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Green Real Estate | Sustainable Eco Friendly Homes | Recycled rainwater, solar chimneys, rooftop gardens, geothermal cooling systems, solar panels, natural ventilation: These are just some of the tricks in an arsenal of design techniques builders are using to create structures that tread lightly on the earth.

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Green Building in Green Real Estate 

Sustainable building in the real estate marketplace.

Green BuildingGreen building is the practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings use resources — energy, water, and materials — while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal — the complete building life cycle.

A similar concept is natural building, which is usually on a smaller scale and tends to focus on the use of natural materials that are available locally. Other commonly used terms include sustainable design and green architecture.

The related concepts of sustainable development , sustainability, and green real estate are integral to green building. Effective green building can lead to 1) reduced operating costs by increasing productivity and using less energy and water, 2) improved public and occupant health due to improved indoor air quality, and 3) reduced environmental impacts by, for example, lessening storm water runoff and the heat island effect. Practitioners of green building often seek to achieve not only ecological but aesthetic harmony between a structure and its surrounding natural and built environment, although the appearance and style of sustainable buildings is not necessarily distinguishable from their less sustainable counterparts. Source

The NEXT Industrial Revolution 

"Eco-efficiency," the current industrial buzzword, will neither save the environment nor foster ingenuity and productivity, the authors say. They propose a new approach that aims to solve rather than alleviate the problems that industry makes.

Eco-Friendly Industrial RevolutionIn the spring of 1912 one of the largest moving objects ever created by human beings left Southampton and began gliding toward New York. It was the epitome of its industrial age—a potent representation of technology, prosperity, luxury, and progress. It weighed 66,000 tons. Its steel hull stretched the length of four city blocks. Each of its steam engines was the size of a townhouse. And it was headed for a disastrous encounter with the natural world.

This vessel, of course, was the Titanic—a brute of a ship, seemingly impervious to the details of nature. In the minds of the captain, the crew, and many of the passengers, nothing could sink it.

One might say that the infrastructure created by the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century resembles such a steamship. It is powered by fossil fuels, nuclear reactors, and chemicals. It is pouring waste into the water and smoke into the sky. It is attempting to work by its own rules, contrary to those of the natural world. And although it may seem invincible, its fundamental design flaws presage disaster. Yet many people still believe that with a few minor alterations, this infrastructure can take us safely and prosperously into the future. [read the Atlantic.com article]

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Ecology and Green Real Estate 

Integrating the developer into the home purchase.

Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate

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Book Description
"Green Development is good for business. Tenants, owners, purchasers, and brokers are all becoming more sophisticated and are realizing the financial and social benefits of green product." --Gerald Hines, Chairman of Hines.
Environmentally responsible real estate development makes dollars and sense. Green Development describes an exciting new field in which environmental considerations are viewed as opportunities to create fundamentally better buildings and communities--more comfortable, more efficient, more appealing, and ultimately more profitable.
If you're a developer, architect, planner, contractor, lender, or city official, this book speaks your language. Every stage of the development process is examined in detail: market research, site planning, design, approvals, financing, construction, marketing, and occupancy. Also included are lists of project statistics and contacts, books and other information sources, and development strategies.
Based on 80 case studies drawn from Rocky Mountain Institute's extensive worldwide research and consulting work, Green Development distills proven procedures and practical lessons that work in the real world.
Book Info
Describes an exciting new field in which environmental considerations are viewed as opportunities to create fundamentally better building and communities. Examines every stage of development process, from market research and design to construction and occupancy. DLC: Real estate development - Environmental aspects - U.S.

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HenryE wrote...

I work for a geothermal heating and air conditioning company in Florida and we are actively spreading the word about alternative energy sources. Are you aware of the huge tax incentives available for many of the upgrades?

Henry
www.geothermalexperts.net

ReplyPosted May 15, 2009

GreenRednecks wrote...

Great information on an important topic. We will be hearing much more about green building and green real estate.

ReplyPosted May 04, 2009

TheGreenerMe wrote...

I wish more lenses about green building and real estate existed! Welcome to A Million Ways to Go Green.

ReplyPosted April 30, 2009

lakeerieartists wrote...

This is a new side of the green topic that I haven't much about. Thanks for sharing.

ReplyPosted April 11, 2009

ngl wrote...

I love this subject of green and sustainable building and real estate. Thanks for doing this lens, the article, "The Next Industrial Revolution" addresses the issue of certain misguided recycling practices; very thought provoking.
Thanks...

ReplyPosted February 15, 2009

 
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