Sustainable Community

We have been working with Ecosphere Investments on a sustainably driven residential development. This development is featuring 10 homes that will all be built to meet or exceed built-green and/or energy star standards. To complement this, the site plan has been designed to foster community, reduce hard scape, and to be environmentally focused. We are incorporating things such as bio-swales, native plant materials, community, and very limited turf grass. Each home will be carefully sited to provide private outdoor living space in a tightly packed development. The developers are also exploring a community wide geothermal heating and cooling system, Photovoltaic power, and many other ideas. We created some graphics for them to use in the sustainable living fair where they are giving there first marketing exposure to the community. This is indeed, an exciting community that we believe will be the future of development.

Silver Lining

My daughter and I took a trip through Windsor last weekend to see how the progress was coming from the Tornado that wiped out the east side of town last May. I was pleased to see how much progress has been made in the last couple of months. It also occured to me, that even though this tragedy is awful for the homeowners and businesses that were damaged or destroyed, it is also providing much needed jobs for the construction industry right now. From carpenters, to drywallers, to painters to roofers, all are able to make some money and put food on there own tables in a time period that has not been kind to construction personal.

My hats off to Windsor for rising to the occasion and recovering from this storm!