Green’ construction guidelines go residential
By Thomas Hayden, Special for USA TODAY
When Allison Friedman, a mother of two in Weston, Mass., set out to “green” her home two years ago, she came at the project with a lot of eagerness and energy — and not much knowledge.
“My contractor was reasonably receptive,” she recalls, “but things didn’t turn out as successfully as I wanted them to. We knew we wanted a more environmentally friendly home, but we didn’t really know enough to make that happen.”