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Another Reason Modern Green Prefab Is Tough: Construction Financing

Installing prefab in Sweden. Photo credit: Haninge I was intrigued by a recent post from prefabber Blu Homes about construction financing. They wrote: “The homeowner must procure construction financing – a short term, interest only loan that will give the homeowner the funds to pay Blu and the site contractor the costs of construction. ” Really? I didn’t know you could get construction financing for prefab. In fact, this was one of the biggest problems… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Another Reason Modern Green Prefab Is Tough: Construction Financing

Extinct Toads to Return Home

Image credit: Tim Herman/ IUCN The Kinhansi spray toad was first discovered in 1996 when it’s tiny five-acre habitat in Tanzania was surveyed for inclusion in massive hydro-electric dam project. Though the dam was built upstream, it reduced Kinhansi falls to 10 percent of its original flow, drying the mist zone that made up the toads’ home. By 2009, the IUCN declared the toad extinct in the wild. Now, a population of captive-bred spray toads are… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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