10 Easy green tips for Charlottesville
Adding simple green components to your home can add immediate value not only for you, but from a resale value perspective as well. Hint: buyers are asking about green features in homes. 1 - Rain recapture/harvesting systems and at the Rivanna Store 2 - Small…
These cities may have green condos, but Charlottesville will have a LEED-certified development
From CNN Money (h/t: Move): As environmental building becomes more popular, condo developers are selling their "green" credentials to cost and ecology-conscious consumers.Cost and ecology-conscious consumers are no longer necessarily mutually exclusive. More and more, they go hand-in-hand. Via a press release yesterday: ... Belvedere,…
Home Sales down in Charlottesville – expanded
I was going to wait until mid-June to run the numbers for the numbers for the Charlottesville-area real estate market, but it's like someone put out a press release or something, as the same story is now seen across the local Charlottesville media. From the…
Earthcraft in Charlottesville
Charlottesville Tomorrow continues to provide quality information, this time a good six-minute video on EarthCraft homes in the Charlottesville area: If only we can move from building to 2300 square foot homes (or less) rather than 3,700 square feet (PDF) ... That the Blue Ridge…
Market demand for green building in Charlottesville
Yesterday I had a request for market data regarding green homes in the Charlottesville area. Someone is trying to gauge market demand for green building in the area. Right now there is a media blitz in Charlottesville for green homes. The Real Estate Weekly, newcomer…
My own little green carnival
The first in a series of infrequent but regular green carnivals here ... just a few stories culled from my feedreader. I've said it before; the majority of people will not "go green" simply because it's the "right thing to do," but if there is…
EcoBroker in the news
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…
Charlottesville Green Carnival
This is the first in what I hope will be the occasional yet frequent Charlottesville Green Carnival - a place to highlight, ever-so-briefly green happenings. Green Matters - now advertising information clinics in the C-Ville Weekly Sunbiosis - A Charlottesville green architect that popped up…
Another Charlottesville-area green development
And the Wall Street Journal noticed. I have been trying to contact the folks at Bundoran Farm for weeks on behalf of a client, and coincidentally I get a call back on the same day that this article appears in the WSJ. In addition to…
The power to change – Cville leads the way
The recent surge of activity locally and elsewhere towards green building will impact the back-end of the building industry writes Francesco DeParis. I have written before about the power small-towns will have in the future as the alternative energy/efficiency landscape progresses, and we are now…