• Building a green home is not a chore any longer. It's making choices along a spectrum of ways to build and levels of efficiency.
• Four recently built homes – in Maine, Utah, North Carolina and Minnesota – show that a green house can fit in wherever it is.
• A range of certification standards make eco-friendly houses "more common-sense pragmatism than tree-hugging dogmatism."

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Green building has progressed to the point where looks can be deceiving: An energy-wise home can be traditional, cutting-edge, or in between....