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Indoor Air Quality
Energy Efficiency
Eco-Friendliness
Green Home
Recycling
100
Ventless fireplaces, oil-based paints, dirty exhaust fans, cleaning chemicals
What are things that can pollute the air inside your home?
100
Adding more of this will conserve heat and cooling in your home
What is insulation?
100
Water faucets, Toilets, Showers, Old washing machines, Sprinkler systems
What are things that can waste water?
100
Healthier, More sustainable, Eco-friendly, Energy efficient, Healthier, Saves money
What are the advantages of buying a Certified Green home?
100
By recycling 1 ton of newspapers, you can save 17 of these per year.
What are trees?
200
This type of construction can cause your home's inside air to become more polluted
What is "air-tight" construction?
200
This uses 20-25% of your home’s electricity each year.
What is lighting?
200
Low flow faucets and showerheads, Energy Star dishwashers, rain barrels, front loading washing machines
What are things that can save water?
200
Energy Star-rated, NAHB-Certfied Green, LEED Certified
What are types of Green Home ratings?
200
Newspapers, Aluminum cans, magazines, plastic bottles
What are things that you can recycle?
300
This type of paint is best for using on interior walls.
What are Low or No VOC (Voluatile Organic Compounds) paints?
300
Compact Flourescent Lighting (CFL), LED’s, Daylighting Tubes, Skylights
What are types of lighting that can save you hundreds of dollars per year in your home?
300
Rain barrels and rain water collection cisterns
What are ways that you can capture rain water from your home for reuse and water saving?
300
www.TriadGreenBuilding.org
Where is the best place to locate Green builders, suppliers and real estate agents?
300
Three products made from recycled plastic bottles and jugs
What are carpet, clothing and plasticized lumber?
400
The stack effect
What can cause your home to become more polluted when it is built too "tight"?
400
These help to circulate the air, thereby enhancing heating and cooling
What are (ceiling) fans?
400
Plastic wood, engineered lumber, fiber cement siding
What are Green options to the traditional building materials used in the past?
400
Whole House Approach
What is the method used for determining the best "Green" ways to build or renovate a home?
400
Natural resources, energy and landfill space.
What are three things that recycling saves?
500
Low-pile or less allergen-attracting carpet, sustainably harvested wood or bamboo
What are great products to use in order to improve indoor air quality?
500
A 5% discount off of your energy bill
What will Duke Energy give you if you own an Energy Star home?
500
Low Impact Development (LID)
What is an innovative approach to stormwater management that uses nature as its model?
500
www.dsireusa.org
Where can you find updated tax credits and deductions for Green renovations and building?
500
This fast growing waste category includes TV’s, computers and cell phones.
What is "e-waste"?