{"id":338,"date":"2011-06-01T08:10:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T08:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenvehiclenetwork.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2011-06-01T08:10:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T08:10:25","slug":"green-building-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/green-building-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Building in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the U.S. housing market remains in flux because of high employment  and record foreclosures, KB Home, one of America&#8217;s premier home  builders, has found success in building and marketing homes and  properties that are  green and environmentally-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>On May 17, KB Home unveiled the Primera Terra, the largest Leed  Platinum-certified residential community in California. Leed, which  stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is an  internationally recognized green building certification system developed  by the U.S. Green Building Council.  Leed-certified homes typically use  20 to 30 percent less energy than  other new or resale homes, but some  homes using up to 60 percent less energy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/JustOneThing\/energy-efficient-homes-sell-sluggish-housing-market\/story?id=13684160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the entire article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the U.S. housing market remains in flux because of high employment and record foreclosures, KB Home, one of America&#8217;s premier home builders, has found success in building and marketing homes and properties that are green and environmentally-friendly. On May 17, KB Home unveiled the Primera Terra, the largest Leed Platinum-certified residential community in California. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_citadela_custom_class":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[517,510],"tags":[],"citadela-post-location":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-green-future","category-green-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-post-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-post-location?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}