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• Appalachian State University Sustainable Energy Society - www.asuses.net
     Through hosting workshops on campus and in the community, planning special events and site assessments, ASUSES is dedicated to the cause for clean energy. Our purpose is to educate, enlighten, and inform students and the community about solar applications as well as other renewable energy sources.


• Autoclaved Aerated Concrete Professional Association - www.aacpa.org/
     We are the AACPA, a dynamic network of organizations and individuals committed to the success of autoclaved aerated concrete products. This is another green building material.


• Building Envelopes Program Handbooks and Fact Sheets - www.ornl.gov/sci/roofs+walls/facts/index.htm
     Explore such areas as retrofits, insulation, moisture control, and attics.


• Canary Coalition - www.canarycoalition.org
     The Canary Coalition is your family, friends and neighbors getting together to do something about the poor quality of the air we've been breathing in western North Carolina and the southern Appalachian region.


• Cisterns To Collect Non-Potable Water For Domestic Use - www.edis.ifas.ufl.edu/AE029
     


• Communities at Risk: Asheville - www.sierraclub.org/communities/2002report/north_carolina/
     Asheville, North Carolina, has a history of clean air and magnificent vistas. But recent studies show that pollution from coal-burning power plants-mostly outside the state-is not only fouling the air but also contributing to respiratory and heart ailments and lung cancer among Asheville residents. Although North Carolina is taking steps to solve the problem, the Bush administration's lax policies will allow out-of-state pollution to thwart the state's efforts to clean up Asheville's air.


• Ductless Air Conditioning - www.consciouschoice.com/2000/cc1307/sensible1307b.html
     Dear Jim: Several rooms in my house are uncomfortably hot, but I don’t want window air conditioners and I cannot afford a central system. Will a quiet ductless system, often used with hot-water heat, work for me too? — Mike R.


• Durisol - www.durisolbuild.com/index.shtml
     Durisol is one of the many concrete-type building materials that are green - but possibly not for the chemically sensitive.


• ENVIROnetBASE - www.environetbase.com/default.asp
     This is one of the technical publishers that publishes works of interest to the serious designer of environmentally freindly structures


• Great Turning Time Links - www.greatturningtimes.org/links.asp
     A free quarterly email newsletter about finding our power to respond to global crisis. Bringing together ecology, psychology, spirituality and global issues, it lists events, news and resources to support the shift towards a life sustaining society.


• Green Living Guide: Warren Wilson College - www.warren-wilson.edu/environmental/greenliving/index.php
     Green Living means living sustainably- meeting current environmental, social, and economic needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.


• Greenopolis - www.greenopolis.com/beta/
     An interactive community green site


• Hazards of Pressure-treated Wood - www.ehhi.org/wood/pr_ptwimpact.shtml
     Report on the levels of arsenic in pressure-treated wood.


• Heilman House - bugsoft.com/craigh/house.html
     This document gives guide to building for both architects and homeowners. Very valuable info!


• It is Possible to Design and Build an Energy Efficient Home - www.countrysidemag.com/issues/84/84-3/Countryside_Staff.html
     


• Poplar Bark siding - www.barksiding.com/index.htm
     There are many green solutions for house siding - here's one of them. A long-lasting product.


• ProQuo - www.proquo.com/
     Choose the paper mail you want. Stop the junk mail you don’t. ProQuo helps you to remove your name and personal information from thousands of marketing lists, data brokers and other organizations that send you unsolicited mail. Over 100 million trees get used for junk mail every year in the U.S. You can help by stopping your unwanted mail.


• Radiant Barrier Attic Fact Sheet - www.ornl.gov/sci/roofs+walls/radiant/index.html
     Radiant barriers are materials that are installed in buildings to reduce summer heat gain and winter heat loss, and hence to reduce building heating and cooling energy usage.


• Residential On-site Wastewater Treatment - www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/epublic/pages/publicationD.jsp?publicationId=269
     This publication explains the basics of a constructed wetland system, including how it works, design considerations and maintenan


• Sizing of Rain Barrels and Cisterns - www.lid-stormwater.net/raincist/raincist_sizing.htm
     


• Sustainable Asheville - www.sustainableasheville.org/
     We promote sustainability in our community through education and networking. We provide opportunities to share insights and creative solutions for living interdependently within our local and global ecosystems.


• Sustainable Energy — Without the hot air - www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/20/mackay_on_carbon_free_uk/print.html
     Here's an article in the Register (UK) detailing how David J C MacKay of the Cambridge University Department of Physics has actually "done the numbers" to look at some of the proposals for green power for the UK - and whether they actually add up.


• The Honeybee Project - thehoneybeeproject.com/
     The Honeybee Project is a children’s educational project designed to raise awareness and engage children in the world they live in.


• The Masonry Stove - www.commonsensehome.com/BuildRemodel/Renewables/masonrystove.htm
     


• Thermal Mass - Energy Savings Potential in Residential Buildings - www.ornl.gov/sci/roofs+walls/research/detailed_papers/thermal/index.html
     Detailed article by J. Kosny, T. Petrie, D. Gawin, P. Childs, A Desjarlais, and J.Christian


• Thermal Performance and Wall Ratings - www.ornl.gov/sci/roofs+walls/articles/wallratings/index.html
     This article summarizes research done in this field.


• US Green Building Council - www.usgbc.org
     The U.S. Green Building Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings accessible to everyone within a generation. This is the organization responsible for creating the LEED Green Building Rating System™.


• Water Conservation Q & A - www.greenhomebuilding.com/QandA/conservewaterQandA.htm
     


• Western North Carolina Green Building Council - www.wncgbc.org
     The Western North Carolina Green Building Council is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote environmentally responsible and health conscious building practices through community education.


• Wild South - www.content.wildsouth.org/
     WildSouth is a non-profit grassroots organization whose mission is to inspire and empower people to protect and restore the native ecosystems of the Southeast! We envision a Southeast that includes healthy intact ecosystems, a reverence for our public lands and the native natural life they support, and a respect for the cultural heritage sites and wilderness found there.