Comments on: Instant House: LEED Certified Pre-Fab in Benton Park West & Tower Grove East

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:55:30 +0000

EcoUrban’s first home will soon be getting just the 5th LEED Platinum certification in the USA. These guys are doing it right. I just checked out the house last weekend and it was awesome!

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 14 May 2007 18:46:16 +0000

Great caution to buyers trying to sort through green marketing - good call. The best way to avoid “green washing” and the abuse of this kind of advertising is to look for green building certification programs like LEED for Homes and the NAHB’s Green Building Initiative. Programs like these have rigorous standards and third-party evaluation systems that ensure developers truly are building responsibly.

Last I heard, EcoUrban was registered with LEED and going for Gold or Platinum certification.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 10 May 2007 18:01:30 +0000

Future green building must take account of the “green washing” that seems to be accelerating throughout the real estate market place. I’ve seen repeated use of words like “green”

and “stewardship” across the board. I’ve seen some Realtors using the word “green” in their ads, knowing that awareness is elevating by the media and they use that hype to drive

more traffic to their listings. I’ve ran across great sites such as http://www.ListedGreen.com ( Listed Green ) that screen developers and realtors so as to minimize the “green washing” effect.

Some blogs have been overused in this regard as well. Hopefully, the general public can sift through this green hype and really see the changes that builders and developers have

to do to reduce our carbon footprint.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:03:54 +0000

Speaking of Rocio Romero, my husband and I just visited Perryville last weekend and toured her home. I wanted to see if it would doable in an urban environment but decided the orientation of the building doesn’t work with the narrow city lots. However, my husband is now on a mission to find the perfect piece of land to build it on somewhere in southern Missouri.

By: Curtis Miller

Curtis Miller — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:06:27 +0000

This is really cool and good to see for our city. While I love older homes and restoring them, it’s partly because I hate to waste a perfectly good home just to tear down and rebuild “suburban” style junk. It’s nice to see some diversity in the housing stock. Not everyone is drawn to a 100 year old brick house. And heck, I’ve always wanted to build a Rocio Romero vacation home down at the lake someday!