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MLS Listings Going Green

Friday, November 23rd, 2007 Posted in Housing | No Comments »

A little good news in an otherwise gloom and doom real estate market - the local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) that's used by realtors to list and search for houses, is going green. "Before this there was no way to specifically ...

Friday Wrap-Up: Into the Wind

Friday, October 19th, 2007 Posted in Activism, Design, Housing, Responsibility, Water | No Comments »

Holy Tornado Batman! It's been breezy as "all get out" in the Lou the last two days. I don't really know what that means but I think it makes me sound hip . . . I just blew it, didn't ...

St. Louis Green Guide and Modular Homes

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 Posted in Design, Housing, Sustainability | No Comments »

I trust everyone had a great Columbus Day weekend! Hey, if the dude didn't get lost . . . someone else would have run into the western world a few years later. Two-parter today . . . 1. Over the weekend, ...

NOLA, Two Years Later

Friday, October 5th, 2007 Posted in Development, Environment, Feature, Government, Housing, Sustainability | 5 Comments »

As I mentioned in a previous post, my wife and I traveled to New Orleans, LA this past weekend for a wedding. We were fortunate enough to be able to stay an extra day and take a tour of the ...

Greening the Homeless

Thursday, September 20th, 2007 Posted in Housing, Ideas, Society | 3 Comments »

In, "Rev. Larry Rice goes green in Dutchtown," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Tim Townsend tells us of the Reverend's plans to open "a center that would assist the homeless by giving them skills in the burgeoning field of renewable energy." One ...