Green Your Home with Ease
Resource List from Nelda’s Green-Building Talks
1. Build It Green
2. United States Green Building Council
3. buildgreennow.org
4. stopwaste.org
5. bayfriendly.org
6. California Invasive Plant Council
7. bewaterwise.com
8. darksky.org

Reuse of building materials:
1. buildingresources.org
2. thereusepeople.org
3. craigslist.org
4. California Integrated Waste Management Board
5. freecycle.org
6. Seattle’s salvage and Reuse Guide
7. ohmegasalvage.com
8. urbanore.org
9. Molly Samietz – Appraiser of building
materials; molly@samietzappraisals.com
(650)226-3234

Passive Solar
1. U.S. Department of Energy Passive Solar Guide

Building Energy performance evaluations:
1. garrengroup.com Energy audits of your
home.
2. AC Home Performance Cara Wahl – achp@earthlink.net
3. calcerts.com
4. California Building Performance Association
5. California Home Energy Efficiency Rating Services
6. Build It Green will also have resources.

News on Greener Building

Europe’s ban on incandescent bulbs
Power-Hungry Flat Screen TVs

Green Cleaning
planetgreen.discovery.com/gogreen/greencleaning/

Crawl spaces:
crawlspaces.org
buildingscience.com

Energy Star Appliances and other energy sites:
energystar.gov
eere.energy.gov/consumer
energytaxincentives.org