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businessgreen.com - 10/23/2009
US social enterprise unveils $4 billion green home plan
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Business Green: A US-based affordable housing developer plans to raise $4bn over the next five years to build and retrofit 750,000 residential, community and commercial buildings nationwide in a bid to make them more energy-efficient. The not-for-profit Enterprise Community Partners was founded ...
enterprisenextgen.org - 10/21/2009
Enterprise Green Communities
— enterprisenextgen.org — Join us to make all affordable housing green. Five years ago, Enterprise embarked on an ambitious initiative... to prove that the terms green and affordable housing were not mutually exclusive. Today, we’ve invested more than $700 million dollars in ... (more) Enterprise Green Communities

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GreenMonk: the blog — ... tags: 350, 350ppm, 350.org, greennumbers The Great Pacific Garbage Patch | ultraorange.net “I heard many times that our oceans are badly polluted – but this THING really is as impressive as it is a HUGE shame for us humans.” Click the image to see the infographic’s details. tags: greennumbers, gyre, great pacific garbage patch, pacific gyre US social enterprise unveils $4 billion green home plan – 23 Oct 2009 – ...

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