
{"id":3457,"date":"2008-09-18T07:57:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T15:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2008-09-18T07:57:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T15:57:51","slug":"local-builder%e2%80%99s-home-to-be-featured-on-planet-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/09\/18\/local-builder%e2%80%99s-home-to-be-featured-on-planet-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Local builder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home to be featured on Planet Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/marcoploshouse.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/marcoploshouse-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Mark Marcoplos. The home of local builder Mark Marcoplos will be featured on Planet Green for its energy-efficient design.\" title=\"marcoploshouse\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" align=\"left\" size-medium wp-image-3458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/marcoploshouse-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/marcoploshouse.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><strong>By Jack Carley<\/strong><em><br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The home of a local green builder is featured on a television show this week. Renovation Nation, which airs on the Planet Green channel, will present builder Mark Marcoplos\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Orange County home this week, showing off the house\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s green features.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nMarcoplos\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 house, which he completed in 2001, was designed with a variety of green efficiency features, including solar power and water heating, a cooling system that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t require mechanical air conditioning and wood reused from the old Internationalist Books building, which Marcoplos Construction deconstructed in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Marcoplos said of the filming, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was wild.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It takes a lot of hard work to make a TV show.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Marcoplos built the house, about eight miles west of Carrboro, with help from his wife Wanda and sons Dakota and Riley. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was pretty grueling,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said of the building process, but \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it was satisfying to see the design manifest.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He describes the green features of the house as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cutting edge, but simple\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and says that the green features incorporate both new technology and straightforward design principles.<\/p>\n<p>His favorite feature, he says, is the cooling system, which doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t require mechanical air conditioning. The house is designed to reduce heat energy from the sun and appliances and then channel heat, using well-placed fans and different ceiling heights, to the tower atop the house where it can be released outside.<\/p>\n<p>The hour-long show premiered yesterday (Wednesday) but will be shown again. Check your local listings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-land-and-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}