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Practical Preservation Podcast Featuring Rabbit Goody of Thistle Hill Weavers

Leave a Comment / help for historic homeowners, Historic Preservation, Historic preservation and restoration education, Historic Preservation Projects, Historic Rehabilitation, Historic Restoration, Historic Wood Windows, Historical Aesthetics, historical fabrics, home interiors, importance of interiors, Materials, Passive heating and cooling, Practical Preservation Podcast, Preservation and Sustainability, Preservation Education, Preservation in the News, Products Materials and Methods, Resources for Historic Restorations, Sustainability, Tradespeople, Traditional and Vernacular, weaving, Women in Preservation / By Laura Kise

Rabbit Goody, owner, designer, and master weaver of Thistle Hill Weavers, joined the Practical Preservation podcast to discuss information about her background in weaving, and museum curation and consultation. We covered a multitude of topics including: Rabbit’s interwoven skill-sets and background, starting with her intuitive skills as a teen-aged weaver, and her academic backgrounds in …

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Preservation and Sustainability

Leave a Comment / Greening your historic home, Passive heating and cooling, Preservation and Sustainability, Rehabilitation, Renewable energy, Salvaged materials, Sustainability / By Danielle Keperling

Preservation and sustainability. What does one have to do with the other? If we examine these terms more closely, we can see that older buildings are inherently “green” or sustainable because of “embodied energy” (all of the energy used to build the building that would need to be expended to build something else). In fact, …

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Practical Preservation Podcast Featuring Craig Meyer of UNICO

Leave a Comment / Historic Preservation, Historic Rehabilitation, Historic Restoration, HVAC, Indoor Air Quality, Maintaining Historic Buildings, Passive heating and cooling, Practical Preservation Podcast, retrofitting / By Laura Kise

Craig Meyer, of the UNICO System, joined the Practical Preservation podcast to discuss information about the company’s history and current business in HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning). We covered a multitude of topics including: His background in marketing, business development, and engineering UNICO’s inception as a family-owned contracting business and American success-story with more …

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