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Useful Links

To assist in your green remodeling research, please visit these web sites.

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR, sponsored by Southface, offers a comprehensive approach to home improvement, remodeling, and renovation that will make your home more efficient and reduce energy costs, while improving indoor air quality and creating a more comfortable, healthier home. At the same time, you'll be helping to protect the environment through energy conservation.

GreenBuildingAdvisor.com is the only online resource that offers a complete package of information needed to design, build, and remodel energy-efficient, healthy homes.

So, if you’re a:

• Builder 
• Architect or designer 
• Remodeler 
• Knowledgeable homeowner 
• Interior Designer 
• Building inspector or code official 
• Subcontractor 
• Tradesperson 
• Do-it-yourselfer 
• Building science researcher or academic 
• Housing policy expert 
• Green professional 
• Building product manufacturer . . .
  . . . then this site was designed for you and is made up of a community of folks who share your interests and possess enviable knowledge and experience in green building.

EarthCraft House™, created in 1999, is a residential green building program of the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association in partnership with Southface. This program serves as a blueprint for energy- and resource -efficient homes.

The U.S. Green Building Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings available to everyone within a generation. This is the place to:

• Certify your green building
• Join USGBC as an organization
• Join a chapter as an individual
• Sign up for courses and workshops
• Purchase LEED Reference Guides 
• Learn about Greenbuild 2009
• Sign up for e-newsletters
• Become a LEED AP
• Learn about green building

Not So Big House Bestselling author, architect and cultural visionary Sarah Susanka is leading a movement to redefine the American home and lifestyle. Her "build better, not bigger" approach to residential architecture has been embraced across the country and her "Not So Big" philosophy is evolving beyond our physical habitations and into how we inhabit our lives. In both realms she believes that Not So Big should be the first step in sustainability, both for our own well being and for the well being of the planet as a whole.

The Voice of the Housing Industry, National Association of Home Builders, web site is designed for those interested in home building and the industry - it contains resources for both members and consumers.

BuildingGreen brings the best research, thinking, and writing to you through many publications, including Environmental Building News, the GreenSpec directory of green products, and the BuildingGreen Suite of online tools.

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