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Loan star
Making energy efficiency possible for cheapskate homeowners |
Clark Williams-Derry |
20 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Apropos of my recent realization that if I had bought a new furnace on credit rather than waiting to save up the cash I'd have saved a bundle of money over the last 5 years, here's something I've been meaning to write about for months: a Vancouver developer that came up with a smart -- I mean, diabolically smart -- financing scheme to build a super-efficient condo complex. (Proving, I suppose, biodiversivist's point that spreadsheets are, in fact, wonderful thi ... |
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| Topics: energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green building, green living, placemaking, Vancouver (all these topics) |
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