I'm Lani. I live in Austin, Texas (jealous?). I am the New Media Director of Single Pointe Realty (and AgentGenius.com). I keep this blog as my personal take on the market, the business of Real Estate, and the agents that make up the profession from all over the nation. Because I am not a licensed agent- I write commentary from the unique perspective of part consumer, part insider. Oh, and I have a ridiculous affinity for cheese.
We're a unique real estate company that doesn't operate as a traditional brokerage. We bring new technology, modern buying & selling strategies to our clients- it's been my job to create a home buying & selling experience that is fun, fresh, & exciting for today's Austin real estate consumer.
There are several ways that marketing is getting greener like this and this (how clever!).
For example, at Single Pointe, we use business card sizes over full page any chance we get and we limit printing altogether (although it can be a cheaper, easier solution over the more creative ways of going green).
How are YOU going green?
I've interviewed the elite in real estate- bubble gum style....
A better question is do you think people who say smooth as a baby’s butt have ever changed a diaper? I mean seriously, why do we spend so much time dreaming of being younger or going back in time, or relating to childhood when we really should embrace the “now”. Looking backwards is so “life in reverse.”[…]
READ MORE...Without giving too much away, it involved a party, a Tall Scotch & Water with a Twist (or ten), midnight munchies, a drive-thru window, assorted food products named “Jack” (Bonus, Breakfast), two Super Tacos, a large order of fries and a couple of regrettable hangovers. Steve is such a romantic![…]
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April 13th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Lani,
There is this group in San Francisco called Conservatree. I don’t know how to get their link in this comment so I apologize. They have an interesting calculator for figuring out how many trees we use in our paperless world. As an example 1 ream of paper = 6% of a tree. Without counting the mortgage companies who need all documents in tripicate, the lawyers who need duplicates - you get the picture (damn another piece of paper), I figured I have used over 90 trees during my esteemed .>) career.
Do the numbers for yourself, it will shake your tree.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
I missed your little green friend, at least he comes to visit!
April 17th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
We have replaced all of our light bulbs with compact fluoro bulbs, increase our recycling capabilities (although not at the rate I am happy with, needs more work), we have energy eff appliances, re-use, re-purpose items.