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From Bleeding Edge to Leading Edge

“I’ve done complicated. It’s complicated.” Residential and commercial buildings account for 17% of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. In the United States, that figure is roughly 29%. Net Zero homes, which produce at least as much energy as they consume, will play a key role in the current global climate crisis by drastically reducing energy consumption in the housing sector. Doug Tarry is a leading international authority on Net Zero homes. His company, Doug Tarry Homes Limited, has certified more Net Zero / Net Zero Ready homes (over 500 and counting) than any other builder in Canada. The title of Doug’s book, “From Bleeding Edge to Leading Edge: A Builders Guide to Net Zero Homes”, refers to his complicated and sometimes painful journey to Net Zero. Throughout the book, Doug offers his first-hand experience on what has worked and what hasn’t in building Net Zero homes, along with expert advice from some of the industry’s leading builders, building scientists and energy consultants. Much has been written about the technical details of building high-performance homes – the “what”. This book goes further and deals with the “why” and the “how”, discussing topics such as holistic design, embodied carbon, the Four Principals of Modern Design, the 100-year home, and climate resiliency. Written in plain language and infused with humor and storytelling, this book is a must-read for builders, renovators, architects, municipal officials, industry stakeholders and home buyers - anyone interested in the future of home building. It will help builders and their teams get to Net Zero in less time, with far less cost and pain.

Mech

Cobol, with Love

Matt joins that small group of computer programmers in an automobile company to help them manage their projects. He is soon investigating an allegation that the group had sent misleading information about the company to a government agency. Before he can even realize it, he is learning a programming language to understand how things went wrong. Despite these troubled times, Matt finds a special person becoming a part of his life. Burdened with the pain of the divorce of his parents, Kavitha's friendship is quite a palliative to him. She herself is no less disillusioned with relationships. Together, they try to understand that exotic institution called marriage, and why it struggles to survive in modern times. Their jobs also lead them into the political twists of their corporate world. Cobol, with Love shows the inner workings of the ubiquitous world of 'computer programmers' and exposes the crime, corruption, and nepotism lurking in that mysterious world.