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Slideshow: Reinventing the JP Green House 1

For the last year and a half, Ken Ward and Andrée Zaleska have been rehabbing a 100-year-old former neighborhood store in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. They’re converting it into a home for their combined family, a community gathering place, and a zero-carbon demonstration home to inspire others—and sharing their journey in the special series Coming Home: Chronicling the (re)invention of the JP Green House.

The firm overseeing the project, Placetailor, specializes in creating homes on the Passive House model, in which supertight insulation and careful use of passive solar create a building that requires no heating source. The JP Green House will be one of the first Passive House rehabs in the U.S. Photographer Leise Jones has documented the work of as it progresses, and shares some of her images here.

Andrée Zaleska is the co-founder of the JP Green House, and a community organizer who works for the Institute of Policy Studies. More information about the JP Green House can be found at jpgreenhouse.org.

Ken Ward is a climate campaigner and carpenter whose work can be see here.

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Series Intro
In which we chronicle the creation of a groundbreaking eco-home 5
How we found 133 Bourne St., and how we almost lost it 3
Fighting climate chaos with a hammer and a heart 4
Getting to know the neighborhood -- through its trash 0
Fourth of July musings on symbols, patriotism, and identity 3
You and me and a billion tiny spores 6
Treasure hunting during building demo 1
Love in a time of cataclysm 5
The amazing promise and many challenges of passivhaus construction 4
Should Kuba have a puppy? 19
Puppies and bunnies and carnivorous eco-curmudgeons 7
The fight to save childhood 8
Therapy on the Titanic 4
Roselle's Rollicking Tale & Moral of the Story 0
The best part about climate change 1
Eve of Destruction (New Millennium) 5
Simple people 6
Slideshow: Reinventing the JP Green House 1
Home Economics of the JP Green House, Part 1 0
Climate deniers, hold your fire! 22
Take a walk through the JP Green House [video] 0
Top 10 worst Christmas gifts 0
JP Green House intern dines with construction crew 0
How to talk to your friends about climate change 8
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