Couple may have set national record for unusual way they rebuilt 1980s home: 'It is possible to reinvent the way we do things'

Couple may have set national record for unusual way they rebuilt 1980s home: 'It is possible to reinvent the way we do things'

Jason and Kristin Nichols have been hard at work building the most sustainable home possible for their family.  They searched high and low for the right property, and settled on a home in Sebastopol, in northern California.  They decided that retrofitting an existing home would be more eco-friendly than building from scratch, then got to work at Windhorse Orchard. They would plan to meet two ambitious building standards: the Living Building Chal…