Posted May 22, 2008 9:20 AM by Mark Piepkorn
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Peter Yost gave a presentation at the NAHB National Green Building Conference in New Orleans last week. Nation's Building News ("The Official Online Weekly Newspaper of NAHB") has a nice piece on it. Excerpted:

In 1999, people didn't talk about carbon-neutral or zero-energy homes, and the American public was largely unconcerned about global warming. There were only 7,000 Energy Star-certified homes. Now, Yost said, there are more than 800,000.

As green building moves into the mainstream, Yost forecasted even bigger changes ahead:

Read the article.

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