Green Building : Jetson Green

Unworkable Prefab, Green Demolition, Compost Mandate + Dead Eco-towns

• Prefab houses don't work.
• New lives for old buildings.
• Does green building have to break the bank?
• San Francisco enacts mandatory composting law.
• Six bright ideas for the future of energy.
• Who killed Gordon Brown's eco-towns?
• Innovations in sustainable site technology.
• Mature trees (and wildlife habitat) demolished for 'green' building parking lot.

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Retrofit Market, Green Valuation, Greenwashing Claims + Twitter Time

• Make me greener, please.
• 8 innovative green buildings.
• Potential $400 B market for green building retrofits.
• Interactive graphic: how to green your home.
• The challenge of green building valuation.
• Toronto developers see red over green roof law.
• Do you have to be LEED to be green?
• Greenwashing legal claims are on the rise.
• 75+ environmentalists to follow on Twitter.

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Home Power Plant, Water Wake Up, Little Things, + Rising Solar Demand

• The next little thing.
• Green job growth booms.
• The single-family power plant.
• U.S. residential solar demand rising in 2009.
• Global green building rating system coming soon?
• Energy audits vex Austin's home sellers.
• A wake up call on water use.
• A green building market overview.
• Green for greenbacks.

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Futurehaus, New Economic Reality, Federal Green, + Knowledge Pool

• Futurehaus.
• Can you fit inside?
• Rethinking the mall.
• It's a landfill -- and an ecopark!
• New economic reality for green home builders.
• Cities rush to use $3.2 B worth of federal green.
• Green building sector must pool knowledge.
• Energy management is next green apartment amenity.
• The LEED Platinum guarantee.

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Climate Positive, Hunting Materials, Original Preservation, + Ideal Green

• Passivhaus for beginners.
• Preservation is the original green.
• Building new is not building green.
• 6 prefab houses that could change home building.
  
• Transform your home into an energy-efficient abode.
• Small wind turbine sales grew rapidly last year.
• Clinton Climate Initiative: build climate positive communities.
• Scientists hunt for green building materials.
• Designing stadiums with the environment in mind.
• Ideal green homes from across the pond.

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Solar Payback, Using Greywater, LEED Overhaul, + Green Roof Costs

• A smaller world.
• Solar carbon payback.
• Shades of using greywater.
• LEED's latest overhaul: itself.
  
• Requirements, choices, and carrots.
• Are green roofs worth the expense?
• Boulder County eases green building rules.
• Rewards make green building worth effort.
• Durability = top green product attribute.
• Green buildings to save $500B by 2030?

Congratulations to OJ for winning The Thoreau You Don't Know in our giveaway this week.  Watch for additional giveaways coming soon. 

Marketing Eco Homes, Green Products, Earth Emancipated, + Airtight Homes

• Top 10 green living myths.
• 12 tips for avoiding green product litigation.
• 10 practical strategies for marketing green homes.
• How to find cash back for building green.
• Who will be left behind by the green job boom?
• Airtight homes invite air quality issues.
• Biodiesel and building green.
• The emancipated earth.

Congratulations to JMan for winning Prefab Green in our giveaway this week.  Watch for additional giveaways coming soon. 

Nature Mimicry, Lower Sick Days, Fade to Gray, + Costly Designations

• Top ten green architecture twitters.
• Making sure green buildings don't fade to gray.
• Do green buildings really lower sick days?
• Nature's success inspires green building mimicry.
• Ground zero for the green housing movement.
• Builders, buyers differ on importance of green living.
• Green jobs transition from pure to natural capitalism.
• Green is an expensive designation.

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Affordable Efficiency, Green Design, Energy Labels, + Making Sense

• The Green Design 100.
• Smart meter, dumb idea?
• Affordable home efficiency?
• Green buildings make good business sense.
• Building integrated wind does not make sense.
• Real estate industry looks to green homes.
• Congress considers building energy label.
• Raising the bar for Energy Star Homes.
• Leadership needed from architects/designers.

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Building Future, Green Hotels, GSA Stimulus, + Recycled Countertops

• Have a green hotel stay.
• Building for a green future.
• Earth Day is for everybody, everyday.
• Developers often see green as a requirement.
• Get up to speed on the GSA's green stimulus.
• Going green with recycled countertops.
• Don't give up on sustainability now!

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