{"id":713,"date":"2009-10-04T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/green-future-or-fad"},"modified":"2009-10-04T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T20:45:00","slug":"green-future-or-fad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/housing-news\/green-future-or-fad\/","title":{"rendered":"Green – Future or Fad?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Energy Summit in Oklahoma City<\/em><\/p>\n

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We’re excited with last month’s Green Building Summit in Oklahoma City<\/a> on September 15. The Oklahoma State Home Builders Association<\/a> and the Oklahoma City Metro Association of Realtors<\/a> brought speakers from the energy-conservation field who educated participants in the strategies, and resources, available for sustainable building in Oklahoma .<\/p>\n

According to the summit’s official site<\/a>, the following topics were covered:<\/p>\n

\u2022 improved techniques for high-performance design and residential construction
\n\u2022 information on available tax credits for builders and homebuyers
\n\u2022 details of the NAHB Green Program and what makes a home green
\n\u2022 marketability of Green Homes in today’s economy
\n\u2022 the effect that greening the MLS will have on home sales
\n\u2022 incorporating green principles in their own living styles<\/p>\n

We think however, that Americans are generally not yet ready for a full fledged real estate greening campaign. Too many issues are still pressing homeowners – like the sub-prime mess, rising foreclosures, and evaporating home values. Attending a summit may not be on their priority list; more so, if they have to pay $40 for the two-day event. The government could have subsidized the costs of the summit, and brought admission prices down to an affordable level. In fact, low-income homeowners could have benefitted more from this summit – rather than those who receive higher take home pays.<\/p>\n

But we’re counting on the attendees to pass on what they have learned from the summit, through word of mouth and online tools. That’s a huge step in bringing to mainstream America the efforts of the federal government and the concerned private institutions in ecologically sensitive consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Energy Summit in Oklahoma City We’re excited with last month’s Green Building Summit in Oklahoma City on September 15. The Oklahoma State Home Builders Association and the Oklahoma City Metro Association of Realtors brought speakers from the energy-conservation field who educated participants in the strategies, and resources, available for sustainable building in Oklahoma . According …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}