The David Gottfried house is said to be the most green house in America today. Built by a United States Green Building Council co-founder whose LEED building standard is now a popular blueprint for sustainable building, the house scored 106 out of a possible 136 points detailed by LEED.

The finished house is a good example of Gottfried “walking-the-walk.” Perhaps the real importance though of this project was not just in building the “greenest” house, but more about how the house was built.

First, this wasn’t a new house built from scratch, but a 1915 bungalow redesigned to modern living standards. In the process Gottfried knocked out walls and reused materials while adding a solar hot water system to make the house modern, energy efficient, and sustainable.

Renovating green rather than building new can have a huge impact on reducing construction waste, and this house built on that belief makes it an honest real-life example of what current homeowners can do to “go green” without having to move.

Learn more about the house at www.gottfriedhome.com.

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