Thermal / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Gabion walls are retaining walls built by stacking stone in a gabion cage or gabion basket that can serve many purposes but are most often used to create tiered or leveled ground in gardens.  They are rectangular baskets of metallic lattice filled with stones and their origin dates back to war times when they were erec...

...thermal collection is quite simple; it can be passive solar home design, or solar air heaters or solar thermal water heaters. Heat can easily be stored in thermal mass (also known as a thermal battery), which is nothing high tech – concrete, water, stone, wood, etc., are all examples of thermal mass. As a general rule,...