GREEN BEGINNINGS: The Story of How We Built Our Green & Sustainable Home Hot

Review by David Lewis
Many thanks to this husband and wife team for sharing their experience. I feel like I went along with them for the journey of a lifetime in designing and building a green and sustainable home. I have to admit, although I've read plenty of magazing and newpaper articles about Green Homes, I've been reluctant to pick up a book on the subject because the only ones I've been able to find are more like complicated technical manuals which admittedly intimidate me.

Green Beginnings seemed more friendly to me since it was written by actual home owners, like me. What a surprise to find out that this HOW TO book reads more like a story... and a fun story at that. I particulary like how they pulled their whole team together and I've already looked up several of their sub contractors and product lines on line for more information. I also appreciated the practical tips offered "in hindsight" and the fact that the basic terms involved in the world of "Green and Sustainable" now make total sense to me for the first time.

Although I'm not quite ready to start building my own Green and Sustainable home, I'm certainly more prepared to start the process of where, when and how I'll go about it when I am ready. I highly recommend this book to ANYONE who is interested in lowering their home and living expenses and I'm going to provide several copies to our local school libraries here in Pennsylvania - not only is this the perfect MUST READ book for anyone considering building a Green and Sustainable home, Green Beginnings should be required reading for all high schoolers since its cleary the way of the future. Hats off (made of natural fibers, of course) to Avrim and Vicki Topel for an easy to read book on a sometimes hard to understand subject matter.