• Appraisers look to measure value of green.
• Green buildings expected to receive lower financing.
• Going green is good for your wallet. 
• Eco-friendly, custom-built prefabs in high demand.
• Life and death of green design and forgoing LEED.
• Geothermal heating/cooling systems hit home.
• Habitat for Humanity LEED home blends into neighborhood.
• Here are ten of the world’s dirtiest cities.
• How to scoot in a city built for cars.
• Green energy blooms in the desert of New Mexico.

*WIR = Week in Review; a Saturday showcase of excellent links.

• The future of the environment.
• The rise of the "conflicted consumer."
• The Top 100 Green Design Firms.
• As the housing market weakens, homes get smaller.
• Green buildings is hard to define. 
• The green home market is growing. 
• New study says solar could provide 10% of electricity by 2025.

*WIR = Week in Review; a Saturday showcase of excellent links.

• Green buildings on the rise. 
• Off-the-grid a popular choice for second homes.
• LEED is future of industrial building.
• FTC set to watch over green building claims.
• New book asks questions about eco-watchdog groups.
• The Planet Green Network embarrasses the Earth.
• First real-time GHG reporting system installed by Army.
• The art of planting trees to cool your home and the planet.

*WIR = Week in Review; a Saturday showcase of excellent links.

• Cost of solar expected to plummet by 2010.
• SF approves solar incentive ordinance.
• Tenants hunting for treasured LEED space.
• Money saved by going off the grid. 
• Mexico City plants lawns on roofs to fight warming.
• Climate destruction will produce millions of ‘envirogees’.
• Schools going green to save some green.
• Idaho county contemplates small scale wind zoning.

*WIR = Week in Review; a Saturday showcase of excellent links.

• Green buyers find prefab fabulous.
• Retail chains sold on green and energy efficiency.
• SLC Mayor proposes fast track approval for green projects.
• The tragic lag between what we know and what we do.
• Offsets present confused picture to consumers and businesses.
• Age of Transformation: suburbs becoming like city centers.
• Voices of Sprawl: now coming to a town near you (buy).

*WIR = Week in Review; a Saturday showcase of excellent links.