[Hoffer Rand]

It means you’re going to pay a heckuva lot more greenbacks for whatever it is they’re doing.

[boop]

"But with 4,750 square feet, a four-car garage and a location in a rural area where subdivisions aren't supposed to sprawl, was it really green?"

I like how the "reporter" decides where subdivisions are "allowed" to "sprawl".

[sionnsar]

It means you’re going to pay a heckuva lot more greenbacks for whatever it is they’re doing.

The picture is substantially more complex than that. Any time you have to deal with buying "offsets" (carbon or otherwise) I quite agree. If you are having to consider "carbon" in elements of your building design, you might be in questionable territory.

But some of the requirements and/or credit-items in the energy-efficient building standards really do pay off, and some in relatively short amounts of time.

The troublesome elements are the political fiats coming down now -- a bit less so the "rating" system we in the U.S. will start seeing imposed in a year or two (written into local codes), following the model of the EU Energy Performance(?) Directive adopted just a few years ago.