'Passive Solar Greenhouse Design Pt 2/3: Heating, Glazing and Ventilating Greenhouses'

23:55 May 19, 2021
'Your passive solar greenhouse can mimic, and grow plants from a variety of climate zones, IF you design it to. You can grow food from a mediterranean climate, even in a cold climate! Learn how in this series of 3 videos!  In part 2 of this 3 part series on how to design your passive solar greenhouse, Rob Avis describes how to design the ventilation, heating and glazing of a passive solar greenhouse.   0:00 Greenhouse foundation  1:54 Knee wall  & Ventilation 4:20 Ventilation design 5:24 Glazing 7:13 CRITICAL grazing rule! 7:32 Light 10:27 Insulation 12:04 Vapor control critical 13:28 R-Values 15:54 Thermal mass 17:54 Thermal mass rules of thumb  23:52 Subterranean heating and cooling system 23:51 Heating  Passive Solar Greenhouse design 3 part video series:  • Part 1: Design your greenhouse to mimic the climate and grow the plants you want https://youtu.be/4-ivA6fh7oo  • Part 2: Heating, Glazing and Ventilating Greenhouses (you are here)  • Part 3:  (July 22, 2019)    Buy the greenhouse design tool: https://vergepermaculture.ca/passive-solar-greenhouse     About Rob Avis and Verge Permaculture: In less than 10 years, Rob & Michelle Avis left Calgary’s oil fields and retooled his engineering career to help clients and students design integrated systems for shelter, energy, water, waste and food, all while supporting local economy and regenerating the land.  He’s now leading the next wave of permaculture education, teaching career-changing professionals to become eco-entrepreneurs with successful regenerative businesses. Learn more and connect with Rob & Michelle at https://vergepermaculture.ca/  FREE RESOURCES: As a special gift when you subscribe to our newsletter is that we’ll send you the link to download our drop-dead-gorgeous Blog Book: 50 breathtaking magazine-style pages of our most popular blog posts and articles over the past five years, from permaculture ABCs to property-buying, home design, eco-investing, and community retrofitting. Sign-up: http://bit.ly/2Dqjg5G    Why should you reserve a place in your bulging in-box for Verge’s newsletters? One reason: because we challenge the headlines and cultural paradigms with a whole different kind of alternative fact: Permaculture-inspired businesses can succeed – and restore the planet. And we’ll show you how to do it.' 

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