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Environment
Home, Efficient Home: Europe Mandates Energy Grades for Houses
You wouldn't buy a car without knowing what kind of gas mileage it gets. But when it comes to homes, we don't pay as much attention to energy...
Cities
One Way to Make Smart Housing Affordable
Mortgage lenders should make it easier to buy in compact, mixed-used neighborhoods, because they're cheaper to live in. Grist
Environment
An Excellent Home Energy Efficiency Pyramid
The Minnesota Power utility gets credit for this informative graphic on the steps to home energy efficiency. The things at the bottom of the...
Design
Is the Age of Flipping Houses Over?
A novel concept: Instead of designing homes for resale value, design them for people to live in. New York Times
News
Energy Efficient Homes Are Also Cost-Effective
A study conducted last year provides yet another line of defense for the PACE programs shut down by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. According to the...
Business
Another Bubble: Home Sizes
Ezra Klein's "Research Desk" pulls together some data on home sizes in the United States and abroad. American houses are larger than their...
Design
The Tiny Transforming Apartment
As we've mentioned before, Hong Kong tenement apartments are often tiny. See how this architect rigged his space with sliding walls and hidden...
Cities
Mapping the Hidden Costs of the Suburbs
Living in the suburbs often looks like the cheaper housing option-until you factor in the cost of transportation, that is. The Center for...
Cities
Chicago Housing Project's Demolition in Stop-motion
Back in 2008, GOOD dedicated a long feature to Chicago's problematic Cabrini-Green housing project. The project's 660 W. Division building just...
Cities
Gated Communities Aren't So Great
You know those "gated communities"? The usually upmarket, walled-off residential developments that offer their own amenities and, sometimes,...
Culture
"Killing in the Name" Is Christmas Song Number One
Every year in the United Kingdom they rank the top record singles during the week before Christmas and anoint one song as the "Christmas number...
Cities
Ideas for Cities: Slumlord Redemption Program
Slumlord Redemption Program Cities should creare a slumlord redemption program to rehabilitate slumlords, and motivate them beyond money to care...
Environment
Calculate the Renewable Energy Potential of Your Backyard
TreeHugger turns us on to a new online tool for measuring the potential impact of your home on renewable energy numbers: The National Renewable...
Environment
How Much Space Do You Take Up?
TreeHugger is running a poll right now asking how many square feet your living space occupies: After our post on the couple who lived in 175...
Environment
Home Energy Generation Gets Better in Massachusetts
Massachusetts just made home energy generation, with solar panels or wind turbines, much more attractive. A law going into effect on Tuesday-part...
Cash for Caulkers
It makes sense to weatherize homes. Beefing up insulation and sealing leaks means less energy gets used to heat a house and less of that heat...
News
No One Likes the Homebuyer Tax Credit
It's tax policy time! The Homebuyer Tax Credit (official site here here) gives $8,000 of taxpayers' money to people buying new homes. It was about...
Environment
What a Green Job Looks Like
Buildings are actually responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than cars. But simply weatherizing houses and businesses can reduce their...
