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A Guide to Planning a Healthy, Environmentally Friendly, New Home By Alex Wilson 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. Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series. About the Contributor(s) 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® product directory. He consults and lectures widely on sustainable design and serves as Secretary of the board of directors of the U.S. Green Building Council. Prior to starting his own company in 1985 (now Building-Green), he was executive director of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association for five years; and in the late '70s, he taught workshops on passive solar design and construction in New Mexico. Alex has written about energy-efficient and environmentally responsible design and construction for more than 25 years and is author, coauthor or editor of several books and manuals, including Greening Federal Facilities (U.S. Dept. of Energy), The Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings (ACEEE, 8th edition, 2003) and the Rocky Mountain Institute's comprehensive textbook Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate (John Wiley & Sons, 1998). He has also written hundreds of articles for other publications, including Fine Homebuilding, Architectural Record, The Construction Specifier, Landscape Architecture, and Popular Science. Alex is a trustee of the Vermont Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.