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    As an early leader in net-zero production homes, KB Home is paving the way toward affordable–even cost-neutral–high-performance features.

  • The Economics of Sustainability

    Video explores economic shifts required to change course toward sustainability.

  • Financing for Multifamily Retrofits

    Living Cities, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation study demonstrates energy and financial savings from multifamily project upgrades in New York.

  • ACEEE: The Savings Potential of Standards

    New study says updates to national efficiency standards can provide substantial financial and environmental benefits.

  • The Home Depot Launches LEED Website

    New green product database communicates sustainability at the retail level.

  • Market View: C.R. Herro of Meritage Homes

    As vice president of energy efficiency and sustainability at Top 10 production home builder Meritage Homes, Herro has led his company’s mission to bring high-performance homes into the marketplace, and sell them.

  • Market Acceptance of High-Performance Homes

    DOE Building Technologies Program chief architect Sam Rashkin reflects on his experience growing the Energy Star program in the U.S. and what lessons it brings, similarly, to the growth of the Passive House Standard in the nation’s building market.

  • Message To The Market

    As vice president for Residential Market Development for the USGBC’s LEED for Homes program, Nate Kredich has a unique perspective on the path toward market transformation for high-performance homes.

  • SAVE Act Addresses Green Finance and Appraisals

    Analysis shows that legislation could increase market transformation by 2% in 2013 and create 25% sustained levels by 2020.

  • Code Compliance

    IMT estimates that every dollar spent on energy code compliance and enforcement yields $6 in energy savings.