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Are you considering building the home of your dreams this year?  The newest trend is to build green by using materials that are environmentally friendly, designing your space to use energy more efficiently, furnishing your home with Energy Star rated appliances, avoiding waste and using natural resources as much as possible.

There’s also the advantage of doing your bit to help the environment while cutting back on your own utility bills.

 Here are a few websites that offer help while you’re in the planning stages of building green:

• Green Home Guide:  Maintained by the United States Green Building Council, this site offers wonderful information on green home programs, green remodeling guidelines, how to live green and other resources. Learn how you can get your home LEED certified (The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), standards which were developed as early as the turn of the century by the United States Green Building Council in order to create the “world’s greenest buildings”.

• Green Home Building: This site offers a treasure trove of information in addition to plans and designs, you can find resources that help when you’re starting to come up with ideas for your green home.  Besides eco friendly designs, you also have many options that focus on local architecture, indigenous material and talent. You can seek expert opinion and even purchase building codes and other resources.

• Green Building:  This site tells you how a green home should be constructed and offers links to professionals in the field. Learn how to go about a green remodeling project or talk to energy experts  to see how your home can benefit.

• Green is Universal:  This site offers a virtual reality exercise where you can play at building your own green home online.

• Building Green: This site offers a live feed of all the news related to green building from all around the world. Other links offer access to green projects, products and articles.

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