I said it the other day, and I’ll say it with conviction now. Builders who aren’t building green will by 2008/2009 will be left behind by those who are.
How much more mainstream can one get than the Wall Street Journal?
Summing up where I have been for the past couple of years –
Susan Singer says her EcoBroker designation puts her “ahead of the curve in a good way, and kind of in a bad way.” Good because Ms. Singer, a Corcoran Group agent in Manhattan, says she now knows more about green real estate and how to sell it, but bad because there’s not a lot to sell. “My work right now is really educating developers,” says Ms. Singer.
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