Building an eco-friendly deck is a huge undertaking. From concept to completion involves many steps, putting together many different components and using building materials that you might not be familiar with. Here are three tips to help make the process easier. ==> Do All Your Research Up Front Try to do as much research as you can up front. Research the kinds of materials you want to use, your lighting, your furniture and so on all at once. If you do it as you go, you'll find that you'll continually have to stop to look things up. The finished project [...]