Going Green Is Healthy Choice

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Health concerns and fears of stronger hurricanes motivated two Yorktown, Va., families to take a different approach to building new homes.

They are going "green" and getting sturdier structures in the process. Their homes use recycled materials, run on less energy and help them breathe better.

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Going Green Is Healthy Choice

During Hurricane Isabel in 2003, Myra Redman worried that her house would cave in. A front window was bowing and leaking water and she could feel the vinyl-sided structure moving when she touched the walls.

"'Would our house hold?' is all I could remember thinking," she sai...

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