Your Green Home

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Alex Wilson "Your Green Home: A Guide to Planning a Healthy, Environmentally Friendly New Home"
New Society Publishers | 2006-06-01 | ISBN: 0865715556 | 256 pages | PDF | 2,9 MB

More
and more homeowners today want houses that are healthy to live in and
cause minimal damage to the environment. That's what green building is
all about.
Your Green Home is written for homeowners planning a new home-whether
you are working with an architect or builder, or serving as your own
general contractor. Intended to improve the overall environmental
performance of new houses being built, the book sets out to answer some
of the big-picture questions relating to having a home designed and
built-and getting what you want.
Your Green Home covers:
Home location and its relationship to the community
Site design
Construction systems
Building design to optimize energy performance
Renewable energy systems
Material selection
Indoor environmental quality
Water efficiency
Material selection
Written by the founder of BuildingGreen-North America's premier green
building authority-this book will prove useful not only to future
homeowners, but also to designers and builders seeking to meet this
demand. Building professionals well-versed in green building may find
this a useful book to give to potential clients to convey the scope and
principles of green building.
Alex Wilson is president of BuildingGreen, Inc. and executive editor of
Environmental Building News, the oldest and most respected publication
serving North America's green building industry. A green building
expert since the 1970s, he has authored countless articles on the topic
and several books, including Green Building Products, the Consumer
Guide to Home Energy Savings, and Green Development: Integrating
Ecology and Real Estate.

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