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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.

 

By Marie Melsheimer

   
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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.

 

By Nicholas Soderburg

   
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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.

 

By Jon Castillo

   
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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.

 

By Timothy Treadwell

     
DEPARTMENTS
     
   
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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.

 

By Jackalyne Pfannensteil

   
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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.

 

By Doug Smeath

   
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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.

 

By Leonard Black

     

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