NO SALES. JUST SCIENCE.
You know what’s annoying? Asking for help and getting a sales pitch.
Or getting the runaround.
Or being pressured to buy something you don’t need or want.
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Terrawatt is here for one reason: to help you and your home get along. I want you to be friends with your home. I want you to like it, to be proud of it, and for it to be your refuge – not a source of stress.
I woke up to resource efficiency in the mid-’90s as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zimbabwe. An Agricultural Extension officer said to me, “Reid! I have something for you!” It was a “stoven,” a collection of metal parts that formed the skeleton of what’s now known as a rocket stove.
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A rocket stove uses less wood – so children didn’t need to spend as much time gathering it. That gave them more time for schoolwork and for play.
By using less wood, deforestation was slowed.
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But best of all, cooking was cleaner. The stoven not only didn’t produce much smoke, but exhausted everything through a chimney. Houses didn’t fill up with smoke anymore. This was my introduction to indoor air quality, and when I realized that houses can be cleaner, easier, healthier, smarter…and simpler. That’s how our houses should work. Make them more comfortable, and good things come along for the ride – like lower energy bills and healthier air.
Since then, I’ve worked for the most visited museum in the world, built a carbon-neutral one-room schoolhouse, visited more than thousand homes…and fixed hundreds. If it can work for a mud hut in the African bush, it can work for you. Is your home next? Are you tired of contractors who guess with your money? See what I do, or call. And know that it’ll be me that picks up the phone – with no sales, no runaround, and no pressure. Except maybe on Halloween. I love Halloween.
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