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      <title>Green Life Smart Life Home Names Tech Partners</title>
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      <description>Control4, NuVo, Lutron, Leviton, Black &amp; Decker, H-P Products, OmniMount and Niveus provide green products for the showcase home.</description>
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      <title>NAHB Shuts Down for 1 Week to Save Money</title>
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      <title>Al Gore to Keynote USGBC’s Greenbuild Conference</title>
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      <description>Expo in Phoenix targets homebuilders and integrators seeking green products.</description>
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      <title>Are You Ready for ‘Intelligent’ Kitchen Cabinets?</title>
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      <description>Motion sensor-based cabinets rise vertically to disappear. Cabinets can be tied into a whole-house automation system.</description>
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      <title>CEDIA Offers 10 Courses for Design and Build Professionals</title>
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      <title>5 Tips for Scoring With Developers</title>
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      <description>A partnership with a developer can pay huge dividends. Here's five tips on how to engage a large-scale housing opportunity.</description>
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      <title>Connexion Technologies Partners With 2 Florida Communities</title>
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      <title>Housing Starts Increase 3.6% to Hit 7-Month High</title>
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      <title>Appraisals Are Faulty, NAHB Study Confirms</title>
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      <description>Association says homebuilding industry is being hurt because of below-value appraisals.</description>
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      <title>Virtual Reality Marketing: Is it Real or Fake?</title>
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      <description>Can you figure out which 2% of this virtual reality promo video for a master planned community in Saudi Arabia is real?</description>
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      <title>Single-Family Housing Starts Down Only 1% in May</title>
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      <description>Is the bottom finally here? Northeast and Midwest see double-digit increases over April. Unsold inventories continue to shrink.</description>
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      <dc:date>2009-06-25T11:31:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>2009 Innovative Housing Technology Awards Revealed</title>
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      <description>The IHTAs honor the most innovative products, builders and CE pros serving the homebuilding industry.</description>
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      <dc:date>2009-06-01T12:01:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Home Prices Continue to Fall, But Confidence is Up</title>
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      <dc:date>2009-05-26T17:01:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Is Going Green Really Worth It?</title>
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      <description>Cleantech Homes says eco-friendly home technology can be scalable, enabling dealers to capture a broader market. Small green systems can go a long way -- for both installer and client.</description>
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      <dc:date>2009-05-22T12:06:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Cleantech’s Green Technology On Display</title>
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      <description>The folks at Cleantech say that once their show home is finished, it will be part museum, part warehouse, part classroom and part conference room.</description>
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      <dc:date>2009-05-22T12:05:00+00:00</dc:date>
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