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Published February 20, 2021, 9:59 AM
In the real estate industry, the prevailing thought to this day is that when asked ‘What are the three most important factors in successfully selling real estate?’ the smart quippy answer is to say, ‘Location, location, & location.’ Experts in the industry will swear by this adage, saying that no property features such as building, ground, design, or price can hold sway over the almighty location.
But the inescapable truth is that for decades now, there has been a growing clamor for the responsible design and construction of buildings. Especially in First World nations, real estate companies have heeded this call and have turned into green developers, aware of their responsibility in terms of what sort of carbon footprint they leave behind; and how going green impacts not only on their role as developers, but plays a big part in the lives of the people who will occupy their buildings and structures, whether it be an office edifice or a r
plantitos and
plantitas growing super expensive plants often with weird-looking inedible green-and-white leaves. Spare time while in self-quarantine made me an accidental
farmtito. I had tossed overripe grocery store tomatoes to a snake plant
pasô and a plant sprouted, flowered, and fruited, yielding me at least one tomato every day for lunch. Happily growing in other pots are what I think is a turmeric plant and
monggo seedlings, one already flowering despite a rather aggressive
ampalaya vine that hooks on to anything. A durian seedling is already a foot high, although its future is not too bright in its flowerpot.