At Home in Arkansas: As a builder, tell us about your decision to build your own green home in Woodlands Edge, which is a sustainable neighborhood.
Jennifer Franks: It was an obvious next step for us to build a traditional Southern-style home, our favorite look, and marry that with green technology. We wanted people to see that you can live comfortably in a certified green home. We’re not extremists. You need to balance your life with all these things, but it’s doable.
Bret Franks: We learned much more by actually building it than was possible by just reading books about how to do it.
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