San Francisco — GreenHomeGuide, a community-based guide to environmentally sound home remodeling for Northern California homeowners, is available at www.GreenHomeGuide.com.

The Guide provides a Web-based forum and resource for green building professionals and homeowners to meet, inspire and advise one another on how to create healthier homes and healthier lives while supporting local businesses. The Guide features Northern California products and services; it will expand later to include other U.S. cities.

Homeowners can find green remodeling guidance for the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and nursery, plus profiles of local building professionals and homeowners, product reviews and rankings, and a monthly “Perspectives” column offering inspiration for homeowners to switch to green building.

On the site, green building experts rate products, including furniture, paints and stains, flooring, stone and tile, and countertops, for ecological, healthful, durable and resource-efficient attributes using a five-star ranking system. Consumers comment on product quality, aesthetics, price and ease of use.

David Gottfried, founder of the U.S. Green Building Council and author of “Greed to Green,” is the founding member of the Guide's Advisory Board and is the author of the first “Perspectives” column. A free monthly electronic newsletter will update readers on the latest feature stories, reviews and other commentary.