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work at home: Where do you really live? - 04/15/09 09:46 PM
Where you live is a good place to start looking at sustainability in our lives, in more ways than one. The closer you live to where you work the less distance you have to commute. One of the reasons New York City is actually a pretty green city is that so many people live in small apartments and walk or use public transit to get around. Many people in large metropolitan areas with good transit systems do not own automobiles. If they need to go somewhere they want to drive to, they rent a car. Many of the people reading this
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work at home: NEW TREND OR RETURN CUSTOM? - 01/07/09 11:36 PM
In "the good old days" many people had a very short commute to work. They lived above or behind the commercial endeavor they ran. Apartments above grocery stores, eateries and bars were not uncommon for much of urban history. Before Agribusiness there was the family farm.People lived on the land they worked, even or maybe especially, if they were sharecroppers. As people look for ways to reduce time spent commuting live/work spaces are making a comeback. Some of this is fueled by younger workers who want to be near the entertainment offered downtown-music, theater, eateries of all varieties. Many of them
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Deb Hurt, ABR, e-Pro,Green, TRC
Albuquerque,
NM
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Address: 6700 Jefferson NE , Suite C-2, Albuquerque, NM, 87109
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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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