Monday, December 7, 2009

Sustainable Residential Design: Increasing Energy Efficiency

Residential and commercial buildings use ten percent of U.S. energy.
Sustainable residential landscape architecture can dramatically reduce energy costs over the long term while creating a healthy residential environment.
The energy efficiency benefits of sustainable landscape architecture practices, including age-old practices like tree siting for shading, can be further leveraged through the use of clean energy technologies, like solar power.

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