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Everything you always wanted to know about green homes: An interview with Avrim Topel
greenbuildingelements.com - 3/30/2009
Everything you always wanted to know about green homes: An interview with Avrim Topel
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This post was originally posted on Eco-Libris blog on March 24. Green buildings have never been so popular, at least when it comes to public policy. Looking at the stimulus plan you see how a concept that until lately was relatively marginal suddenly becomes a significant policy tool, which ...
gbci.org - 4/1/2009
GBCI: Green Building Certification Institute
— gbci.org — Due to the unprecedented volume of candidates attempting to register for the LEED AP for New Construction and Commercial Interiors exams, the GBCI website has been experiencing technical difficulties. Due to these difficulties, only exam registration ... (more) GBCI: Green Building Certification Institute

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Everything you always wanted to know about green homes: An interview with Avrim Topel
MindBodyGreen — Everything you always wanted to know about green homes: An interview with Avrim Topel (greenbuildingelements.com) In the interview with Eco-Libris blog Avrim Topel talks about his personal experience, the benefits of green building, the costs, the importance of the LEED certification and how a home-building process transformed into a personal quest to share this experience and information with others. ...

The Financial Angle: Environmentalism Still Driven By Money
Red, Green, and Blue — ... approved in February contains items aimed at making everyone an environmentalist. Well, let’s say practical environmentalist. By offering tax incentives for a variety of home greening initiatives, Congress managed to both raise and lower my spirits around environmental issues: it’s great that people will have reason to save energy and live more efficiently, but I hate that the reason has to be money before anyone pays attention. ...

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