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Listed Green® Homes
- the Green MLS (Multiple Listing Service) exclusively for Green, Energy Efficient, Sustainable Homes and Housing Developments For Sale Worldwide.
The way we currently build and maintain our homes is one of the contributing factors to global warming.
Listed Green Homes is committed to being part of the solution to reduce global warming by promoting sustainable, energy efficient, healthy building design - in addition to helping elevate the market value of new green homes and eco-friendly residential developments.
"Spread the word - watch us grow"
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Green Listings
The Village on Sewanee Creek, an eco-friendly and sustainable community located on the bluff of the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee - with restrictive convenants helping maintain a balance of community and nature.
Green project features include:
- Green homes building incentives offered
- Alternative energy and rainwater collection
- Nature Preserve with hiking trails and breathtaking waterfalls
Click on the image to view this sustainable green development listing.
The first and largest group of green residences in South Carolina to pursue LEED for Homes Silver certification. Each Mixson home will also achieve the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star accreditation.
Some green features include:
- Efficient heating and cooling equipment
- Indoor paints that are low-VOC content
- Tankless water heaters
- Water Conservation and so much more....
Click on the image to view this progressive green housing development listing.
Kit Carson Village is a LEED for Homes Silver certified, age-restricted, master planned, gated community located 30 miles south of Carson City Nevada.
The Village offers state-of-the-art, eco-friendly Energy Star rated green built homes in a secure community.
Green development features include:
- Solar Photovoltaic Power available
- Thermal Solar Water Heating
- Sustainable Materials and more
Click on the image to view this awesome green project listing.
From a choice building site, this Utah green home was once a run down rambler originally built back in 1955.
Making a flawless transition from mid-century home to 21st century energy efficient contemporary green home. Stunning views too.
Green home features include:
- Solar Panel Heat Source for Air and Water
- Eucalyptus flooring is FSC certified
- Zero VOC paints & finishes plus so much more
Click on the image to view this awesome green home listing.
A renovated green home that fights those skyrocketing energy prices. This 3 bedroom solar powered home in Middle Island New York is
surrounded by lush trees, pond and waterfall - giving it a park-like setting on a huge lot of just over a half acre.
Green home features include:
- 3060 watt Solar PV Electric System
- All Energy Star Appliances
- Solar powered attic fan plus so much more
Click on the image to view this green home listing.
Should You List Green?
Sellers of all types - can list green, energy efficient, sustainable homes or housing developments for sale on this site.
- Ranked #1 on Google and Yahoo! as a Green MLS
- Averaging over 20,000 visitors per month
- Listings are personally reviewed to ascertain that they are actually green, energy efficient and/or sustainable
- Maximum exposure of green, healthy, energy efficient homes or housing developments - to a like-minded buying audience on an internet platform dedicated exclusively to energy efficient homes for sale worldwide
- Real Estate and EcoBroker® Certified professionals can post direct links to their personal business website promoting their green home inventory for sale
- Green Builders and Developers can advertise current and/or "up-and-coming" green, energy efficient, sustainable "green built" housing projects
- Homeowners can list green homes for a very low monthly fee
- Buyers never have to register to view listings or contact sellers of green homes and eco-friendly housing developments
- No contracts required - cancel anytime
Important -
Please Read
Listed Green® has one goal in mind -
being the best Green MLS (multiple listing service) to showcase new green homes for sale from seller's of all types - builders, developers, realtors and eco-friendly homeowners.
In order to be the best and the greenest, Listed Green has chosen to review each listing before it is listed.
This extra effort eliminates "greenwashing" - a term used when someone utilizes "green" verbiage (i.e. "solar", "eco-friendly", "conservation", etc.) to drive extra attention to traditionally built homes or housing development.
Listed Green promotes numerous National Green Building Certification Programs and Certified Green Home Builders that are truly making a difference in the green, energy efficient housing marketplace. Additionally, Listed Green helps educate the home buyer - who may have little or no idea what "green" living means and what effect it can really have in their overall "carbon footprint" on the environment.
Listed Green Homes has also considered the reality that people with a lot of money tend to build bigger homes.
With that fact in mind, Listed Green has decided to review these larger homes with a tougher requirement; that they have an "extensive" list of green components worth considering. Maybe solar power, solar thermal hot water, water saving devices throughout, recycled materials and hopefully
LEED for Homes certified or some local green building certification program involved. It's a "case by case" review of green homes and the information submitted.
Listed Green promotes innovative and progressive energy saving ideas in green homes or eco-friendly housing development from anywhere in the world, in a very professional, easy-to-navigate internet platform, using a new Green MLS listing format which emphasizes green technologies and sustainable building techniques both new and old.
Listed Green has also made an environmentally responsible choice not to crowd this website with advertising.
We chose to focus on education and alliance with like-minded organizations. As a true Green MLS to list new green homes and/or developments for sale/rent, we will always have a core responsibility to focus on making a difference on how we live, what we live in, what we choose to build our living environments with and what impact these products truly have on our planet.
List your green, innovative, energy efficient, sustainable homes and developments with the best, truly green, internet MLS platform available worldwide - Listed Green.
This Green MLS website is proud to be number one in Google and Yahoo.
What Helps Make a Home
Green?
Listed below are just a few examples:
- Alternative power systems such as solar and wind
- Unique energy efficient building methods
- Hot water heating devices such as solar and solar thermal
- Water recycling methods
- Building insulation from recycled content
- Paints and stains that are no-voc
- Green Building Certifications - such as individual state run programs and the national LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System™
Transform
Green Homes
Listed Green has a brand-new alternative website that we are developing which showcases:
- Energy Efficient Ideas and Products for Homes
- Progressive and Innovative Green Builders
- Green REALTORS® and EcoBrokers®
- Unique Architects for Sustainable Building Design
Please visit www.TransFormGreenHomes.com
Listed Green®
GetAways
A new website featuring green, eco-friendly resorts and spas worldwide. This site is brand new and growing.
Be sure and check out www.ListedGreenGetAways.com
A Bigger
Housing Impact
Seems that some Americans still love to build it big.
This may never change. ListedGreen would like to convince everyone, especially the large luxury homes segment, to at least go for LEED certification. You know they will build it big anyway, so why not show them (and everyone else), that homes can indeed be "greener", not just by design, but also by function.
A long list of components can definitely make a difference on how these larger homes' energy costs could be as much as 80 to 90 percent below average like-sized typically built homes. The folks who make the biggest impact, are the ones who decide to go truly eco-friendly.
But there's a lot of argument out there - how huge homes could even be considered green? Obviously, there's quite a bit more resources going toward building such a large, stately estate. Overall, a bigger impact on the environment - or does it really have to be an impact?
One first smart step, would be to utilize recycled building materials throughout. There's a multitude of eco-friendly products available, and since the luxury client shouldn't mind the larger budget for building bigger homes; why not take a giant "green" leap in the right direction? Say they've already decided to build huge homes, but chose to use reclaimed construction materials instead. Then just take it to the next level and go solar.
Not just solar for electric power consumption, but for generating domestic hot water and radiant home heating. Thermal Solar Tubes have definately come a long way since their inception well over a decade ago. Widely used in the UK, Asia and Australia, these UV absorbing glass tubes have substantially dropped in price, making them a wise economic and environmental choice for heating water in the United States.
And what about water?
Reclaiming water should (in our opinion) be mandatory in all new building codes, locally and nationally. Recycling grey water is not only easy to accomplish, but much more cost-effective than the monies spent to treat and deliver water to homes everywhere, large or small. The energy it takes to deliver water is a lot more than the average American realizes. We just take it for granted when we turn on the faucet, tub, shower or even flush the toliet, that water will be there, without giving much thought of the sizeable amount of energy dollars (and resources) that is spent to accomplish such a process.
That's just a start. Many green options can be incorporated while building new green homes and ListedGreen will continue to elevate these "greener" building choices. Since we can't ignore the fact that people will still build it big, and we can't force them to build smaller (at least for now), so maybe we can at least educate the luxury home builders to do it better.
Building a
Green Home with Concrete
For quite some time now, a number of "green" homes have been built using ICF's (Insulated Concrete Form) for the exterior wall construction
in many parts of the United States.
Seems like a simple idea - layout and stack hollow "foam blocks", drop in steel rebar for reinforcement and then pour concrete in
the core of these hollow blocks.
Then presto! - foam insulation (EPS) on both sides - with a layer of concrete in the middle!
When first thought, it seems that this method would be a very energy efficient way to construct exterior walls with concrete but it's actually a very
inefficient use of concrete's "THERMAL MASS" - which if used properly, can add enormous energy saving benefits for the interior living environment of green built homes.
The true benefits of Thermal Mass.
So what is this "thermal mass" you ask?
Simply put, just think of thick concrete as a "big battery" to store energy - hot or cold.
In winter, that concrete "mass" can absorb heat from indoor heating systems (and the sun), then releasing the "stored heat"
back into the living space later at night.
Now just reverse that same thought for hot, summer months. The exterior of the concrete absorbs heat from the sun during the day (isolating the cooler interior), then slowly re-radiates the heat back toward the exterior at night. Remember - heat energy moves from warm to cool.
This unique behavior of a thick layer of concrete is called "THERMAL MASS EFFECT".
The comfort is a more stable temperature of the living area. The savings is your off-peak demand for energy.
So you wonder - why on earth would a person want to "trap" this amazing energy saving benefit of "THERMAL MASS" by encasing it with foam insulation (which requires more building materials to cover it) on BOTH sides?
We wondered that too.
Some good news!!
There is a green company that has successfully developed, patented and manufactured a simple, proven "Building Insulation System" for concrete wall construction since 1980 -
way before "green" was a buzz word in the media.
Though mostly utilized in commercial building applications, this "Building Insulation System" has also been widely used in residential construction.
Well over 100 million sq.ft. of buildings worldwide have been "Integrally Insulated" - by placing a layer of very dense, rigid styrofoam insulation (extruded polystyrene)
"sandwiched" between two layers of concrete.
The result is you have an exposed thick layer of concrete (thermal mass) on the interior living space, able to take full advantage of the "THERMAL MASS EFFECT" and thus off-setting peak energy demands.
Just imagine. No mold issues. Tornado and hurricane resistant (concrete is the best and most durable material available). Sustainable - no need to rebuild after a hurricane or tornado (saving resources and lives). Very energy efficient by off-setting peak energy demands and concrete lasts a lifetime.
Sounds like a great way to build - we think so too. So who is this progressive company?
Read more here.
Compelling
Videos
Climate: A Crisis Averted
Among all the crap that you can watch on YouTube, this compelling short video is a unique perspective of what could be done, if we really wanted to.
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Sustainable
News
A truly "green" Real Estate Investment Trust(REIT) becomes closer to a reality - aimed toward the increased demand for a completely green investment portfolio.
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A recent study shows that Green homes are growing in public popularity and this will most likely continue as the real estate housing market cools.
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The island nation of Singapore will host the site of a brand-new 1.5 Gigawatt Solar manufacturing facility. ....Read More
Make plans for attending next years 7th Annual
GreenBuild International Conference and Expo in Boston on November 19th thru the 21st.
Exhibit Booths with hundreds of industry-leading organizations showcasing the latest green products, innovative technologies, and services that you don't want to miss. Read More....
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Stay current with the growing green real estate market and help your customers get the most when buying or selling energy efficient, environmentally friendly homes.
Thanks to Listed Green, you can take EcoBroker's energy and environmental training online by clicking ....Here
www.ListedGreen.com - The MLS to list Green Homes and Developments For Sale Worldwide is
Co-op America Business Network (CABN) approved.
Listed Green is among CABN's year 2007 progressive business leaders who are solving today's tough social and environmental problems.
Listed Green is very proud to be an active chapter member of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).
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