How Much Are You Willing To Pay To Live Green?

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.

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March 20, 2005, 11:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen

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."

Thanks to Environmental News Network

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