The Design District
Buy your tickets now: Goal Net Zero Home Tour
I’m a self-admitted house junkie, who loves touring new and remodeled homes (Sunday open houses are my weakness). So I’m nerdily excited about Solar Oregon’s Net Zero Home tour, which features four Oregon homes (new and remodeled) that are on the cutting edge of solar energy.
It’s Saturday May 3 (yeah, kind of far away, but I like giving you advanced notice) and is sponsored by Portland’s Office of Sustainable Development.
The tour is actually a day-long event, from 9 am until 5 pm. It begins and ends at the McMenamins Kennedy School gymnasium, 5736 NE 33rd Ave.
Here are the day’s events:
9-10 am – Meet industry leaders and home owners striving for Zero Net Energy use. Learn how tax credits can offset the cost of renewable energy systems.
10 am – 12 pm – Workshop by Christopher Dymond, energy analyst for the Oregon Department of Energy, called “Zero Net Energy and High Performance Homes.”
12-1 pm – Catered lunch
1-5 pm – Tour of homes. You’ll be shuttled to four Portland homes, each with different designs and approaches to reaching net zero energy. (By the way, AIA continuing education credits are available and CEUs for other professionals can be arranged.)
Interested? Tickets are $100 (buy them here) and all proceeds support Solar Oregon in its mission to provide solar energy education and community outreach. Space is limited to 100 people, so buy tickets early!
(But don’t fret if it sells out: Michael VanDerwater from Solar Oregon tells me that they are offering a Net Zero workshop a few weeks after the tour in case this sells out. It’ll be a two-and-a-half hour workshop without the tour of homes. Sadly that take away the most-fun part, but it’ll still be interesting, I’m sure.)
