Table of Contents

So You Want to Build a Green Home; Finding the Help You Need; Where to Build; Home Design -- General Issues; The Structural Building System; Energy Efficient Design; Making Use of Renewable Energy; Materials and Products for Green Building; Creating a Safe Indoor Environment; Water -- Respecting and Conserving This Splendid Resource; Dealing with Construction Waste; Landscaping and Planting; Costs of Building Green; Living in Your Green Home; Index.

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A guide to designing and building the environmentally friendly, energy efficient home of your dreams.

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.