Northern Virginia Green Real EstateA blog by Nate Shaw, Northern Virginia's Green Real Estate Agent. Information on how to fight global warming, live a more green lifestyle, green homes and remodeling, recycling, and the local Washington DC area, and national, real estate market and economy.Fannie and Freddie are Bailed Out- September 15, 2008 Those of you whom I have talked with in the last couple of months know that I predicted that the government would take over Fannie and Freddie sometime soon. Well, it happened last night. Just like all of the recent bank failures, the news was released on a Friday night, so that no one would notice (the failure of Silver State Bank was announced as well). In fact, because of Tropical Storm Hannahttp://www.novagreenagent.com/blog/2008/09/fannie-and-freddie-are-bailed-out.html More Green Products- September 15, 2008 I went to Lowes and Target over the weekend to pick up a couple of things for some repairs around the house and I found some great new green products. The first discovery was a paint roller made from recycled materials. It was great to see this as paint rollers are pretty much a one-time use product and many of them end up in landfills (to learn how to properly clean paint rollers so that youhttp://www.novagreenagent.com/blog/2008/09/more-green-products.html Virtual Swap Meets- September 4, 2008 I read a lot. Magazines, web sites, newspapers and books. For my books, I make liberal use of the wonderful Prince William County libraries. I highly suggest that you make good use of your county or city libraries as well, as they are a wonderful resource of information. Plus, when people borrow books instead of buying them, we reduce the amount of trees consumed for paper, which keeps them inhttp://www.novagreenagent.com/blog/2008/09/virtual-swap-meets.html |