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HELPFUL LINKS

Here are some great links from various Local, State and National organizations that help to explain the benefits and virtues of green building and remodeling.

   

  • Benefits of Owning a Green Home
  • How Homes Become Green
  • National Association of Home Builders
  • Energy Star Homes
  • Energy Star Home Improvement
  • GreenBuildingTalk
  • Catawba County's Green Initiatives
  • Greater Hickory Green Building and Solar Tour
  • Case study: Zero-energy home
  • North Carolina Green Building Technology Database

  • Advanced Energy Corporation

  • Carolina Recycling Association 

  • North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association

  • North Carolina Solar Center’s

  • State Energy Office, NC Department of Administration’s

  •  NC HealthyBuilt Homes Program checklist, residential high performance guidelines coordinated by the NC Solar Center

  • US Green Building Council’s website link to LEEDTM

  • American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers

  • Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (CMPBS)

  • National Energy Foundation

  • National Recycling Coaliton

  • EPA Green Power Partnership

  • Million Solar Roof Initiative

  • International Energy Agency

  • International Ground Source Heat Pump Association

  • Fact Sheet from Cooperative Extension

  • North Carolina Daylighting Consortium Lighting fixture search engine

  • Website sponsored by Phillips Lighting, provides fixture search engine for LEDs and florescents.

  • CSI format based green building product search engine

  • Environmental Building News CSI Buy Recycled Business Alliance

  • NC Dept. of Administration procurement site. 

  • Find some typical latitudes and longitudes in the US.

  • Provide the lattitude and longitude and other factors and this calculator will help you with sun angles.

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