About Green Building

To learn how green building is better for people, pocketbook, and planet, and how the market is transforming in North Texas, please see below.

Tour the Bannister House with EcoBroker Beth Johnson. Spend 30 minutes on an audio-visual tour that’s a great primer on green building. Award-winning architect William Peck, (William Peck & Associates) and builder Chris Miles (GreenCraft Builders LLC) teamed up in 2007 to build this mainstream, mid-sized, mid-priced, environmentally friendly home in Grapevine, Texas that is a demonstration project for the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s “Building America” program. Beth led Advocates Realty’s team that hosted five weekends of tours during which 4,000 North Texans learned cost-effective measures that made this home approx. 50% more energy efficient than a new built-to-code home and earned it Energy Star, Green Built North Texas, and LEED Platinum certifications. See much more at the Bannister House website. To shop for other homes or custom build jobs by GreenCraft or other green builders, and William Peck or other green architects, please contact Beth Johnson, 214.415.5089 or beth@bethjohnson.com.

"'Green Built' homes are Better for People and the Planet," by Beth Johnson and Arthur Kuehne, a presentation at the Dallas Sierra Club General Meeting on March 13, 2007.  Includes: Why home performance is important; What is Green Building?; New-home rating programs; North Texas examples; Greening your existing home; Government incentives; Further education. (link is a fairly large PDF file)

"As Texas Goes, so Goes the Planet: Green Building is the core of one Texas realtor's practice," by Beth Johnson. Appeared in Mar.-Apr., 2007 issue of Home Energy Magazine. A diary of market transformation from the perspective of Texas' first EcoBroker and LEED AP Realtor. "What we call green building today will just be called building 5 to 8 years from now."--Greater Dallas Home Builders Association President T.W. Bailey.

“Dallas Area Residential Green Building Program Unveiled,” by Beth Johnson. Appeared in June, 2006, Dallas Sierra Club newsletter The Compass. A quick primer on green building and new tools for the homebuyer. Includes mention of available local and national green building rating systems.