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Is it possible for a group of the world’s most respected environmental scientists to truly practice what they preach? Can their expertise in climate change help them in transforming an old house and its nine acres into their new office building and campus – a building that is as energy efficient as possible, uses local materials, and generates all of the energy it consumes? In this candid, charming, and informative book, the director of the renowned Woods Hole Research Center tells a story that will interest anyone who has ever thought about doing a `green’ rehab, has tried to build green, or just wonders what’s actually possible.

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""The Nature of a House is a candid, charming, and illuminating book. Woodwell tells a story that will interest anyone who has ever thought about doing a 'green' rehab, has tried to build green, or just wonders what is actually possible.""-- ""SirReadaLot.org"" ""The residential sector is responsible for 21% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, which are directly related to global climate change. Building green provides a dual benefit by significantly lessening the negative impact of a home on the environment, while also benefitting the occupants by saving them money, reducing resource usage, and improving their health. Green home building can help to drive these benefits, and The Nature of a House helps to educate consumers about the importance of green homebuilding while offering strategies and solutions, both big and small.""--Nate Kredich, VP of Residential Market Development, U.S. Green Building Council ""Nobody understands the connections between the global and the local better than George Woodwell. The Nature of a House is at once sobering and inspiring. It shows what can be done--what has to be done--to achieve true sustainability.""--Elizabeth Kolbert ""The New Yorker staff writer and author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe""

The residential sector is responsible for 21% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, which are directly related to global climate change. Building green provides a dual benefit by significantly lessening the negative impact of a home on the environment, while also benefitting the occupants by saving them money, reducing resource usage, and improving their health. Green home building can help to drive these benefits, and The Nature of a House helps to educate consumers about the importance of green homebuilding while offering strategies and solutions, both big and small. --Nate Kredich VP of Residential Market Development, U.S. Green Building Council

Nobody understands the connections between the global and the local better than George Woodwell. The Nature of a House is at once sobering and inspiring. It shows what can be done - what has to be done - to achieve true sustainability. <br><br>--Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker staff writer and author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe

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Dr. George M. Woodwell is the founder of the Woods Hole Research Center. He was also the founder and director of the Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and a senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He was a founding trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a founding trustee of the World Resources Institute, a founder of the Environmental Defense Fund, and former president of the Ecological Society of America. Dr. Woodwell is the author of more than three hundred papers and books on ecology.

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