Please look for the newest advertisements and Green Building articles by Maui’s First Female EcoBroker: Meghan Clair of Windermere Real Estate Wailea LLC in these locations:
Hotels: Four Seasons Maui, Grand Wailea
Magazines: Wailea Where Magazine, Where Guestbook, Where Quickguide, Hawaiian Luxury Home Magazine, Real Estate Maui Style
Homes and Lands Magazine HI, VITEC, The Shops at Wailea […]

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Please watch this video where I am interviewed by County Council candidate Netra Halperin at the Wailuku First Friday Event!
Scroll to 5 min 38 seconds to start at my interview.

IT PAYS TO THINK GREEN, WHEN INVESTING IN MAUI REAL ESTATE!
MClair@Windermere.com

It pays to think GREEN when investing in Real Estate
Green Real Estate refers to a property designed or built to reduce environmental impacts; create a safer, more efficient living or working environment; reduce operating cost; and improve occupant health.
Recently, “Going Green” has become not just a hot trend, but a new lifestyle choice for […]

The plastic bag reduction bill, which prohibits businesses from providing plastic bags to customers at check-out counters, passed its second and third reading at the Maui County Council meeting on Aug. 22. The bill was passed unanimously at the meeting with no amendments made, and will come into effect on Jan. 11, 2011.
Councilmember Michael Molina […]

According to a 2007 National Association of Home Builders survey, 63 percent of buyers are motivated by the lower operating and maintenance costs that come with energy- and resource-efficient homes (Environment News Service, March 2007), and to help them find these homes consumers are looking for green home-buying and selling strategy experts who have received […]

While it is one thing for famous architects, urban planners, and advocates to establish a vision for a green future, it will be the marketplace that makes the ultimate decision. To put it simply, will people buy it?
There are signs that the public is coming to that position as energy costs increase, global warming […]

CLICK THE PLAY ICON TO SEE US IN ACTION BUILDING 3 HOMES THIS YEAR!
Mahalos to everyone for their hard work!
Windermere Wailea volunteering for HH
Habitat For Humanity, Maui is a locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a non profit organization. Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with people in need to build and […]

HONOLULU — With a heavy reliance on imported fossil fuels, Hawaii has become the first state to require solar water heaters in new homes, pleasing environmentalists. Republican Gov. Linda Lingle signed a bill Thursday requiring the energy-saving systems starting in 2010. She said the law is “another important step in our long-term plan for energy […]

What is Biodiesel?
Biodiesel is a cleaner-burning alternative “diesel” fuel, made from 100% natural, 100% renewable sources. Biodiesel can be used in place of standard diesel (which is made from fossil fuels) in almost any place that regular diesel is called for.
On Maui most biodiesel is made from used cooking oil. This cooking oil is […]

The Hawai’i Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) is making applications available for $20 million in Mortgage Credit Certificates (MCC) to first-time home buyers of low to moderate income.

The MCC program, authorized by Congress in the 1984 Tax Reform Act, reduces the amount of federal income tax, allowing more available income to qualify for […]