Bobvila.com Partners With GreenTowns.com

NEW YORK, May 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bob Vila, the dean of green home renovation and repair advice, is proud to be a featured subject matter expert and partner in the launch of GreenTowns.com, a new online network that connects and celebrates innovative green sustainability efforts and the people pioneering them in thousands of towns and cities across the United States.  

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Bob Vila has been a longtime supporter of green home building technology and initiatives, and is a pioneer in helping share green ideas and promoting new sustainable home renovation and repair products and technologies.  Through his leading home renovation and repair website, www.BobVila.com, Bob shows you how to make small changes at home that will have a big impact on helping the environment, and dispels myths that building green has to mean building ugly or spending extravagantly.  In his web-exclusive videos "Bob Vila Building Green," Bob showcases groundbreaking green technologies, from a green Habitat for Humanity building to an earth-bermed house built into the side of a hill.

A generation of home renovation enthusiasts has grown up and learned about home improvement with Bob over the last 30 years, and with this new partnership he looks forward to reconnecting with that audience as well as a new crop of home renovation fans that believe in green technologies and ideas as a cornerstone of the future of home building and renovation.  

"Every town has its own unique challenges to finding green solutions.  We want to help!" said Bob Vila, CEO of BobVila.com. "The audience of BobVila.com is interested in sustainable building and green efforts, and we hope that our partnership with GreenTowns.com will connect them with specialists and local citizens across the United States who share the same green commitment."

The partnership between BobVila.com and GreenTowns.com will help share the BobVila.com message, support and expertise of green initiatives with the GreenTowns audience, while highlighting the GreenTowns network to Bob Vila's many followers on twitter and other venues.  Building on the technology and communication tools that power 15,000  community websites at AmericanTowns.com,  GreenTowns.com will also offer green community pages for each town in a feature called "How Green Is Your Town.". Bob will author original green home renovation and repair content for AmericanTowns.com and GreenTowns.com and green articles and video from the vast BobVila.com library will be featured on the two sites, helping bring Bob's unique green pedigree and expertise to a new audience.

About BobVila.com:

BobVila.com is the dean of green home renovation and repair advice.  From information on the latest green technologies, to improving, building, and buying a home, to historic house tours, BobVila.com helps you make the most of your living space. You'll find original video from Bob Vila Building Green, a new Web series; video from 17 years of Bob Vila's television series – Bob Vila's Home Again and Bob Vila; in-depth articles, checklists, and "Before You..." hints; and extensive quick tips that save you headaches, money, time, and trouble.  Follow Bob via his tweets, travels, books, and newsletter!  

About GreenTowns:

GreenTowns.com is a sustainability-focused digital platform that connects and celebrates green initiatives and the people leading them in towns across America.  Built on the foundation of AmericanTowns.com -- a network of hyper-local websites serving 15,000 cities and towns – GreenTowns aims to inspire people to grow sustainable communities and thereby to help build a green America. GreenTowns.com is hosted and owned by AmericanTowns.com L.L.C., headquartered in Fairfield, CT.

SOURCE BobVila.com