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- Green Building Initiative
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- American Wind Energy Association. www.awea.org
- Bongiorno, Lori. "How Do I Choose a Tankless Water Heater?"
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- Eco-Products. http://www.ecoproducts.com/
- Energy Star. http://energystar.gov
- Garskof , Josh. "How to Cut Your Energy Bills in Half." Money, October 2007.
- Green Building Initiative. http://www.thegbi.org
- GreenHomeBuilding.com. http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/articles/buildingwithnature.htm
- Gunther, Marc. "Who's The Greenest Bank Of All?" Fortune,
Sept. 17, 2007. - Home Energy Magazine. http://www.homeenergy.org
- Home Energy Saver. http://hes.lbl.gov
- Kamenetz, Anya. "The Green Standard? LEED buildings get lots of buzz, but the point is getting lost." FastCompany.com, October 2007.
- Karush, Sarah. "D.C. Council Passes Green Building Rules." Associated Press News Service, The, December 6, 2006.
- LEED for Homes Program. http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=2267
- Living Homes architectural firm. http://www.livinghomes.us
- Natural Resources Defense Council. http://www.nrdc.org
- Rain barrel guide. http://rainbarrelguide.com/
- Residential Energy Services Network. http://resnet.us
- Rocky Mountain Institute. www.rmi.org/images/other/GDS-IGB_Eubank.pdf
- Solar Water Heating Guide. http://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/fy96/17459.pdf
- "The Greenest House on the Planet." Business Week, Sept. 11, 2006.
- Tibbitts, Tim. "Advocates say green buildings cut costs, improve work environment." Crain's Cleveland Business, October 16, 2006.
- United Nations. http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/index.html
- United Nations Environment Programme. www.grid.unep.ch
- U.S. Department of Energy. http://www.energy.gov
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. www.epa.gov
- U.S. Green Building Council. www.usgbc.org
- Whole Building Design Guide. http://www.wbdg.org/
