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Design- While home energy costs are on the rise, homeowners can save energy and money with high-performance windows.
- There are a number of flooring alternatives for your home that feature environmentally friendly attributes without sacrificing style.
- Contaminants in house dust are an important source of exposure that can be reduced by good design, good flooring choices, and good cleaning practices.
- Three viewpoints of designing a healthy building include: the importance of sustainable development, the role of occupants for ensuring indoor air quality, and ongoing developments related to indoor finishes with low chemical emissions and good fungal resistance.
- In early 2007 Kevin and Kathy Christopherson set about building a home in Hanover, Wisconsin. This was no ordinary new home construction, though. Since Kathy has an acute chemical sensitivity, special precautions were necessary – precautions that presented some particularly challenging construction issues.
- HHI Staff and EverydayHealth.com give simple tips to minimizing indoor allergy triggers.
- With green roofs growing in popularity, vertical gardening with the use of tube planters saves water and uses unconventional space.
- Simran Sethi talks about her personal struggle in learning to organize and letting go of clutter.
- An innovative look at the use of native plants to create the High Line, a green roof garden in the making in New York City.
- The author shows prefabricated homes can be built with customizable, attractive, and quality green materials in less time than traditional construction, while reducing waste and yielding an energy-efficient, sturdy, and cost-effective home.
- A book about using salvaged and reclaimed materials to make homes that are affordable, unique, and environmentally-preferable.
- A book of green remodeling ideas and examples to make your home more energy efficient and healthy.
- Using the examples of 25 factory-built, green homes, the book details the benefits of prefabricated homes, including energy savings and attractiveness.
- Introduction to wind power and small-scale installation of wind energy systems.
- Rating the real payoff from 50 green home projects.
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