Greening Your Home Series

Presented by Jim LaRue, one of Cleveland's best-known and most trusted green building experts.

Location: Orrville Mennonite Church, West Market St., Orrville

Mondays, Sept. 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27 at 7 p.m.

Local people will be will be asked to share about what they are doing or have done to green their home and bring pictures. Focus of the series will be on retrofitting or remodeling existing homes.

Sept.
15 Greening Site and Foundation
22 Greening Exterior Walls and Exterior Surfaces
29 Greening Day Lighting and Roofs
Oct.
6 Greening Heating and Cooling
13 Greening Ventilation & Interior Surfaces
20 Greening Electrical Services & Water Usage
27 Greening Residential Maintainance

Learn the most practical ways to:

* Reduce your cost of heating, cooling and lighting
* Improve indoor air quality
* Remodel with nontoxic floor and wall coverings
* Find environmentally friendly building materials
* Reduce your home maintenance costs, and so much more.

Greening your home is about making smart choices to reduce home energy consumption, minimize your exposure to chemicals, molds and other toxins, and reduce your impact on the Earth's fragile environment. Since it makes such good sense, green building is rapidly entering the mainstream.

Jim LaRue has many years of practical experience in helping homeowners and builders find ways to make living spaces more energy efficient, durable and healthy. He is a recognized leader in this field and helped to build the first green homes in Cleveland.

Mr. LaRue will be joined by Barbara Starre, who built a "green home" in the Medina area. She will share her experience making materials and systems choices and finding suppliers to make her home as green as possible, and how those choces have worked out for her.

Return to Wayne County Sustainable Energy Network home page.