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Article: Green building on green acres: resort development promotes green building practices through five-star Home at Suncadia.
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- Environmental Design & Construction
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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Back in the nineties, in the popular television series Northern Exposure, a moose casually ambled down the main street of a tiny town supposedly in Alaska. In the real, small town of Roslyn in rural Washington where it was filmed, residents still remember that snow had to be trucked in from the nearby mountains to have the set look authentic. Today in this hamlet on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains, where the Cle Elum River winds its way through forests of pine and fir, what promises to bring renewed notoriety to this natural haven is a sustainable resort development.
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Suncadia, a new community with a green ethic, is ...