Since July of last year, we have also been working on our site to provide an environment that promotes the health of insects and birds. As we are not landscape architects or naturalists, it took months of research and advice from friends and our landscape architect to establish and execute our design. Here are some of the choices we have made.
Read MoreOur new house will use a fraction of the energy used to heat and cool a traditional house. It will conserve resources and thus be sustainable. Other aspects of the house that qualify it as sustainable will be the materials, which, with the exception of the windows will come from local sources.
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