Wow, isn't this home striking?  It's a green house and a house meant to act like a true greenhouse -- the steel-framed structure is enveloped in alternating layers of insulated transparent glass and translucent polycarbonate plates, so when the sun comes through the glass and heats up the interior,...

Home Business Expert: Direct Sales & Personal Development Industry Direct sales, viewed through the angle of personal development industry provide a much larger canvas for a home business entrepreneur. It offers tremendous potential for the work from home entrepreneur who is looking for a hands...

Oberlin College Professor Anne Trubek did not find what she expected when exploring East 73rd Street in Cleveland. Through the efforts of organized residents, some areas hard-hit by the foreclosure crisis remain viable neighborhoods....

It's Friday, so why not take some time to enjoy a unique, green renovation.  This home used to be an old, stucco box, but you'd hardly know it just by looking.  Mr. Jeremy Levine gutted the whole place and gave the home a new lease on life.  The interior of this North Eagle Rock renovation drowns...

The Galleries at Turney, although completed back in mid-2007, have been getting some good press over the last year for good reason.  First, they're ultra modern, super slick, and hard to miss.  Second, the eight homes were the first to receive LEED-H certification in the entire state of Arizona. ...

When New York’s real estate market was at its peak, condo buyers and investors were not in the position to quibble if the ceiling of their new apartment was a few inches shorter than the one in the sponsor’s offering plan or if common charges were a couple hundred dollars more than expected. Now...

When Jongmin Park and his wife Soye moved from Battery Park City to a condo at 90 William Street three years ago, the conversion of the Financial District into a 24-hour retail and residential neighborhood was just beginning. When they first arrived, all the restaurants and stores closed on the week...

The Right Start was about the "possibilities", collective action to move the profession ahead as opposed to going backwards or standing still. That led to The URARS, ways to convey the message, enlist the support of appraisers and get the process started. While I anticipated debate, I also expected ...

It is hard to know when the proverbial “next shoe” will drop in the current economic crisis but recently credit lenders in my practice have experienced attempted policy rescissions for their mortgage insured accounts where suddenly and without any notice the private mortgage insurer ...

So Chelsea Green was kind enough to pass along a copy of Stephen and Rebekah Hren's new book officially titled The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit.  As always, I've handled the book with care and will give it away to one lucky, random commenter below....