Sentences with phrase «sustainable housing»

The Executive Director outlines how to tackle climate change issues within a broader framework of sustainable housing and urban development.

The contest's website offers a wide range of tips and resources about sustainable housing, useful to both the public and industry insiders.

And creating a compelling case for making sustainable housing choices a priority.

The unpaid fines are sent to collections and are held against the individual's credit rating, creating a barrier to accessing sustainable housing.

(See related blog post: «Laying the Foundation for Sustainable Housing in D.C.»)

The City of Buffalo, with more than 23,000 vacant housing units, was the starting point for the Sustainable Neighborhoods project, and People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH) Buffalo was the first recipient.

Realtors ® applaud Senate hearings about the future of the secondary mortgage market and the essential elements of sustainable housing finance reform.

In this regard, the measures implemented in recent months by federal authorities are expected to contribute to a more sustainable housing market in Canada.

Image credit: Southern Railway London Suburb Announces One Planet Living Plan It's not just their involvement in everything from localized closed - loop paper recycling to decentralized supply chains to massive sustainable housing developments across the world that makes the UK - based Bioregional Development Group special.

Each year, Japan's LIXIL JS Foundation holds a university design competition focused on sustainable housing technologies.

The company is seeking to pioneer new financing models in rapidly urbanizing areas in Latin America and other developing countries that create sustainable housing at the lowest cost of acquisition and total ownership, through resilient and energy - efficient design and materials use

Another addition to the highly successful 21st Century series The latest in sustainable housing design trends from around the world, providing inspiration and practical ideas Features lush color photographs of visually spectacular and environmentally - friendly architecture Showcases detailed plans and descriptions of each house and its sustainable elements.

«The public wants more sustainable housing choices today.»

The State of New York, thanks to Governor Cuomo, has once again stepped up as a partner to make more affordable, environmentally sustainable housing available in The Bronx — and we welcome it.»

The project combines contemporary art interventions and agricultural traditional values; the six - hectare land [5] is intended to be cultivated as an open space or community free from ownership, and residents and artists are welcomed to use a plot of land as a laboratory for development «cultivating rice, building sustainable houses, or channeling solar power.

Reducing legal barriers to tiny houses could quickly provide accessible and sustainable housing options for thousands of people throughout Oregon.

A previously disused site in the London Borough of Ealing has been transformed into sustainable housing for 132 people.

Recommendation 5: That the Torres Strait region is considered as a potential case study for small scale trials of solutions to coastal erosion and inundation problems, as well as sustainable housing and building design and construction for remote communities in tropical environments.

«The Mountain» explores new ways of integrating sustainable housing with car culture.

All this week the show features the construction of Kevin McCloud's own sustainable house by a team of workmen, with a different aspect of the construction being shown every night.

Image credit: Southern Railway London Suburb Announces One Planet Living Plan It's not just their involvement in everything from localized closed - loop paper recycling to decentralized supply chains to massive sustainable housing developments across

The Archetype Sustainable House consists of two semi-detached units, with one unit showcasing environmentally sensitive methods of building, and the other featuring the future of «building green».

Rising energy prices, consumers feeling pinched at the gas pump, and an aging, inefficient housing stock all create a compelling case for making sustainable housing choices a priority.

Nic is a member of over 20 all - party parliamentary groups (APPG), including Sustainable Housing, Financial Education for Young People and Conservation and Wildlife.

With 700,000 troops given Permanent Change of Station orders annually, it is of great importance that these men and women know what options exist and how they can help them find and afford sustainable housing.

We have seen one or two examples of affordable sustainable housing, for example this apartment block in London or this $ 200,000 Oklahoma zero energy house, but overall environmentally sustainable architecture is still seen as somewhat of an elitist

Tammy will also launch a fundraising campaign to support a community Cob building in Romania in 2016 «to not only provide a healthy sustainable house for a local family but also to teach the international community how to build their own healthy homes from the ground right under their feet.»

The Wall Street Journal asked four architects to: design an energy - efficient, environmentally sustainable house without regard to cost, technology, aesthetics or the way we are used to living.

Ecology Building Society focuses its lending on projects that offer the greatest gains in terms of carbon reductions and environmental impact, with its ethical lending policy prioritising sustainable housing practices, sustainable lifestyles, sustainable economic activity, and other ecologically positive projects and ventures.

Team Middlebury is one of the twenty teams chosen to compete in this year's US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition and their entry is the design and building of a socially and environmentally sustainable house called the InSite house.

She wants other Australians to understand Passivhaus and sustainable housing faster.

[Translate] by Charley Cameron, INHABITAT Make it Right, the non-profit founded by Brad Pitt to provide sustainable housing in New...

Gizmag highlights ten remarkably innovative sustainable houses.

Perhaps a better approach is the one demonstrated by Knafo Klimor in their competition entry for the Living Steel 2nd International Sustainable Housing Competition.

It is interesting that an architect, who is usually better known for building high end luxury villas in Sweden, should get involved in the mainstream sustainable housing market.

the Chael - Dover Cottage - What the Original Green Looks Like paints a picture of a highly sustainable house using the Original Green standard.

We've created an educational program in partnership with radio talk - show host Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University to teach families about sustainable housing goals.

Via Capitale recently published a report titled Vers une habitation durable (Towards Sustainable Housing).

During the next month, the public in Toronto has the opportunity to vote on their favourite sustainable house design at The People's Choice Awards.

«Consumers must have access to a responsible and sustainable housing credit market, so as we strengthen lending regulations to avoid past excesses, we must be careful not to create an environment where mortgage loans are subject to unnecessarily heightened litigation risks,» he said.

The Administration Took Immediate Action to Stabilize and Heal Our Housing Market: Within a month of taking office, the President launched a series of housing initiatives to help millions of homeowners stay in their homes or transition into sustainable housing opportunities.

«I favour local products which help support our economy and create jobs,» says Ken Ruest, Senior Researcher with Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation's (CMHC) Sustainable Housing Group.

Tax Reform, Equifax Data Breach and Sustainable Housing Finance Update.

«The bill suffers from its own crippling poverty of ambition, and contains too little on affordable housing, too little on social housing and too little on sustainable housing.»

As pioneer of the Tiny House Movement, he has introduced us to a truly sustainable housing option.