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NAHB’s Voluntary Model Green Home Building Guidelines

June 13, 2008 – 5:16 am

By Neda Dabestani-Ryba
Prudential Carruthers REALTORS
The voluntary Model Green Home Building Guidelines are designed to move environmentally friendly home building concepts further into the mainstream marketplace. Currently, there are approximately thirty communities throughout the U.S. that have green home building programs in place or in development. By developing the set of voluntary national guidelines, NAHB intends [...]

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To Build A House For $8000? – It Is Easy!

June 10, 2008 – 5:33 am

By : Sam Brown
How much would you spend to build your own new home? It is difficult to say when you start to calculate the cost of your dream house. There is a firm answer - as little as £4,000.
That was the price tag estimated to a cottages project which has been edited in southern [...]

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Does Your City Have Green Roofs?

April 30, 2008 – 9:19 am

Having a green roof is becoming the thing to do in urban environments and Green Roofs for Healthy CIties is an organization all about that.  They have also a list of top ten cities with green roofs in North America.  They are:

Chicago, Il
Wilmington, DE
Baltimore, MD
Brooklyn, NY 
Virgina Beach, VA
Royersford, PA 
Tronto, On 
Calgary, AB 
Washington D.C. 
Philadelphia, PA 

Last year there [...]

By Kelly Mead | Also posted in Green Cities, In The News, designing green, green ideas, green landscaping | Comments (0)

REGREEN when you ReModel

April 11, 2008 – 6:30 am

Starting in March 2008 those of us who wish to remodel, rehab, or gut either part or our entire existing homes now have a program and guidelines to help us make them as green as possible.  New construction has the LEED program to help guide and find products needed to make them green.  Now the U.S. Green Building [...]

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