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All real estate news isn't bad, however. With challenge comes great opportunity, and more and more builders, designers, real estate agents and homeowners are discovering that going green can help them get a leg up in tough times, as well as substantially decrease our environmental footprints, from carbon emissions to water and land use.

BSB Design, a firm that has created unique residential homes for over 40 years, has come up with an amazing new type of home that could benefit millions of people in underdeveloped nations: it’s called The Abod.

Fred Maas, President and CEO of Black Mountain Ranch LLC and Developer of Del Sur, an 1,800-acre "green" residential community in San Diego, Calif.,praised Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), John Ensign (R-NV) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) for introducing the "Clean Energy Stimulus Act." The Act extends expiring tax credits for renewable energy and energy efficiency.

In early February, Love Development of Alabama received the final approval for construction of the much anticipated project, Inspiration on Green Mountain.

For 35 years, John Garlow of Monongalia County, WV, has run a framing business, primarily for modular homes, and he's still doing that, but he's changing his ways. Last year he started a business called EcoStructures. His goal is to build affordable modular homes that are completely off the grid, homes he says would sell for $100-$200K. Garlow is building his first EcoStructure.

A green builder in Europe is riding the "green" train, but are they?

For every 100,000 visitors between now and July 1st, we’ll fund the complete training of a local Burkina Faso mason to build houses for families that need them.

We’re going to fund up to 20 masons (for now).

Two of Britain's leading energy suppliers have signed agreements with companies aiming to put mini-power stations into Britain's homes.

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Working closely with various partners in the property business ranging from Estate Agents to Mortgage Brokers we look to make the purchase of your first home a pleasurable experience rather than a stressful one

Tankless water heaters lower operating costs and never run out of hot water because they heat water as you need it instead of storing it in a tank. Tankless water heaters can lower household energy bills by up to 40 percent.

Yet again we see state legislation on climate change issues before federal. So what was it this time? California is planning to introduce energy neutral homes as the standard for new construction starting by 2020.

Duncan Prahl, Director of Research, IBACOS Inc., outlines the performance of several systems around the U.S. that use solar energy to produce household hot water.

Paul Garvison, Director of Business Development, BP Solar North America describes how home builders are implementing solar power in their construction and how other builders can take advantage of solar.

Some of these alternative housing methods are extremely useful to the earth, as everyday trash can be used to build an entire house, or a natural material can be used, and then recycled when the house is ready to be torn down.

Nothing could be finer than sitting with cocktails at sunset on the treehouse deck, chatting with my wife about the day’s learnings. Most often, we come round to morsels of science and insight that crossed our screens this day. Some days, it’s the crunch, others it’s the crew. Always, it’s about connecting our work with the world’s transformational trajectory. And, we weep for our grandkids. Not just for wot we know their planet will be like, but especially for wot we don’t know we don’t know about the terrestrial triggers our epoch has fingered and fired.