Good Green Homes

GOOD GREEN HOMES
Creating Better Homes for a Healthier Planet

Wouldn't you rather have a green home — a home that's comfortable yet has low energy bills, a home that's as easy on the eyes as it is on the environment, a home that's healthier for you and your family?

Ideal for homeowners, remodelers, renters, architects, builders and interior designers, Good Green Homes lays out the key steps to creating a green home, providing a wealth of inspiration and practical advice.

What's green got to do with your home? Green building simply means being smart about the building products and furnishings you choose and the energy and water you use, so that you can live well without damaging the environment.

But creating a good green home isn't just about conservation, about using less or saving more. It's about making your home better — healthier to live in, easier on the environment, more valuable over the long-term, and more delightful to come home to.

Showcased homes include an eco-friendly addition to a historic home, an artist's studio on a wooded island, a wine country retreat, a neighborhood of homes that are small in size but large in spirit, a resourcefully remodeled Victorian, and more.

Lavishly illustrated with more than 150 color photos, Good Green Homes is the ultimate guide for people who want to live in comfortable, beautiful, healthy, eco-friendly homes.

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What they're saying about Good Green Homes

"How do you build an environmentally benign house that doesn't contribute to the desecration of the planet? A good place to start looking for answers is Jennifer Roberts's Good Green Homes. Although the author clearly knows a lot about the subject, she has pared it down to a manageable amount for the general reader... Roberts offers plenty of sensible advice." — Washington Post

"Whether you're buying a new house, remodeling an old one, or starting from scratch, you'll not only need lots of green but you should also think about being green. With plenty of photos, this book covers the environmentally sensitive approach to the aforementioned areas, while also providing a superb introduction to the concept of green building." — Dwell

"An A-Z guide to green home design and materials, including those used in the kitchen." — Bon Appetit

"A new book, elegant enough for a coffee table, offers solid information on energy-efficient building along with a gallery's worth of photographs to inspire getting started." — Home Energy

"...includes concise prose outlining the basic issues, checklists of more detailed information (Good Green Recommendations), and beautifully illustrated home profiles. A useful glossary and listings of some of the more useful resources round out the quick-to-read book. Author Jennifer Roberts... has a clearly demonstrated grasp of green buildings." — Environmental Building News

"This beautifully photographed book is filled with green home profiles, information, and advice." — Natural Home

"'Gorgeous green homes' might be a more apt title. The dwellings pictured here in these color pages would be right at home in Metropolitan Home. The variety of styles included proves that building green is an option no matter what your taste... Even if you aren't out to save the planet, you'll fall for these dishy dwellings." — Kansas City Star

"The book is a photo-filled introduction to green ideas for building and remodeling, in which Roberts makes the case that what is most environmentally responsible in homes can also be most comfortable." — Chicago Tribune

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Good Green Homes
by Jennifer Roberts
photos by Linda Svendsen

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2003, $39.95 Hardcover,
ISBN: 1-58685-179-9, 8.5x10 inches,
160 pages, 159 color photos

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