REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-Houses Shrink, But Some 'Must Haves' Remain

It is interesting, but no surprise given the economic times, that home buyers are purchasing smaller homes. Home buyers are still demanding a lot of features in a home despite a smaller package. Of note, energy efficient appliances and windows, and programmable thermostats.



REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-Houses Shrink, But Some 'Must Haves' Remain

Going Mainstream

Here is a link to a great post from Jed Peterson at Allard Ward Architects in Nashville about how we can take green design and construction mainstream.  Jed raises a lot of great questions that may only be answered in the future.  Read it here.

Nashville continues to be recognized for green efforts.

Most Nashvillians are familiar with a lot of the "green" progress that has been taking place in our city, but Nashville is becoming more and more recognized outside of our city.   Check out this article from Livability.com.  Read it here.

Mayor's Green Ribbon Council Report Card

The Mayor's Green Ribbon Committee has been one of Karl Dean's most interesting and bold initiatives while in office. It has certainly been interesting to see how many of the goals that the Green Ribbon Committee laid out have been accomplished. Either way, I can appreciate the the effort at least. Check out this article from the City Paper discussing how successful the committee has been. Click here to read.

Top 10 Green Building Products of 2009 from Waller Sustainability Blog

Cool list of the Top 10 Green Building Products of 2009.  Some are a little out there, but several could be applied to current home construction.  Check it out here.

"Zero" energy homes at Ft. Campbell

Pretty cool article about the effort to build LEED Platinum homes at Ft. Campbell. Nice to see the army going for it. The savings numbers were pretty impressive. Read more here.