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U.S. Green Building Council Platinum-Certifed Home Will Be On Display in Bellemont AZ on Tuesday

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) certifies buildings based on a stringent rating system that recognizes design and construction processes that minimize negative impact on the environment. Platinum is the highest rating and gold is also better than nothing, as far as our world is concerned. Many of us living in <city w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Flagstaff</place /></city /> pay special attention to new “green” developments. One of our green local businesses will present the first Platinum home to our community on Tuesday, August 21.  The home is built by <a href="http://aeapower.com/">Architectural & Environmental Associates, Inc. (AEA),</a> which also provides wind and solar power solutions in the <city w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Flagstaff</place /></city /> area. Architect Carl Ramsey is one of the principals of AEA, and, incidentally, is working with one of my clients to build a home in <city w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Flagstaff</place /></city /> that I expect will be a spectacular example of what a green home can be.  Meanwhile, the first USGBC-certified Platinum Home in the area will be on display near <city w:st="on" />Bellemont</city />, <state w:st="on" />Arizona</state /> (just west of <city w:st="on" />Flagstaff</city />) on Tuesday as part of the meeting of the <a title="Chapter Steering Committee Members" href="http://chapters.usgbc.org/arizona/Branches-NorthernArizona.html" target="_blank">Northern Arizona branch of the Arizona Chapter of USGBC</a>.  I believe registration for the event closed last Thursday, but if you are interested in attending the chapter meeting or the tour of the home, call the number on this <a href="http://chapters.usgbc.org/arizona/documents/ChapterMeeting082107.pdf">meeting registration form</a> and check it out. If you can’t attend, check back at this blog later in the week for a report on how it all went. I’ll be there.<img height="143" alt="EcoBroker International Logo" hspace="0" src="docs/EB-Certified-logo-for-web.gif" width="171" align="right" border="0" /><hr /> 9 application/xml false EcoBroker Flagstaff communities Flagstaff green homes Flagstaff green real estate issues Flagstaff homes Living in Flagstaff U.S. Green Building Council Website of the U.S. Green Building Council, a community working to transform building practices http://www.usgbc.org/ Arizona Chapter of USGBC Arizona's very active chapter of USGBC http://chapters.usgbc.org/arizona/ Website of EcoBroker International - Educational Resource for Real Estate Environmental Issues Ann Heitland is the first, and so far only, EcoBroker in Flagstaff, AZ http://www.ecobroker.com Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aheitland false true false false true 178975 false false true false false false true 178435 blog blogsite/BestFlagstaffHomes/web