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What’s In a Green Built Home? A Guide for Homeowners

The Green Built Homes program is now over 20 years old.  Under our program’s original name: Healthy-Built Homes, we certified our first home in NC in 2002 and now, in …

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Centering Equity in Green Buildings: Marginalized Benefits Are Not Sustainable Benefits

The word benefits, for most people, is usually defined by their personal association to the word, for example through Social Security benefits or medical benefits. By merely inserting the word …

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Blueprints for Going Green: Green Built Homes Checklist Clarifies Steps to Better Building

As I sat down to plan my first duplex build as a general contractor, the vague aspiration of “building green in Asheville” became a dizzying stream of questions.  In what …

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