Green architecture that utilizes passive and active systems to reduce abuilding’s carbon footprint has become vogue in the last couple ofyears.  But while green design has brightened our commercial lives togreat public fanfare, it has yet to be utilized as conspicuously in ourresidential lives. Although several new apartment complexes havestarted to incorporate green techniques into their design, individualhomes and condos, while greening up here and there, have not hadsustainable design standardized as has commercial design.
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