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I found an interesting announcement, that deserves to be headline. There is a company called Unity Homes who is helping bring affordable, energy-efficient housing to residents who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina. The community of North Gulfport, Mississippi celebrated a few months ago the launching of a prototype for modular green homes priced for low-income buyers. The green home has Energy Star qualified appliances, high efficiency heating and cooling systems, energy-efficient lighiting and locally produced green building materials. The homes are 52% more energy efficient than a similar size house built in a traditional way. The company aims at selling the 1200 square ft. homes at US $85000, for which they plan to establish a factory in the community, which could be ready by the end of 2007, producing 250 houses a year. How is that for creativity.