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El Nino Fuels the Need to Prepare for a More Active Tornado Season, says IBHS
March 16, 2010 Posted by Florida RealEstateRama
Tampa, FL - March 16, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) — With an El Nino winter almost behind us, it is time to start preparing for what forecasters predict will be an active spring for tornadoes, warns the Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS).
Florida Housing Launches Green Building Website
January 12, 2010 Posted by Florida RealEstateRama
TALLAHASSEE, FL - January 12, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) — Florida Housing Finance Corporation (Florida Housing) recently launched a new Web site aimed at encouraging green building practices in affordable housing across the state of Florida. The site, www.floridahousing.org/GreenBuilding, is another example of Florida Housing’s recent push to “Go Green.”
Florida Association of Realtors® Announces Face of Foreclosure Project and Website
July 8, 2009 Posted by Florida RealEstateRama
ORLANDO, FL - July 8, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — Across Florida, people are struggling to deal with some of the aftershocks caused by the current economy, including the alarming rise in foreclosed homes now devastating families and communities
Florida to Host World’s Second-Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant
April 16, 2009 Posted by Florida RealEstateRama
April 16, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — By mid 2010, Florida Power and Light (FPL) will construct the Martin Next-Generation Solar Energy Center, a 75-megawatt (MW) plant that will sit on 500 acres near Indiantown, Florida—adjacent to FPL’s combined-cycle power facility. The solar plant will be the world’s first hybrid energy facility and the largest solar plant of any kind outside of California. Two other solar facilities have homes in Florida—one at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and the other roughly 70 miles southwest of St. Petersburg—and with the new plant, they will collectively produce 110 MW of electric power.
Better-Connected Homes Increase Tornado Protection
February 12, 2008 Posted by Florida RealEstateRama
IBHS says affordable options exist but aren’t implemented in inland areas of U.S.
Tampa – The devastating tornadoes that recently stunned five states are a reminder of nature’s power and unpredictability. But according to the Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), houses in inland areas of the United States would have a greater chance of […]
