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Code Green – Building Code Upgrades in 2012 Sideline Old Homes
Added by Melissa Baldridge on November 17, 2012 at 2:29pm — 2 Comments
NEWS RELEASE - Denver Real Estate Company Unveils "Green" Window Stickers for Existing-Home Listings & Pilot Nets Top Dollar
Denver, Nov. 1, 2012: GreenSpot Real Estate recently launched its “GreenSpot” eco-makeover program for existing-home listings, including a “window sticker” showing the property’s…
ContinueAdded by Melissa Baldridge on October 31, 2012 at 6:28pm — 7 Comments
Green Cipherin' - What's Slowing the Mainstreaming of Green Building, and What Homeowners Can Do about It
MLSs (Multiple Listing Services) across the country are unveiling “green-field addenda” (GFAs) and searchable fields to highlight green features. …
Added by Melissa Baldridge on April 9, 2012 at 7:00pm — 2 Comments
Big Blue Goes Green - How 203Ks May Be the Future of Green Mortgages
When Sarah Coleman and Carl Sack first saw “Big Blue,” they knew they were home. The massive house, so named because all the rooms were painted shades of the color, was built in the 1920s on two and a half lots in the Corey-Merrill neighborhood of inner-city Denver.
But their…
ContinueAdded by Melissa Baldridge on March 27, 2012 at 8:00pm — 10 Comments
Metrolist, Colorado's 800-Pound Gorilla, Goes Green
On March 8, 2012, Metrolist, Denver’s real estate colossus, will finally unveil its “green-field addendum.” And it’s been a long time coming, says Jamil Dillon.
Dillon would know because he helped hatch the idea. He was the Residential Program Senior Associate at the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) in 2010 when he and green home builder Sean Smith began conversations with some Colorado MLSes, including Metrolist, to provide “green” and energy-efficient home-listing info. …
ContinueAdded by Melissa Baldridge on February 28, 2012 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment
Jumping the Hurdles to a Green MLS
Sean Smith was the man in the middle. – a key figure with a foot in both worlds of business and “green.”
A high-end general contractor, he built two LEED-certified homes in the Washington Park neighborhood of Denver in 2009. At an educational session he hosted there, the U.S. Green Building Council approached him to serve on a committee. “If you’re doing big-picture things, I’m all over it,” he told them.
At a subsequent meeting at the Governor’s Energy…
ContinueAdded by Melissa Baldridge on November 10, 2011 at 8:49am — 6 Comments
Creating Shared Value - The Future of Business
“Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.”
-Chinese proverb
Let’s say you own a waterfront business that invests the time and resources to teach that man or woman to fish. You routinely offer “Fishing 101” classes. Your…
Added by Melissa Baldridge on October 18, 2011 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments
Housing Bale-Out - Boulder Architect Streamlines Green Building
Straw-bale houses have come a long way since Midwestern homesteaders used to stack sod on the Great Plains and call it home. More recently, 20th century straw-bale builders were either crunchy, granola types hand-crafting their own über-green homes, or affluent greenies seeking to create off-grid trophy houses, budgets be damned. In all cases, though, straw-bale has been the preserve of the one-off – designed and built one at a time. Until now.
One…
ContinueAdded by Melissa Baldridge on September 14, 2011 at 10:51am — 1 Comment
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- Green Cipherin' - What's Slowing the Mainstreaming of Green Building, and What Homeowners Can Do about It
- Big Blue Goes Green - How 203Ks May Be the Future of Green Mortgages
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