{"id":987,"date":"2005-03-30T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/03\/30\/the-sustainable-mortgage\/"},"modified":"2005-03-30T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-30T20:28:00","slug":"the-sustainable-mortgage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-sustainable-mortgage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sustainable Mortgage"},"content":{"rendered":"
Treehugger points us<\/a> to the UK’s Ecology Building Society<\/a>, which provides loans for “properties with ‘an ecological payback.\u201d This is great news, because (as the post author notes), mortgages on sustainable buildings are likely to earn you a higher interest rate. Now, if we can just get insurance companies to recognize the value of “ecological payback,” and start insuring green homes and buildings more widely.<\/p>\n Technorati tags:green building<\/a>, financing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Treehugger points us to the UK’s Ecology Building Society, which provides loans for “properties with ‘an ecological payback.\u201d This is great news, because (as the post author notes), mortgages on [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n