If you’re interested in the Green Movement, a hot topic in and around Bay Area real estate circles, I think you’ll find this video (~6 minutes) fascinating. I really like the economic approach behind the planning; there are all kinds of cost/benefit evaluations. From this angle, costs are viewed, at least in part, in terms of energy and resource consumption; the basis for “Green” thinking and planning.
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