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Broadstone Centreport, Texas |
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Located in Northern Texas, Broadstone Centreport is an eco-friendly apartment community built to Green Built North Texas's energy-efficient standards, a regional set of green building guidelines. Broadstone has the convenience of apartment living combined with single family home features and spacious interiors. |
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A Conservation Community: Prairie Crossing |
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EnviroCitizen.org recently became acquainted with yet another eco-conscious community. Prairie Crossing is known as the Conservation Community, and for good reason! Located in Grayslake, Illinois, Prairie Crossing was created to conserve open land, increase the availability of local transit and encourage its residents to take part in an eco-friendly lifestyle. |
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Accessible Homes |
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Though the title may seem a bit redundant, having an accessible home is a good investment as well as good for the Earth. What exactly is an accessible home? It is a home that is built and designed to accommodate the occupants in all phases of life. The book Univeral Home discusses this very topic. |
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Adobe Homes |
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The most ancient structures of the Southwest region of the United States that are still standing are represented in buildings made from adobe used in homes and missions, such as those in Southern California and Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
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Alta Design District |
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Dallas, in addition to other cities in northern Texas is on the path to going green. The Alta Design district is an artist colony as well as a green space. The motto of Alta Design is to live ahead of the curve. |
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AMLI 900 |
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The futuristic sounding name of these apartments is well fitting indeed. These apartments were designed for the future because of their green amenities. AMLI 900 has achieved LEED certification for several reasons. |
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An Overseas Example in Dubai: Green Communities in Motor City |
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Dubai is a city that has become world renowned for its appeal to tourists. The Motor City development, based in Dubai, is based on a motor-sport theme and includes residential units, business towers, motor-sports facilities, retail and a theme park. |
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Armory del Park |
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Arizona is noted for its warm weather. The state routinely has 100 plus degree days. The Armory Park del Sol development is a historic location that takes advantage of the Arizona sun to power the community. |
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Asa Flats |
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ASA features apartment amenities like no other apartment complex. The goal has been to provide a sense of community to the people who live in the apartments. As the ASA brochure says, “it feels more like a vertical community, than an apartment complex”. ASA was painstakingly designed to achieve LEED Gold Certification, and follows in the footsteps of Portland’s thoughtful environmental choices. Whether you need a studio, a one bedroom or a two-bedroom flat, a loft with your own private outdoo |
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Azotea Senior Apartments |
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Azotea Senior Apartments is the new construction of a 60 unit development in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The development features a combination of 14 one and two story buildings. In the buildings there is a variety of 24 one-bedroom apartments and 36 two-bedroom apartments. |
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Bates Street Senior Housing |
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Maine is often depicted as an idyllic place in lots of movies and books. What a lot of people don’t know about Maine is that there are some great eco-friendly developments on the way. Bates Street Senior Housing is a senior center combined with housing. It shows that even a place made for seniors can be green.
The Bates Street Senior Housing project is a 30,000 square-foot, three-story building on one acre of property in the heart of the Lewistown, Maine, inner city. It includes 30 units of |
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Best Communities to Find Green Rentals |
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EnviroCitizen.org has found that finding a green place to live is no small feat. It can be hard to find the optimal place by sorting fact from fiction. We have reviewed a few places that are worth considering if you are looking for a green rental. |
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Best Green Places to Retire |
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Choosing a place for retirement requires some research. You want to spend your remaining years as comfortable as possible, but you also need to be able to afford it. Green places to retire are getting popular because the relationship between environment and quality of life has been shown. |
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Blue Vista |
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Blue Vista is an award-winning, “built green”, mixed-income community of 198 single family, duplex and triplex homes. Phase I has 79 units varying in size from 580 square-feet, one-bedroom condominiums to 1,500 square-feet, four-bedroom duplex townhouses. |
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Bluebird 58- Portland, OR |
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Bluebird 58 is a unique living environment located in Portland that offers clean, healthy, low-impact living in the Pacific Northwest. The property is uniquely located at the end of a quiet street directly adjacent to a large city-owned agricultural preserve. This brings a nice blend of urban life with the country for the urbanite who wishes for something a little different. |
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Broadway Crossing |
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Seattle is known to be one of the greenest cities in America. While the cost of living there is going up, it still is possible to rent a property for a reasonable price. It is also comforting to know that the space you are renting is green. |
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Buying a Green Home Checklist |
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Home-buying can be confusing as well as stressful. It can seem even more confusing when you are looking for a green home. There is definitely a market for green homes with many styles to choose from. Here are a few tips to help you find that dream, green home.
Getting good help is the first step. With increased eco-awareness, and energy prices soaring, more people are worried about things like indoor air quality and energy efficiency in their homes. When screening potential realtors, try |
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Carter Woods Phase II |
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Many are under the misconception that living sustainably in retirement isn’t possible, especially in the South where retirement is known to be expensive. Carter Woods shows that this couldn’t be any further from the truth. Carter Woods is an affordable rental community in Eastern Henrico County just outside of Richmond. It is designed for senior citizens 62 years of age and older.
Phase I was completed in 2004 and consisted of 80 one- and two-bedroom apartments and community rooms which feat |
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Central Park at Stapleton |
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Colorado is becoming well known as a place where the green revolution is a way of life. Stapleton is an award-winning master planned community on a former airport site just outside of Denver. It was designed as a sustainable community. It is planned to accommodate 12,000 homes and 13 million square feet of commercial space over the next 15 years.
When the airport closed, local officials, developers, community members and environmentalists met to discuss the best use for the site. They conclu |
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Choosing a Green Golf Course |
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Golf courses have a reputation for being bad for the environment. It is easy to see why eco-friendly golf courses seem like an oxymoron. They, however, have become popular in many places. Several golf courses in the Twin Cities, Florida, New Mexico and other areas have been developed using sustainable concepts. These are courses that have been built after nature’s own principles.
For years, the mantra of most golf courses has been “the greener the better”. But that has come at a price. T |
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