Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Financing Home 2.0
Building a Bright Green Future: Financing Home 2.0
While predatory lending practices in the mortgage industry have been getting a lot of press lately, there’s a far more positive trend within the same industry: green mortgages.
Jon Lebkowsky blogs:
“What do I know about finance? Though in these columns I focus on social media, I’m often in discussions about sustainability, and many of those focus on the built environment. I’m aware that big developers like Stratus here in Austin are completely serious about green buidling, and there are more and more LEED-certified construction projects in development, and various green building experts looking beyond LEED for better ways to ensure sustainable design and building.
Large construction projects are incentivized by the energy-efficiency ROI realized through green building practices, but how about smaller residential builders and buyers? Are there sufficient and completely clear bottom-line incentives for sustainable residential building and retrofitting? How is sustainable defined at that level?”
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