Green Design

What is Green Design? With our ever changing planet and climates, building design is following along not only to meet the needs of a home's occupants, but to ease the damage of our use to the environment. This year we saw the impact of how water, and the lack of it, affects us globally and individually. This is only one example of the depletion of natural resources. We hope and trust our water resources will return but we still need to conserve as our growing populations and ever changing climates affect how we live.

Green Building and the idea of it can take many forms and magnitudes. It can mean taking a few green building measures, such as high efficiency hot water heaters to a whole house approach, which may include building systems such as straw bale walls, cool roof systems, geo-thermal systems for heating or cooling.

As we become more familiar with these technologies and building systems, we will continue to find and appreciate not only the value to the environment, but the comfort they provide over the life of the home.