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Brownfields

Brownfields Samoa Peninsula, CA: Sustainable Solutions for Historic Houses in Northern California - A Voluntary Green Code & Green Rehabilitation Manual

This manual was created to help homeowners choose sustainable strategies for restoring and rehabilitating many of the smaller, Victorian-style, wood-framed houses built in Northern California during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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