Rain Garden
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Seattle’s Pioneering RainWise Program
Homeowners get help in developing rain gardens and cisterns, limiting the amount of polluted runoff
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Teenagers Build an Affordable LEED Platinum Home
Betsy Pettit, GBA advisor and consultant to this project, points out that we’re in a dynamic time. “Push the envelope,” she remarks, “because what’s new now will be normal sooner…
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The Perfect Potager
A Wormherder’s Microfarm
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Craftsmanship and Recycling in a Tudor Renovation
The airy, light-filled renovation of this 1930s stucco Spanish Tudor house in Georgetown, Massachusetts, is packed with eco-friendly features even though no green certification program was enlisted. A new bay,…
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New, Affordable, and Green in a Historic Neighborhood
#A Local Organization Builds Practical Homes That Fit in with Others Nearby Over the past two years, this group of affordable two-family homes in Blacksburg, Virginia, won numerous green building…