Keyword: green
Home Energy Score Cards – Should a MPG like System be a part of Real Estate?
Home Energy Score Cards I was recently invited to sit in on lengthy discussion with Tennessee’s energy provider TVA along with their consulting firm out of Washington to discuss the feasibility of implementing a residential energy score card system in our state. After about an hour of hearing the miles per gallon correlation and how much that has helped the ...
Passive Homes- Higher building standards do Green more aggressively
They are also gaining market share and national press. I ran in to this article last week about Passive Houses in USA Today and it seems worthy of passing along. A Passive Home is a new to the US building standard but long utilized in Europe that boasts reduced energy consumption of around 90% compared to homes built to today’s ...
Real Estate Blog Inspiration: City Sustainability Rankings
NRDC Releases Interactive Site The National Resources Defense Council has just published their recent rankings for city sustainability and features interactive maps and great searchability. If you’re looking for something to write about on your local real estate blog, do a search for your own city and see how you rank and talk about what your city has done to ...
New 2012 AGBeat media kit available now
- We know you want the most sophisticated audience, and here it is!
That’s Some Baaad Sausage!
How does this … … Become this??? With the caveats that: – Picking and choosing lines from an amendment is probably not fair, – I have not read the entire bill nor amendment (nor have any of our elected “representatives”), – Compromises and selling constituents’ best interests are accepted best practices and that, – I’m no politician … What in ...
What Tone of GREEN Are You?
The latest fad in the Realtor designation world is some kind of Green designation. From Eco-broker to NAR’s latest Green Sustainable Designation. I commend everyone that goes out and spends time and effort to obtain these designations but what does it all really mean? I’ve seen a few Realtors getting the designation for no other reason than to get it ...
Vote With Your Dollars
Events That Led Up To This… This week stacked up perfectly to tell me what to write about on here. Early this week, I instructed a group of people on how to be “Green” real estate professionals. Covering the various national and regional certifications, tips for their business and building techniques, they walked away with a new outlook on their ...
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