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Leslie Hoffman -- the President and Executive Director of Earth Pledge -- is a trained architect and skilled green builder.Leslie Hoffman -- the President and Executive Director of Earth Pledge -- has a background in green design. When she decided that her little house in Shelter Island, New York needed a renovation, she -- along with her talented team led by architect Steve Hoffman -- decided to go all out with the green features. In an effort to educate the community at large about green building she's turned her personal renovation into the very public <strong></strong>. From the ground up her super-eco state of the art home provides real life insight into what it takes to remake an old house into a green beauty.1
When she decided that her little house in Shelter Island, New York needed a renovation she decided to go all out with the green features. In an effort to educate the community at large about green building she's turned her personal renovation into the very public Gimme Shelter Project.Leslie Hoffman -- the President and Executive Director of Earth Pledge -- has a background in green design. When she decided that her little house in Shelter Island, New York needed a renovation, she -- along with her talented team led by architect Steve Hoffman -- decided to go all out with the green features. In an effort to educate the community at large about green building she's turned her personal renovation into the very public <strong></strong>. From the ground up her super-eco state of the art home provides real life insight into what it takes to remake an old house into a green beauty.2
From the ground up her super-eco state of the art home provides real life insight into what it takes to remake an old house into a green beauty.Leslie Hoffman -- the President and Executive Director of Earth Pledge -- has a background in green design. When she decided that her little house in Shelter Island, New York needed a renovation, she -- along with her talented team led by architect Steve Hoffman -- decided to go all out with the green features. In an effort to educate the community at large about green building she's turned her personal renovation into the very public <strong></strong>. From the ground up her super-eco state of the art home provides real life insight into what it takes to remake an old house into a green beauty.3
Hoffman sees the Gimme Shelter Project as, "a living laboratory for green and sustainable lifestyle decisions."Leslie Hoffman -- the President and Executive Director of Earth Pledge -- has a background in green design. When she decided that her little house in Shelter Island, New York needed a renovation, she -- along with her talented team led by architect Steve Hoffman -- decided to go all out with the green features. In an effort to educate the community at large about green building she's turned her personal renovation into the very public <strong></strong>. From the ground up her super-eco state of the art home provides real life insight into what it takes to remake an old house into a green beauty.4
She's asked the community to get involved via her blog in the decision making and has brought together a talented team of green people to assist in the construction.Leslie Hoffman -- the President and Executive Director of Earth Pledge -- has a background in green design. When she decided that her little house in Shelter Island, New York needed a renovation, she -- along with her talented team led by architect Steve Hoffman -- decided to go all out with the green features. In an effort to educate the community at large about green building she's turned her personal renovation into the very public <strong></strong>. From the ground up her super-eco state of the art home provides real life insight into what it takes to remake an old house into a green beauty.5
"I’m very committed to using [the house] to educate people about sustainable, low-impact living," she told Inhabitat, "I see the education element living on well-beyond the completion of construction."Leslie Hoffman -- the President and Executive Director of Earth Pledge -- has a background in green design. When she decided that her little house in Shelter Island, New York needed a renovation, she -- along with her talented team led by architect Steve Hoffman -- decided to go all out with the green features. In an effort to educate the community at large about green building she's turned her personal renovation into the very public <strong></strong>. From the ground up her super-eco state of the art home provides real life insight into what it takes to remake an old house into a green beauty.6
Hoffman and her team have chosen to include some of the most high-tech and low-tech green building techniques and explains them all on the Gimme Shelter website.Leslie Hoffman -- the President and Executive Director of Earth Pledge -- has a background in green design. When she decided that her little house in Shelter Island, New York needed a renovation, she -- along with her talented team led by architect Steve Hoffman -- decided to go all out with the green features. In an effort to educate the community at large about green building she's turned her personal renovation into the very public <strong></strong>. From the ground up her super-eco state of the art home provides real life insight into what it takes to remake an old house into a green beauty.7
