The City of Mesa’s free “Living Green” workshop series continues Saturday, June 12 at 1:30 p.m. with a seminar on Green Building and Renovating Principles for Your Home at the Mesa Main Library, 64 E. 1st St. The Development and Sustainability Department and Mesa Library are presenting the monthly workshop series featuring earth-friendly advice for your home and garden.

Building and Renovating Principles for Your Home, presented by Donna DiFrancesco and Steve Priebe, will demonstrate how to build or renovate your home using green principles that will help save water and energy and improve indoor air quality. This personal home builder’s journey will also review green rating systems, benefits to the environmental and your wallet, as well as incentives and rebates available.

DiFrancesco and Priebe are both horticulturists who embarked on an adventure of building a green home. Knowing very little about home construction, they educated themselves on green building techniques and technologies. Because they learned so much from others who opened their homes, they enjoy sharing what they have learned and have been on the solar and sustainable building tour since 2006.

The aim of the “Living Green” series is to inform the community about why and how to increase the sustainability of our community, and is part of a larger effort by the City to develop and implement innovative programs to address environmental issues and concerns. If you can’t make it to the workshop, the City has posted a monthly Sustainability Savings Tip on its new Web site, mesaaz.gov/sustainability.

The series will continue on the second Saturday of each month with new topics and guest speakers. For more information on the “Living Green” workshop series or the City’s sustainability efforts, visit www.mesaaz.gov/sustainability or call (480) 644-4400.