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Building Green in a Black and White world

As a builder, your customers trust you to turn their largest investment into the best homes possible. This book empowers you to start building homes that make a difference to both your customers and the environment. Green building is the market for the future.

 

The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Independent, Environmental Homes

A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Independent, Environmental Homes.
 
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Comfortable, affordable shelter that doesn't harm the environment
By Andy Summa

An environmentally friendly house can provide years of safe, clean living, and it can provide owners a peace of mind.

Enertia Building Systems designs homes of strength, economy and beauty, and its homes are designed around a pollution-free energy: inertia, a property that transfers and holds energy.

Enertia homes utilize thermal, rotational, or electrical inertia. For example, summer thermal buildup can be stored, and shifted to fill winter thermal needs. Daytime solar power can be used to fill night-time needs. No fuel or pollution is involved.

“The basic goal of environmental architecture is simple: attractive, comfortable, affordable shelter that does no harm to the Earth in its manufacture, or its use,” said Michael Sykes, Enertia founder and owner. “Pollution from the heating and cooling of buildings exceeds that from cars, even in America. We just don't see it, except maybe from the chimneys of an older city on a cold Winter day. It happens at the power plant, and where the materials are made.”

Enertia gets maximum use of renewable building materials and minimum use of non-renewable materials like brick, steel or vinyl.

The Enertia Home has been named one of the most innovative structures of the 20th century by the American Wood Preservers Institute in Fairfax, Va.

Enertia-designed homes are independent, sustainable, environmental homes, similar to the ones used years ago, homes in Eastern North America, Northern Europe, Russia, and Japan. Similarly designed economical homes built more than 500 years ago are still used in Scandinavia.

For more information, check out www.enertia.com.

Andy Summa is a freelance writer in Sugar Land, Texas.

 

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Learn to look for and recognize the Smartwood seal of approval.

SmartWood Certified Forestry

By buying Smartwood products you are promoting sustainable forestry and help shift demand away from destructive forestry practices. With hundreds of products available, from flooring and furniture to musical instruments it is easy to support a greener economy. Look for them. Use this handy Smartwood finder any time you need wood products.


Building Checklist

Click HERE to read the 38 great guidelines found in buildinggreen.com's Checklist for Environmentally Responsible Design and Construction.
 

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