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HBN and the PVC-Free Habitat for
Humanity House
© Greenpeace
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Working together with Habitat for
Humanity International and the
international environmental organization
Greenpeace, HBN has sponsored the
construction of a model Healthy Habitat,
built by Habitat for Humanity volunteers
in New Orleans, Louisiana. HBN
participant Bruce Hampton, AIA, led the
effort to put principle into practice by
constructing the home using Habitat's
standard design, but incorporating the
best practices of the green building
movement. The result: a PVC-free home
in Louisiana, the state with the greatest
concentration of PVC chemical plants in
the nation.
The PVC-free New Orleans Area Habitat
House is a model effort for Habitat for
Humanity and other affordable housing
projects. Other projects have used innovative designs to achieve even
greater gains in energy efficiency toxics reduction. (See: South Puget
Sound Habitat for Humanity, Hickory Consortium Erie Ellington, and
Green Communities)
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