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• Green Financing Updates And Tips For Homes

  
  Chicagoland Real Estate Forum — Authority: 128
  As Chicago real estate enters its traditional deep freeze of January, thankfully FHA’s Energy Efficient Mortgages (EEM’s) financing tools have been retained for home buyers in 2010.   As many as 55% of entry level home buyers reported that they used FHA loans for purchasing their home in 2009.Fannie Mae and ...
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• The Green MLS Comes to Chicagoland Real Estate

  
  Chicagoland Real Estate Forum — Authority: 128
  Were pleased to share developing news that Northern Illinois Mulitple Listing Service (MLS), will be adding support for green building features in 2010. Real estate professionals will need to be prepared by taking education through NAR GREEN or Eco Broker courses.
  4 days ago

• You Can Buy a Green Home or Make Your Own Home Green

  
  About.com Home Buying / Selling — Authority: 119
  Many environmentally conscious home builders are crafting green homes by using green building materials. Even if youre not in the market to buy a green home, though, you can help to stop global warming and protect the environment when you replace old appliances or remodel. My husband never quite forgave me when ...
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• Green Homes | The Basic 10 of Green Construction Part V

  
  Green Healthy Home — Authority: 109
  This is the conclusion of a series of articles on the basic components of good green home construction. Having covered orientation, sealing the building envelope, insulation, efficient HVAC equipment, energy-saving appliances, upgraded windows, water conservation, and indoor air quality, we wrap up with durability and ...
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• Green Homes | The Basic 10 of Green Construction Part IV

  
  Green Healthy Home — Authority: 109
  The 6 aspects of good green construction that we’ve discussed in parts I through III of this series all have a direct affect on energy conservation, a large part of green building. These next two components address building a healthy home and reducing the usage and subsequent cost of water. 7 – Water. Water ...
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• Green Homes | The Basic 10 of Green Construction Part III

  
  Green Healthy Home — Authority: 109
  The fundamental elements of green construction result in energy conservation, water conservation, improved indoor air quality, and a more durable structure. Having covered orientation and design, sealing the building envelope, improving the insulation, and upgrading the HVAC system in the first two articles, we ...
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• Green Homes | The Basic 10 of Green Construction Part II

  
  Green Healthy Home — Authority: 109
  The previous article was the first in a series designed to explain the basic components of good green home construction. We started with home orientation and design and discussed sealing the building envelope. 3—Proper and Thorough Insulation : Once a tight shell has been created by caulking and sealing all ...
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• More Than Just a Light Bulb Moment with Energy Circle

  
  Green and Clean Mom — Authority: 123
  During the holiday season it’s hard to keep money in my pocket. I have holiday dinners, events, presents, decorations, and the same old unwanted BILLS.  Luckily my sister pointed me to an email from Paul Smith from Green Smith Consulting about  a web site that provides energy efficient information and products ...
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• Green Homes | The Basic 10 of Green Construction – Pt 1

  
  Green Healthy Home — Authority: 109
  It’s hard to go for 24 hours these days without hearing something about green—green lifestyles, green products, green buildings. So what does it mean to build a green house? To homeowners, green means a water-conserving, more durable, healthier, and more energy-efficient home. To planet Earth, green buildings mean ...
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• Chicago’s Yannell House Makes Builder Magazine’s Favorite 2009 New Homes Top Ten

  
  Chicagoland Real Estate Forum — Authority: 128
  Chicago’s LEED-H Platinum home in the north-side neighborhood of Ravenswood with it’s unique design made Builder Magazine’s Top Ten Coolest houses in 2009.  Built with just about every green innovation on a traditional Chicago lot near the Ravenswood Metra stop on the North shore line, the Yannell House is as ...
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• Modern Energy Efficient Homes Have Poor Air Circulation

  
  GreenPacks.org — Authority: 535
  Energy efficiency is great, but it seems that people have lately been sacrificing a lot more than usual for it. About a year ago, it became known that air circulation is negatively affected by the designs in today’s energy-efficient houses. They’re built very airtight, and include all sorts of materials and ...
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• DIY Eco-Friendly Dual Flush Toilet Retrofit Kit

  
  Really Natural — Authority: 124
  40% of indoor water use is consumed by toilets. Youve probably experienced the need to double flush on a super low flow toilet or the rush of gallons of water on an older toilet model. Brondell has a solution: the PF100-W Perfect Flush, Eco-Friendly Dual Flush Toilet Retrofit Kit . This retrofit kit installs ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sweet Modernism: 6 Holiday Gingerbread House Designs

  
  Dornob — Authority: 573
  [ See more under More or in the Art of Design category ] From Prairie School and Mid-Century Modernist to Contemporary  Eco-Friendl y  mini-homes with cutting edge green (and red) technology, this is (chocolate, cookie and candy) innovation of the sweetest variety. Hardwood gingerbread floors, ...
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• Green Real Estate in San Diego

  
  Picture Perfect San Diego — Authority: 129
  Well, I’m embarking on a new adventure in real estate…. an educational journey on “green” real estate. After reading Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman, I became convinced that the merits of saving our environment through “green” principles was important.If you are interested in learning more about ...
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• Natural Laundry Detergent Vaska Uses Herbs to Clean

  
  Really Natural — Authority: 124
  Vaska Scent Free Laundry Detergent was created by fashion designer Julia Fry. Using "advanced botanical solutions" in a formula Julia calls "herbatergent", Vaska laundry detergent is safe for your skin and greywater/septic systems. BENEFITS Biodegradable : Wont contaminate septic tanks or groundwater. Hypo ...
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• Secret Garden: Sublime Japanese Green-Roof Deck Design

  
  Dornob — Authority: 573
  [ See more under Patios & Decks or in the Interiors category ] Like another living layer on top of the core concrete structures and wooden support buildings, this extensive (and intensive) green roof system is more than just a sustainable building strategy – it is a way of connecting people and ...
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• UK Home Owners Spending More Money on Going Green

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 141
  New figures now show that home owners seem to be spending more money on green proofing their homes. Spending on green goods has actually increase by 5 percent, with each household spending an average of £251 on environmentally friendly products. This is great news for the UK, which has set some pretty high carbon ...
  3 weeks ago

• Straw Bale Home Building Primer

  
  Raisingspaces — Authority: 99
  So you want to build your own straw bale home.  You’ve seen them in green home building books and on TV shows, you saw green home builders wax poetic about their homes low impact on the environment and connection to the local ecology.  You’ve researched all the possible alternative home building techniques and ...
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• Rob Schneider’s San Marino Cottage: Celebrity Real Estate

  
  Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online Real Estate — Authority: 141
  Comic actor Rob Schneider stepped on the scene when he was cast as a regular on Saturday Night Live in the 90’s. He later went on to star in and co-write Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and The Hot Chick. Schneider also took a role alongside Adam Sandler, a friend he frequently collaborates with, and [...]
  4 weeks ago

• 4 Ideas For Green Home Upgrades

  
  New Homes Section Blog — Authority: 124
  Green is the word for homes as we head into the second decade of the 21st century. Energy efficiency isn’t only good for the environment, but it’s economically feasible as well in the long run. Up front, some of the changes you might want to make can seem costly, but the benefits later [...]
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