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I hope you all have a great year and continue to push for a Greener Future.

After fierce criticism, the city is dropping a plan that would have required older buildings — those measuring 50,000 square feet or more —to perform energy audits and subsequent efficiency upgrades.

So if plants and trees have natural occurring formaldehyde how can it really be completely free?

This is an article posted in CalFinder and Taylen Peterson asked me to share this with you. This article shows some great Solar companies in the market and hopefully is gets you thinking more about solar power.

The home building industry reached an important milestone this week when the 500th project earned National Green Building Certification by the NAHB Research Center

I have spent the last 20 years in the home building industry. I have seen many changes in that time, but the biggest and fastest growing change is the increasing demand for Green Building

Home construction inevitably impacts the environment and finding ways to reduce this impact is very important.

Because green consumers are being stereotyped, and these myths we tested are embraced by marketers as facts, many green messages are falling on deaf ears

Andersen WIndows has made a statement in the world of green building by introducing a very environmentally friendly product.

Alen Corp. has launched the first earthfriendly
home air filter made exclusively out of recycled plastic drink bottles

Alen Corp holds strong to its founding vision of helping people live better as it leads to air quality

July 13, 2009 – Washington, DC – The iconic Empire State Building is going green – retrofitting its existing structure with today’s most efficient technology to reduce the building’s energy consumption by 38-percent.

I have created this article to share my best Green Factoidz with you. This is my favorite Green articles as of July 2009 that I have written. I hope you enjoy these Green articles and vote them up if you would like.

Green Washing is when a manufacturer, supplier or builder intentionally or unintentionally makes false, misleading or exaggerated claims about their products and the environmental benefits they may have.

If all U.S. households installed water-saving features, water use would decrease by 30 percent, saving an estimated 5.4 billion gallons per day. This would result in dollar-volume savings of $11.3 million per day or more than $4 billion per year.

The big concern that is not talked about in the many news articles is the fact that the U.S. is going to be faced with much higher priced material in the future.

If builders don’t change on their own, they said, it is likely that the government will come in and force them to build sustainably.

You go to the store several times a week and you are usually asked “paper or plastic” or you may even be the devout green, environmentally conscious person that brings your own, but what is the greenest grocery bag solution?

Home Builders are moving to Green with hopes to capture a small piece of this growing business. This is helping some but will it really help the overall situation and get this housing market out of this terrible spot.

As builders and remodelers retool their businesses in a tight credit market and recapture the interest of jittery consumers, this spring is the greenest yet for the nation’s home building industry, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).

Build Green Utah is leading the state in building homes for the future.

So what does Warren Buffet have to do with Prefab Homes? In an article posted May 8, 2009 in Environmental News Network, Warren Buffet is investing in Green Prefab Homes.

THE GORES GROUP, LLC ACQUIRES A MAJORITY STAKE IN STOCK BUILDING SUPPLY HOLDINGS, LLC

With the current frenzies in the building industry leading to price gouging and poor quality from builders scrambling to pick up business at any cost, GreenTech Design/Build maintains its’ competitive but friendly client-based building process.

Tankless systems have a lot to offer in efficiency. The Department of Energy has estimated that tankless systems can save from 24% to 35% on energy costs. But most of the tankless systems need special installation consideration.