• I can’t believe it’s Walmarts

    3/03/10 • (0)

    This article was from a recent Atlantic Magazine
    BUY MY FOOD at Walmart? No thanks. Until recently, I had been to exactly one Walmart in my life, at the insistence of  a friend I was visiting in Natchez, Mississippi, about 10 years ago. It was one of the sights, she said. Up and down the aisles we (Jump)

  • DNREC

    3/01/10 • (0)

    A sustainable development considers its long-term impacts on the greater community, on air quality and traffic; on resources such as wildlife, habitat, forests and wetlands; and on its carbon footprint – or contribution to climate change.  A “green-certified” home could be located far from existing services, requiring numerous car trips daily, consuming land and resources, (Jump)

  • Your Old Home may be the Greenest One in Town

    3/01/10 • (0)

    There’s just something about a historic home that makes people want to buy them and bring them back to life. In fact, retaining the authentic appearance is a passion for owners who look far and wide to find genuine or replica period fixtures, doors and windows, hardware, copies of original woodwork and other interior details.
    Whether (Jump)

  • The Shrinking American Home

    2/16/10 • (0)

    NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — For the first time in almost 15 years, the size of new homes built in the United States is shrinking.
    New homes are now 7% smaller — or the size of one average-sized room. To be precise, the median square footage of newly built homes fell to 2,065 square feet in the (Jump)

  • Zero Energy Homes and Lance Manlove

    2/13/10 • (0)

    I met Lance Manlove several years ago at a conference on sustainable architecture in Lewes. Lance was the President of  Zero Energy Builders and I  was (and still am) working at Ocean Atlantic Sotheby’s pursing an avid interest in sustainable real estate. Over time we partnered together to co-market green homes, work at conferences together (Jump)

  • Energystar Certified New Homes

    2/13/10 • (1)

    The certfication you will see most often for an energy efficient home is Energy Star New Homes.
    We all are familiar with the name Energy Star because we all look for the logo when we buy appliances..Actually there are products in more than 60 categories that are eligible for the  ENERGY STAR label. Used properly they (Jump)

  • Greenwashing

    2/13/10 • (0)

     Have you noticed a never-ending parade of claims that this or that product is “green” or “eco-friendly” – including from the housing industry?  Prospective homebuyers who sincerely want to live a sustainable lifestyle should carefully evaluate marketing claims and also consider the home’s location.
    “The Green Case for Cities,” in the October 2009 issue of The (Jump)

  • Modulars aren’t what they used to be

    2/13/10 • (0)

    Modular home building is one of the fastest-growing segments of the home construction industry. It provides a higher quality home at less cost and in less time than building the same home on site.
    Recently caught in the middle of a lagging housing market, some manufacturers of factory-built homes have realized that efficiency and sustainability are a (Jump)

  • Signs of Hope for the Housing Industry

    2/13/10 • (0)

     There was a glimmer of good news for the housing market this week: Prices in May went up — 0.5 percent — for the first time in three years.
    According to USA Today, the news “comes on the heels of other promising signs that the market is stabilizing, including a smaller inventory of homes for sale (Jump)

  • My Energy Rant

    2/13/10 • (0)

    If a doctor prescribed brain surgery for your headaches, would you just cheerfully go along with him. Of course not, you would start getting second, third and fourth opinions.
    But a contractor will suggest a $40,000 solar panel system or a new green roof and siding and you cheerfully sign on the dotted line. Well there are (Jump)