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solar: Solar Concentrating Power Plant To Be Built in Santa Teresa, New Mexico - 06/11/09 05:37 PM
According to the New Mexico Business Weekly, El Paso Electric has signed an agreement to buy all the electricity from a concentrating solar power plant to be built in southern New Mexico by NRG Energy Inc.
The plant, to be built on a 450-acre site in Sunland Park, about 10 miles from El Paso, will produce 92 megawatts of electricity. It will be   the first commercial-scale solar thermal project in New Mexico. It is hoped that the construction of the power plant will be completed by the summer of 2011.
Concentrating solar power plants use mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight … (2 comments)

solar: Giving Green This Holiday Season - 09/28/08 09:18 PM
No, I am not talking about giving away moeny, although that always seems to be a popular and much appreciated gift. I'll take some too if you have any extra!
My friends and family will tell you that I am not a person who likes or ejoys the holiday season. Then why am I writing this? Because I went into my favorite arts and crafts supply store last week and they already had half the store stocked with Christmas decorations and all the various stuff that comes out only between Thanksgiving and Christmas although in this case, I did not even … (7 comments)

solar: Greenwashing - 10/23/06 08:14 PM
 Just went to see a few houses on the Parade of Homes this weekend. There were some beautiful, well designed, well built houses and some that were not so great. The thing I found distrubing was how many builders and developers were touting themselves as being green because they had used one green feature in a particular home and ignored green principles overall. Adding skylights and window walls may add natural daylighting to a space, but if it does not take into a ccount the orientation of the house, it is definitely not green. The LAST thing you want in a … (3 comments)

 
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My blog is as much about a philosophy of life and living as it is about real estate as a business. E.F. Shumacher subtitled his book SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL "Economics as if People Mattered" In the real estate industry we realize that people matter and that where they live matters. We now also have a larger responsiblity, I believe, to get them to consider HOW they live. Everyone in the developed world using less energy and resources makes it possible for those who have access to neither to experience a better life and to make the difference between their being able to having a roof overhead or not or for their children to eat or not. 



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