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Title: "Certified Green" Home
Post by: Kiah on January 12, 2009, 07:26:43 am
Builder To Debut Certified Green Home (http://"http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=9654856")

What a joke.

". . . certified 'Green' by the National Association of Homebuilders."

That's like a henhouse that's "certified a 'Fox-Proof' by the National Association of Foxes (NAOF)."



Title: "Certified Green" Home
Post by: RecycleMichael on January 12, 2009, 08:41:13 am
Maybe they are going to paint the home a green color.


Title: "Certified Green" Home
Post by: OurTulsa on January 12, 2009, 12:06:58 pm
First 'Green' home?  Really?

Didn't Ch. 6 cover provide quite a bit of coverage on the NINE project near Cherry St?  Have they forgotten already...

Maybe NINE's LEED Platinum rating goes beyond 'Green' to a whole other color.



Title: "Certified Green" Home
Post by: Townsend on January 12, 2009, 12:43:01 pm
"They've gone to plaid"


Title: "Certified Green" Home
Post by: TheTed on January 12, 2009, 01:26:48 pm
Whoever moves in there will probably be another example of being "green" without actually changing any part of their daily lifestyle. What's the point of a "green" house in a sprawling subdivision in BA?

Isn't it "greener" to live in a drafty old place on Cherry Street, where you can walk and take the bus places rather than driving 10 miles in your SUV every time you leave your house?

All this "green" marketing makes me violently ill.



Title: "Certified Green" Home
Post by: carltonplace on January 12, 2009, 01:38:07 pm
Going Green certainly has a lot more to it than buying a house that has "you know..that stuff" installed. Try walking or biking for short trips to the store or put your kids on the bus to school, recycle, stop putting yard waste on the curb, seal around your windows and doors, turn off a light.


Title: "Certified Green" Home
Post by: carltonplace on January 12, 2009, 02:14:35 pm
Does the Oxy Clean/Mighty Mend-it guy sell stuff like thatTM? If so then you know it has to be a great product.