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	<title>Eco-Compass &#187; WalkerWells</title>
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	<description>Solutions that inspire change.</description>
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		<title>Walker Wells: Urban areas as opportunity for innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[green: environmentally sound or beneficial
urbanism: the practice of creating human communities
Green Urbanism: the practice of creating communities beneficial to humans and the environment
After 7 weeks of talking about the building. I&#8217;d like to take this final blog opportunity to zoom out and talk about the city. Urban areas, because they are centers of intense resource [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walker Wells: Solar, the benefits are big but the funding is not</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WalkerWells</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
In the green world, the &#8220;benefits of solar&#8221; is bandied about as dogma. But exactly what kind of benefits are we talking about? Economic? Environmental? Social? All of the above?
As part of preparing to moderate the Affordable Housing panel at the recent Solar Power International conference, we tried to answer this question by running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walker Wells: Nuts and Bolts of Green Building</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/206/walker-wells-nuts-and-bolts-of-green-building</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WalkerWells</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fall is housing conference season, at least on the west coast.  Having presented at the three main regional conferences - Non-Profit Housing of Northern California (NPH), Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing (SCANPH), and San Diego Housing Federation (SDHF) - off and on for the past five years, it is interesting to see how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walker Wells: Green Products and ROI</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WalkerWells</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Financing isn&#8217;t the first thing that comes to mind when you here the term green building.  Instead it&#8217;s usually solar panels, bamboo flooring, or a piece of plumbing equipment you&#8217;re not sure you really want to understand.  But just like other building materials, green products cost money.  What makes them different is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walker Wells: Building the Green Community Around the Green Building</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/190/walker-wells-building-the-green-community-around-the-green-building</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WalkerWells</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you&#8217;re approaching green as part of your mission, you&#8217;re using the integrated design process, and you&#8217;ve tweaked the financing structure to cover the added costs.  Voila! A solid green project, right? No quite.  There&#8217;s one more, often ignored, element needed to guarantee the long-term success of a green affordable housing project.
Resident and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walker Wells: Integration and Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WalkerWells</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By now it&#8217;s clear that building green is much more than adding a green roof, using solar panels, or identifying which materials will replace the standard ones. Creating a successful green project starts much earlier with the right mindset. Building green requires optimism and a willingness to innovate and create synergy. With this mindset, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walker Wells: The Mission is Green</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/172/walker-wells-the-mission-is-green</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 

This version is my creation but it sounds a lot like the mission statement of most affordable housing developers in the United States.  The absence of environmental issues in such statements demonstrates that green, at least until recently, was not part of the lingua franca of the housing community.
Historically, creating &#8220;safe, decent, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walker Wells: Benefits of Green Affordable Housing</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/163/walker-wells-benefits-of-green-affordable-housing</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Esoteric, expensive, unrealistic, inspired, essential.  A decade ago, these were common reactions to combining green building and affordable housing.  Today the reaction is quite different - expressed by the now frequently repeated aphorism: we can&#8217;t afford to not build green. Green affordable housing has moved from a curiosity to a trend and is now [...]]]></description>
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