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Can you imagine creating buildings that generate more energy than they use? Clean the air? Clean the water?
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Can you imagine creating buildings that generate more energy than - - PDF document
Can you imagine creating buildings that generate more energy than - - PDF document
5/19/2011 Can you imagine creating buildings that generate more energy than they use? Clean the air? Clean the water? WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM NATURE? BUILDING IN NATURES IMAGE 1 5/19/2011 2 5/19/2011 Omega Center for Sustainable Living 6,200
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Omega Center for Sustainable Living
- 6,200 sqft
- Rhinebeck, NY
- classroom, laboratory, and a 4,500 square
foot greenhouse for Omega's living machine, the Eco Machine™
- Completion late 2009
- Living Building Challenge Participant
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What would it take for you to change the course of your current business practices to be part of solution for increased building performance?
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What might you say to banks and financiers to encourage them to align with long term energy and environmental savings?
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Works at Residential Why not Commercial? PACE (Cont.)
What role do you see Maine Real Estate professionals taking to help create a better built environment?
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High Performance Building
Function
Traditional Building
Time Form Economics
Function
One that embraces Sustainability as a key component of the Real Estate Business Change the approach from Traditional Real Estate to….