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Sagely 'green'

By JUDY STARK
Published June 5, 2004



	[Times photos: Doug Thompson]
	In WCI’s “Casa Verde” house at Venice Golf & River Club, green building goes stylish in the living room: rapidly renewable bamboo flooring, a cotton-and-rattan sofa, energy-efficient glass doors to the lanai.

	The pool uses natural salt for purification, eliminating the need for chlorine. A photovoltaic heater warms the water with solar energy.

What a difference a decade makes.

Ten years ago when it opened in Sarasota, the Florida House Learning Center was a novelty, a demonstration house built with energy-efficient materials and techniques. Just imagine, a deck made of recycled plastic bags and wood chips. Look at this, a European dishwasher that uses only 4 gallons of water instead of the usual 10 to 14. Hey, check this out: siding made of - what is this, manufactured wood?

Wanting not to waste

New Sarasota home-building company integrates would-be tear-down house into a green new residence.

By HAROLD BUBIL

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Having spent his first career in waste management, Steve Ellis wasn't about to trash a 1,000-square-foot house at 1876 Goldenrod St. Sure, other developers might have considered it a tear-down and sent it off to the landfill in metal boxes -- another 200 or so cubic yards of concrete, wood and plaster for the ever-growing pile that is yesterday's Sarasota.

Uniquely Green University Town Center Benderson Development Creates an Innovative Approach to Green Building

Sun Dec 24, 7:00 AM ET

Sarasota, FL (PRWeb) December 24, 2006 -- National Developer Benderson Development, in working with Moule & Polyzoides, urbanist architects and Two Trails, Inc., green consultants, is setting a new standard for Green Building with their unique approach for integrating stores, homes and offices. University Town Center will be the mixed-use development others will reference when looking to achieve working sustainable Lifestyle Center.

"Tech House" to be certified green

Tech House, now being built by Vision Homes in the new Trillium subdivision off Sarasota's Proctor Road, will become the first demonstration house to receive "green" certification from the Florida Green Building Coalition, said "green" construction consultant Drew Smith of Two Trails Inc. Vision Homes and the Home Builders Association of Sarasota County hired Smith to certify that the house is built to FGBC standards.

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Sagely 'green'

Wanting not to waste

Uniquely Green University Town Center Benderson Development Creates an Innovative Approach to Green Building

"Tech House" to be certified green

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