Help your environment while you are helping your house become a home!
Sustainability is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
"Green" is often used as a synonym for "earth-friendly." To be green is to recognize that nature is a foundation for human life and that the processes of nature set our limits and possibilities.
Building Arts practices green construction:
| 1) | To Increase the use of renewable resources such as solar, wind and geothermal energy. |
| 2) | So that renewable resources such as timber can be maintained over time. |
| 3) | To reduce reliance on toxic substances that do not readily break down in nature. |
| 4) | To use all resources as efficiently as possible. |
| 5) | To sustain and enhance existing buildings. |
