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Community Profile—NorthWest Crossing
Award winning master-planned community, NorthWest
Crossing has incorporated sustainable practices throughout
from residential homes to commercial buildings and
retail shopping centers. The community's two newest
neighborhood center retail buildings were among the first
in Oregon to receive LEED-CS designation at a silver level.
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Development Profile:
The Schuster Group’s Mosler Lofts
Mixing urban lifestyles with ecological sensibilities the Mosler
Lofts project in Seattle, gets rewarded the Golden Nugget award.
The project showed that marketing “green” goes a long way with
a 90 percent occupancy rate within six-months of opening.
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Builder Profile: Pardee Homes
Responding to homebuyers’ desires, award winning builder,
Pardee Homes, gives residents of the Poppy Lane community
located in northern California the ability to choose the level
of “green” features in their homes. From energy-efficient
water heaters to low VOC interior paint the community
makes eco-friendly living as easy as it is beneficial.
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Feature—Green Renovation
New York's historic castle on the Hudson river goes green,
lessening the environmental footprint it will leave behind
and the skyrocketing energy costs which have nearly tripled.
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News
California adopts “green” Building Codes, the
Bush administration offers to relieve private
endangered-species conservationists of their
burden, and Al Gore will address The West Coast
Green conference—all in the news.
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California Energy Commission
Offering potential homebuyer's green homes
is getting easier in the state of California. Gov.
Schwarzenegger has partnered the California
Energy Commission with new homebuilders to
create a self-sustaining market for solar homes.
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USGBC
Green marketing is like that of any marketing
campaign in that it must be planned out in
detail and executed with thoroughness. The
USGBC advises the housing industry on ways to
develop a successful green marketing plan.
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Sustainable Development: Atlanta
Atlanta is transitioning from a smog-stained city
in crisis to a “green” epicenter. With new mass
transit systems, “green” building projects, bike and
pedestrian friendly roads; Atlanta is making a
change for the better.
By Lisa Brewer
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Make it Pencil—Recycling Trends
As the popularity of expanded polystyrene grows
on job sites, so does the waste it creates. But new
technologies have created cost effective measures
to get it out of the landfill and give it a second life.
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