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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Experience-based Book & DVD Set Offers Unique Opportunity for Understanding Green Homes |
STIMULATING CONTENT PROVIDES COMPREHENSIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCE 
KENNETT SQUARE, PA, May 1, 2009--/WORLD-WIRE/-- Avrim and Vicki Topel, authors of Green Beginnings The Story of How We Built Our Green & Sustainable Home, announced today the release of the Green Beginnings Green Homes Book & DVD Educational Set, an engaging, comprehensive explanation of the new green homes that are changing the way people live. The educational package was created to help students, homeowners, and professionals alike learn about and understand green homes and the health, environmental and economic benefits they produce for individuals and the greater good.
“The homes we live in consume more energy and are among the top contributors to the health and environmental problems that threaten the planet,” states Vicki Topel. “Clearly, how we have been living up until now just isn’t working anymore, and green homes and “greening” existing homes provide health and environmental solutions to the crises that challenge our world today.” According to the authors, green homes reduce global warming, lessen our national dependence on foreign oil, protect and conserve natural resources, and support the local communities in which they are built. Green homes reduce electric and heating costs by 35%, 50%, or more, provide healthy indoor air environments free from off-gassing, dust, airborne allergens, mold and mildew, and substantially reduce maintenance and upkeep expenses. The new book and DVD set allows students to witness how homeowners and professionals are adapting to change with new green technologies and products as they prepare to enter the global marketplace of new green jobs and career choices. Most importantly, understanding green homes empowers people to make intelligent, informed, energy-efficient and health-related choices and decisions that affect both their immediate families and serve the greater good. The Green Beginnings Green Homes Educational Set provides a unique and valuable opportunity to learn about and understand green homes built to the criteria set forth by the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED For Homes Green Building Rating System. LEED, an acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is the national benchmark for green and sustainable design and construction. This innovative, experience-based approach to learning about green homes is designed and created for both homeowners and classroom applications with health, the environment, conservation, and protecting natural resources at the forefront. Delving beyond the physical structure, the content also reveals the USGBC’s recommended integrative team approach to design and construction and exemplifies how consumers and professionals are adapting to change in the interest of health, the environment, conservation, and protecting our natural resources. The Green Homes Educational Set consists of the book Green Beginnings: The Story of How We Built Our Green & Sustainable Home, and the Green Beginnings Video. The book shares the homeowners’ experience of learning about, planning and building a LEED Silver and Energy Star Qualified home in an eco-memoir that reads like a novel. The video is an original-content, stand-alone eco-documentary that features the creative professional team’s green builder, architect, sustainable engineer, and landscape archiitect continue the learning experience by touring the property and explaining various green and sustainable aspects of the project. The book and DVD are available both individually and together as the Green Beginnings Green Homes Educational Set. On April 22, 2009, Green Beginnings: The Story of How We Built Our Green & Sustainable Home was awarded a Gold medal from the 2008 Living Now Book Awards, a global competition among books that improved people’s quality of life. For additional information about the Green Beginnings Green Homes Educational Set (Book & DVD), visit www.GreenBeginningsConsulting.com or Amazon.com Webstore www.LearnAboutGreenHomes.com . Contact: Vicki Topel, Author LEEDSilver@yahoo.com |
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