Yes, green homes, and sustainable communities are booming in North Carolina these days. Perhaps it’s because NC is our home state, but I really don’t think so. Just in the past two weeks we have had two new communities join our site from North Carolina, so I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce [...]
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President-elect Barack Obama’s top four economic decisions have been announced according to the latest news:
First - Universal Health Care
Second - Economic Recovery and Job Creation
Third - Building Green
Fourth - Ending the War in Iraq
As we’re aware “Environmental Organizations” supported Obama strongly and early on sent their wish list to Obama’s transition team.
This list included, cutting [...]
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Just thought I would let everyone know we have two more Green Communities listed on our main website, and we excited to have them on board! We have been needing a community in Tennessee, and now we have one!
Kingsport, Tennessee is the home of a wonderful sustainable community called Edenburgh. Please take a look at [...]
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Here is our new “Short” video. What do you think!
Al Gore was a guest speaker today at the Web 2.0 summit in California. Here is a snippet of things he spoke about, but all in all he challenged Obama to get this country to sustainable resources within 10 years, which means greater emphasis on green communities. Take a look at the news article.
Although this is not “Breaking News,” take a look at a statement on Google’s web site: “With hundreds of millions of Google users, it takes extensive computer infrastructure to keep our tools and services running. And that takes a lot of electricity. Generating that electricity requires energy, and as our business grows, we want to [...]
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Jeff McIntire-Strasburg of ‘Green Opinions Media‘ is our guest writer this week.
Jeff started ‘Sustainablog’ in July 2003, he is the Managing Editor, and ‘Sustainablog’ is now one of the longest-running green blogs on the web.
Jeff has been mentioned in the San Francisco, Chronicle and St.Louis, Post Dispatch as well as dozens of blog sites [...]
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NSTAR Electric & Gas (In collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources) has implemented a plan to diversify its energy efficiency programs to help us! According to this plan is should help residential heating customers for the upcoming winter season.
I bet we are all glad [...]
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A New Mexico sustainable community has become the first of its kind to receive funding from a new initiative that targets carbon offset supported affordable green housing.
For those of you new to the whole green community thing, a carbon offset is when carbon dioxide emissions are intentionally balanced with a house or other product [...]
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Everyone knows the current condition of the housing market is less than favorable, and many people wonder what it will take to get the market back on its feet. I’m sure time is a huge factor in the recovery of the housing market, but the emergence of green communities may actually speed things up a [...]
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