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Your Green Home: A Guide to Planning a Healthy, Environmentally Friendly, New Home Paperback - 2006

by Alex Wilson

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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.

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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.

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  • Title Your Green Home: A Guide to Planning a Healthy, Environmentally Friendly, New Home
  • Author Alex Wilson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada
  • Publication date September 30, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780865715554 / 0865715556
  • Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Home Improvement / Construction
  • Library of Congress subjects Dwellings - Energy conservation, Green products
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007310535
  • Dewey Decimal Code 690.804

About the author

Alex Wilson is president of BuildingGreen, Inc. and serves as executive editor of Environmental Building News, a monthly newsletter on environmentally responsible building design and construction, and as coeditor of the GreenSpec(R) product directory.
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