real estate
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Sea-level rise threatens 13 million Americans. Can FEMA help?
Managed retreat has been on the fringe of the climate change strategy since the 1980s. It’s about to have a moment.
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Rising seas could wipe out $1 trillion worth of U.S. homes and businesses
A new report says that $1 trillion of U.S. real estate is at risk from rising waters.
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Ten affordable neighborhoods-in-progress will design to LEED-ND standards under grant program
A series of grant winners are leading efforts to strengthen surrounding neighborhoods.
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U.S. homes are right-sizing and greening
Are McMansions going the way of the Hummer? Not entirely, Kaid Benfield suspects, but he does think demand for them is dropping.
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China is leaving the U.S. in the dust as it surges ahead on clean energy
Even as China overtakes the U.S. in the dubious category of “world’s leading greenhouse gas producer,” it is also well ahead of the U.S. in developing the technologies and policies to solve the problem — and selling those solutions to us at massive profits which could have been ours. On a recent trip, I saw […]
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One man’s plan to re-create suburbia, sans cars
California’s East Bay — the collection of towns, cities, and suburbs across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco — has a lot to boast about. There’s the perpetually great weather, enlightened inhabitants, and a halfway decent, if in my opinion overpriced, public transit system in the form of BART. Yet despite BART’s 43 stations spanning […]