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How Much Are You Willing To Pay To Live Green?

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Environmental News Network
20 March 2005 - 11:00am

Developers of a new urbanist community in western Wilsonville, Oregon want to ask its future residents how much they are willing to pay for using green technologies.

The development is already making a name for itself, he said. It is one of the first large-scale developments in the country to incorporate standards established by the U.S. Green Building Council at the master-plan level.

... [The developers] are holding a public meeting and open house ... to find from prospective Villebois homeowners just where the intersections of monthly mortgage payments and the latest sustainable building practices meet."

Full Story: Aim: To Measure Green against Green
Source: Environmental News Network, March 20, 2005
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