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Former President Bill Clinton and Brad Pitt (Getty Images)
Brad Pitt told former President Bill Clinton and other luminaries at the Clinton Global Initiative that the average electric bill for a New Orleans home built by the Make It Right foundation is $35 a month -- and the cost of building the energy-efficient homes is comparable to that of standard homes.
I don't know how we build any other way anywhere else. We can no longer tell ourselves that implementing this technology is too complex a problem because it's just been proven on this little spot on the map.
That "little spot" was declared the “largest and greenest community of single-family homes in the world” by the U.S. Green Building Council, which honored Pitt with an award at the CGI on Thursday.
President Clinton joined Pitt to break ground on the project back in March. So far 13 LEED platinum-ceritifed homes are built and occupied, with another 37 slated for completion by December 2009. The project will build 150 homes by December 2010.
Sources: Associated Press, ABC News
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