Building and remodeling using sustainable practices and materials has become attractive for many reasons. Homeowners benefit from reduced energy bills, a high-quality structure that's easy to maintain, and a comfortable and healthy place in which to live.
The resources below are designed to point you in the right direction for going green at home!
Residential Green Construction and Remodeling
Check out this LEED Platinum Home in Madison!
Discover a very cool home designed by a well-respected and newly Madison-based architect, Carol Richard. Carol is the founding partner of Richard Wittschiebe Hand, a popular woman-owned Atlanta architecture firm moved back to her hometown of Madison. Carol designed her ultra-green home with her mechanical engineer husband, Fred. Carol and Fred have blogged about moving to Madison, the construction process, then launched a website to educate people about the green strategies they used. They are very much interested in helping other people green their homes!
Building a Green Home
Certification Programs: Energy Star,
GreenBuilt Home,
LEED for Homes
Remodeling Green
Programs: GreenBuilt Home, Green Home Guide
Tips: This Old House
Landscaping: Wildscaping
Products and Providers
Library of Sustainability, GreenSeal, Good to Be Green
Rebates and Incentives
Wisconsin, Federal Tax Rebates
Library of Sustainability at the Urban Ecology Center(Milwaukee)
The Libary of Sustainability is a multi-function library of sustainable materials and systems information housed at the Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee and the first comprehensive resource center of its type in Wisconsin! A joint effort of Solterra Studios, Pragmatic Construction, WGBA, and Outpost Natural Foods, this library provides information to the public on the importance of building green, as well as raises the awareness of, and requests for, sustainable healthy building products.
USGBC announces REGREEN Program
The USGBC is teaming with the American Society of Interior Designers in a program creating green residential home remodeling guidelines. A draft of the REGREEN program and more information can be found through the above web link.