From Time.Com: Greening This Old House; Saving Money And The Environment By Upgrading Older Homes

Greening This Old House
By Bryan Walsh - Time Magazine

Photo By - Viktor Koen - For Time
Thursday, Apr. 23, 2009

Would Abraham Lincoln have gone green? Frank Milligan thinks so. Milligan is the director of President Lincoln's Cottage, a Gothic Revival mansion on a breezy hill a few miles from the White House, where Lincoln and his family sought relief from the summer heat during the Civil War.

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Conservationists Find Eager Sellers In New Real Estate Market

By Matthew Preusch - The Oregonian
Saturday May 02, 2009, 4:32 PM


The housing downturn made it possible for the trust to buy 27 acres on the butte from a housing developer last year, preserving it from development.
If while hiking through Portland's new woods at Clatsop Butte Park you pause among the cedars with their brightly budding conelets, thank the recession for this moment of Zen.


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