Silicon Valley Technology, Art, Green & Sustainability talk show with host and Executive Producer Heather Durham. Episode guest is architect Hari Sripadanna, AIA, who had the first LEED Home in Saratoga. Hari is a an Architect and he decided that he would like to do a Green Home. In California, Build it Green is thought of as the most reachable standard to the average person for a green home. Hari wanted to go beyond that, so he joined in the newly created LEED for Homes by the US Green Building Council. This is the hardest way to reach green, a little more costly than the other standard, but also longer lasting and more cutting edge. Most of his neighbors liked what he was doing, but there was one neighbor at every turn that did not approve and would complain to the city, about the pitch of the roof, or whatever they could come up with. This was also a learning process for the City of Saratoga, since this was the first LEED home there. The home received LEED Gold, one step away from Platinum and Hari was only reaching for LEED Silver.
