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at 1900sf, this is certainly a more "green" home from an ideological standpoint than the 4600sf margarido house... although i'm waiting for a industry nomenclature shift in terminology distinguishing "green: using materials that are green" from "green: a building enabling a sustainably-focused way of life"... lately LEEDs seems to be on the side of the former.

otherwise, this house boasts "italian tile"... italian style or literally from italy? are there no decent tile manufacturers on the west coast? tile is a pretty heavy item to ship 1/2 way around the world, methinks...

Just a note: it's LEED not LEEDs.
LEED stands for Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design. No offense, it's just a pet peeve of mine. :)

You can still say LEEDs if you use it as a noun as in Designs, which I believe is what redneckmodern meant. ;)

Any reason you didn't mention the $770,000 price specifically so we didn't have to traipse around other links to find it out? I find it particularly frustrating when AT posts reference cost but then don't offer the specifics.

no offense taken, but i'd think you'd criticize the use of all lower-case and incomplete sentences first... in a low-stakes writing environment such as this forum (as opposed to the actual editorial content on the site), i'd prize concept/content over grammar. "s" or no "s", you get the point, no?

I agree with RedneckModern (and love the name) that sustainability is more than just having the money to buy green products. One of the three Rs is Reduce (along with Reuse and Recycle) the amount of stuff you use.