A green home uses less energy, less water and more natural resources to create less waste, less toxins and less greenhouse emissions to produce a healthier environment to live and grow in.

Green means monitoring our collective head-long use of limited resources for homes and businesses without regard for their impact on the environment. It means more comfortable heathlier homes that are free of toxins and conserve as much energy and water as they consume. It means rethinking our choices.

Green means healthier office buildings where employees feel better and work smarter. It means higher productivity, higher morale and fewer sick days.  It means a commercial office building where vacancies go down and rental rates go up.

"meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

How does it do all that?

1. Conserve water use through use reduction and recapture systems
2. Conserve energy through use reduction, energy efficient appliances, solar panels,  CFL bulbs, kill switchs, site orientation, green roofs, wall and roof insulation, windows,
3. Clean up toxins with low voc paints, natural flooring and green materials in furniture, countertops, cabinets, adhesives and adhearents, insulation, bedding to name a few... please send me everyything I missed and we will make this list huge!!