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Green Home Building

A comprehensive guide to building green on any budget.

According to conventional wisdom, building a green home is an expensive endeavor. The standard approach treats green as an add-on, tacking "premium" products, finishes, and equipment onto a traditional home design. As a result, many green home projects end up over budget or fail to achieve their environmental and performance goals.

Green Home Building explodes the myth that green homes have to cost more. Using proven methods based on applied building science, the authors show how to:

  • Lower base construction costs to provide funding for high performance upgrades

  • Achieve a net-zero energy home, including "zero-ing" water, waste, carbon, and associated costs within fifteen years

  • Live affordably into the future, despite anticipated rising costs for fuel, water, materials, taxes, and health care

    This comprehensive guide to building green on any budget…