The Sustainable Green Communities featured in this section encourage environmentally sustainable development and a lifestyle that reduces consumption of non-renewable resources. Among the Sustainable Green Communities featured below, you will find communities offering LEED certified homes or working in partnership with certified green builders, as well as communities affiliated with organizations such as Audubon International.
NC Healthy Built Homes and NAHB Green are examples of programs offering certification to homes built according to green home standards. These homes are built to be energy efficient, water efficient, and have environmentally responsible site development characteristics.
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Located in a peaceful, rural setting, in Prescott, Arizona, Talking Rock Ranch is a 3,600-acre private, luxury home community with a casual western lifestyle and the amenities of an exclusive country club, including a Jay Morrish designed championship golf course. With more than 1,000 acres of preserved open space, Talking Rock offers large lots priced from the $200,000s, Ranch Cottages from the $500,000s and custom homes from $500,000.
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This conservation-oriented master-planned community is located in a natural setting just 20 minutes north of downtown San Diego, California. Eco-friendly, this award-winning community offers a collection of intimately designed neighborhoods built according to the latest green-building practices, with community parks, a planned town center, two schools and more than 1,000 acres of open space. Single-family homes with a choice of classic California home styles are priced from the $400,000s.
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Situated along Delaware's Southeastern Shore, Hamlet at Dirickson Pond offers quiet serenity in a country setting. Waterfront homes on a 35+ acre spring-fed pond, with additional views of Dirickson Creek and close proximity to several popular Atlantic beaches. Customizable homes on half-acre lots are priced from $260,900.
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One of Delaware's first private, gated golf communities. Amenities include a Jack Nicklaus signature golf course with golf complex, clubhouse, recreation center, tennis center and a nature and kayak center. Lots priced from $100,000; condos from $200,000; townhomes from $249,900; villas and homes from $349,000.
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Buyers at this established Palm Beach County country club community gain exclusive access to three historic golf courses originally developed as the home golfing facility of the PGA, plus a 22-court tennis center and a beautiful new sports complex. Highly regarded as a unique, private residential community, BallenIsles is home to some of the world's top professional athletes and business leaders. Single-family homes, condos and villas priced from $250,000 to over $3 million.
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Choose from a selection of competitively priced certified green homes at this new Kissimmee-area gated neighborhood located near Lake Tohopekaliga, about 45 minutes from downtown Orlando and 20 miles from Walt Disney World. Energy-efficient three- and four-bedroom homes with wide lots and family-friendly back yards are priced from $136,400.
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Central Park at Lakewood Ranch is a family-friendly gated real estate development offering affordable new single-family homes for sale less than an hour south of Tampa in Manatee County’s green-certified Lakewood Ranch master-planned community. Low-maintenance two- to five-bedroom homes surrounding a spacious community park are priced from the mid-$100,000s.
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This new gated enclave of 450 maintenance-free villas and single-family homes is the only active-lifestyle all-ages community at Lakewood Ranch, an established master-planned residential and commercial development in the Sarasota-Bradenton area of west-central Florida. Maintenance-free villas and single-family homes priced from the $200,000s.
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This 3,000-acre master-planned community located in southeast Hillsborough County is certified by the Florida Green Building Coalition. FishHawk Ranch features a variety of amenities including four community clubhouses, swimming pools, fitness centers, playgrounds, parks and one of the largest trail systems in the country. The community offers maintenance-free townhomes, villas, single-family, and custom homes priced from the $100,000’s.
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New coach homes for sale at this private island real estate development offer buyers a secluded coastal lifestyle with easy access to shopping, dining and health care in the highly desirable Bradenton-Sarasota area. Three- to four-bedroom coach homes priced from the $340,000s.
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