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What image do you conjure when you hear the name Levittown? Do you think of America's first planned suburban community, the one with the $5,000 homes built for returning WWII veterans, or is what comes to mind rows and rows of near-identical houses? Levittown spawned an entire building industry in the 1940s and 1950s that resulted in the suburbia we know today.
New York State's Energy Star Labeled Homes program reached a big milestone last year by surpassing the 10,000 mark. Instituted in 2001, Energy Star is sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), in coordination with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
A stylish Upper West Side townhouse is a stylish model for sustainable design.
One of the most exciting things about participating in the "green" movement is discovering how much it has already seeped into the public's consciousness. For example, a family in New York City has converted a somewhat rundown 1885 brownstone into a fabulously green home on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
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