Still, research suggests that green homes pay off when it comes time to sell.
Most of his clients requesting high-end green homes have not sought certification.
But the economics of mass-producing green homes like Priuses didn't work.
Manheim Neighborhood Association President Rodney Knott shared his vision for building more green homes and training neighborhood folks in construction, so they are able to rehabilitate abandoned properties in the area.
Firms often subcontracted manufacturing to different factories and achieved neither economies of scale nor the standardization necessary to mass-produce green homes, according to Allison Arieff, a former editor in chief of Dwell magazine and an influential figure in the modern prefab movement.
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Deputy Green said homes should be ready for families by 2015.
In the UK, the government's housing green paper "Homes for the future: More affordable, more sustainable", supports the piloting of 14 CLTs across the country.
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Plans to build 450 homes on green belt land in Nottinghamshire have been approved, despite local opposition.
Mrs Hutchings responded to Mr Cleggs comments, saying Eastleigh's Lib Dems have plans for a further 3, 300 homes on green land.
The decommissioned refineries themselves, filled with clusters of these uber-green multi-unit homes, could potentially be transformed into entire self-sustaining, clean-energy generating communities.
Green certification is awarded by a number of programs, including LEED for Homes, Energy Star and NAHB Green.
San Francisco-based Recurve performs home energy audits and does green remodeling projects for existing homes.
People tack on all manner of technology to their homes to be green: solar panels, 100-foot-deep geothermal heat pipes and computerized climate zones.
Yet people using the Green Deal to insulate their homes have to borrow at about 7% - although home insulation is massively labour-intensive.
Outline planning permission has been granted to a partnership led by Mr McCloud to convert the Cashes Green Hospital site into 78 homes.
The water company said that approximately 15 homes in Leverstock Green were affected and that during peak demand times, they may have no water.
He attests that to the real estate downturn and downward trend in home values, as well as an increasing interest in green and energy-efficient homes.
Plans to build extra homes on the green belt in Bath and the surrounding area are to be discussed by councillors who say their current target is too small.
To get a LEED certification, for instance, homes collect points for green features, such as energy-efficient light bulbs and water-saving toilets.
Sita said the plant would treat waste in a more cost-effective and environmentally-friendly way and generate green electricity to power thousands of homes.
The Wirral Waters scheme includes plans for high rise-buildings, green spaces and 13, 000 homes built on 1.7m sq m of land around the borough's docklands.
Midtown Terrace on the edge of Twin Peaks is also very popular, as is Miraloma Park, which is near Glen Canyon Park, very green and filled with single family homes.
On the green front, all steel-framed Connect:Homes are designed to attain LEED Silver certification out the door, with Gold and Platinum certification and net-zero energy status a possibility depending on additional bells and whistles added at the installation site.
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In the Sept. 12 issue of Forbes, I write about Blu Homes, a Massachusetts startup that makes green prefab houses that fold up in the factory for shipping and are unfolded on site and bolted to a foundation in a day (see video at end of this post).
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He said the planning system should produce homes and jobs, as well as protecting green spaces, but the new plans "may end up doing neither".
"What the Conservatives would end up doing is having lots of in-fill developments of a few homes here and there across a rash of green spaces, " he added.
Tuesday's early morning arrests for violent disorder were carried out at homes in Tipton, West Bromwich, Brownhills and Acocks Green.
Since a green paper was published in 2008, more than 1, 300 homes have been insulated through the Energy Efficiency Service.
Last year the government rejected a previous project, which included more than 1, 000 homes, as it would be "inappropriate in the green belt".
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