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A guide to planning a healthy, environmentally friendly new home

Alex Wilson

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Product # 071283
Type Paperback
ISBN 978-0-86571-555-4
Published Date 2008
Dimensions 8 3/8 x 10 15/16
Pages 392

Are you thinking about building a new home? Or just beginning to put together a plan?

Maybe you're a builder or designer -- and the lion's share of your clients are now interested in building green.

Here's a single book that delivers everything you need to know about building a safe, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly home.

Brought to you by Alex Wilson -- the country's foremost expert on this topic -- Your Green Home offers a wealth of practical, up-to-the-minute information on every facet of green building.

In terms of environmental impact, budget and comfort, the author demonstrates how making the right design choices can help you make sure your green home performs exactly as you intended.

Here are some of the field-tested, sustainable solutions you?ll find to some of your big-picture challenges:

Finding the right designer and builder
Deciding where to build
Understanding building systems
Energy-efficient building design
Renewable energy systems
Selection of products and materials
Indoor environmental quality
Water efficiency
Reducing construction waste
Environmental landscaping and plantings
Costs of green building
Living in a green home

With this comprehensive -- yet eminently readable -- guidebook by your side, you'll have all the advice you need to design and build a house that's truly green.

About the author
For over 25 years, Alex Wilson has written about energy-efficient and environmentally responsible design and construction. He is currently the Executive Editor of Environmental Building News. In 1985, he started his own company, now Building Green LLC.

Alex is also co-author of the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings and the Rocky Mountain Institute's comprehensive textbook, Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate.

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