Live Green Now

Environment and Real Estate-2 of my favorite obsessions-not doing well in Florida

An entertaining, though scary overview of problems south http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1821648-3,00.html

In a recent article in the Georgia Straight, City Councillor Susan Anton was quoted advocating that new homes be required to be clothes line ready. Anton pointed out the many reasons why clothes lines are not only cost effective but also very environmentally friendly. She is quoted as saying: "I think laundry on a line is a beautiful sight," but unfortunately many rental units, and condomin ...

Well it is great that the City is moving towards a Green Building Strategy/Green Homes Program. As BC's first (and I think still only) certified EcoBroker, I see a lot of this type of thing across the United States where building green seems to have caught on a lot more than here. Its great to see us slowly catching up. Apparently the changes which will come into affect Sept 5/08 will incr ...

As you can see from the graph below, not only have we been continually exceeding all time market highs for the past few years, we now seem to be receding and heading into a slower market. Of course this is to be expected as a market cannot continue to go up forever; however it seems it is fueled a lot more by media reports instilling fear in consumers than real economic conditions that one wo ...