Is Going Green Going to Cost More Green?

it’s widely believed that if it’s
environmentally friendly it costs more
however renovating your home to be green
will eventually save you a bundle hi I’m
Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
learning more about ecologically
friendly Renaud’s from the men behind
one of North America’s most green homes
is there a significant difference in
cost between building a greenhouse and
building you know regular house so you
have a design for a house and you build
it in conventional methods or ego
methods I think I would ask to mate ten
to fifteen percent more expensive to
build eco depending on the will of the
people who are doing the work at the
same time that will pay back the house
owner over the 25 year if you take it as
a mortgage investment in this case there
was absolutely no difference we actually
built for under conventional building
costs and it is actually lead certified
and platinum which is the highest rating
you can get under the lead certification
system it has a lot more to do with how
you do things rather than what type of
fancy gadgets you spend money on now
that you actually live in the home and
it is it saving you money and if so how
much it consumed about five thousand
dollars worth of energy per year now
we’re down to well under a thousand
dollars in energy costs and we’ve
doubled the living area if you go
through the entire building I’ve
estimated what was bought as new
materials and we’re over three-quarters
old stuff when you’re reclaiming
materials not only are you not say for
example cutting a tree down to make your
wood you’re also displacing wood from a
landfill and putting it to another
useful life
you