Nearly 500 men and women attended sessions
on topics ranging from "Detailing Today's
Envelope" to "Swedish Housing" at the
March 15-16 conference of the Quality
Building Council of the Northeast Solar
Energy Association (NESEA, formerly the
New England Solar Energy Association) in
Hartford, Conn.
The conference opened with a cheerful
welcome by Christine Donovan of NESEA,
after which Steve Bliss of Solar Age magazine
gave a brief overview of solar and energyconscious
housing in North America.
Using slides to illustrate both aesthetic and
unaesthetic examples, he presented an often
humorous portrait of Solar America. One
noteworthy slide showed a humble VW beetle
parked in front of an equally
undistinguished solar house. Bliss wryly
noted that despite the resemblance, solar