellium. Photo: Ecovative Design. Click on image to enlarge.
Significant price fluctuation has been the rule with crude oil and gasoline for the past several years. As the economy picks up, many experts predict higher oil prices during 2011. Graph: Wall Street Cheat Sheet. Click on image to enlarge.

New, improved guidelines from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about how to deal with a broken compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) are intended to take some of the mystery out of the purchase and use of CFLs. But by suggesting a response that borders on Hazmat lockdown, the guidelines may potentially add to consumers' uncertainties.

Knight Wall System's GI-Girt rainscreen supports a variety of cladding option and provides continuous insulation across the exterior of steel framed buildings. Photo: Knight Wall Systems.
In oil refineries crude oil is distilled into fractions that provide our major fuels and other petroleum products. Photo: BP. Click on image on enlarge.
A Minneapolis Blower Door with DG-700 instrumentation kit. Photo: The Energy Conservatory. Click on image to enlarge.