MountainSun Resources

07/16/2018

What makes a great city?

A great farmers market.

Ranging from tiny seasonal popups to year-round attractions, more than 8,700 farmers’ markets are registered with the USDA’s National Farmers’ Market Directory. With so many farmers’ markets these days, it can be hard to know how to choose where to shop and why it makes a difference. A farme...

02/09/2018

Nice work Squaw Alpine! Hope other resorts follow this lead. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows Tesla

Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows ski resort announced last Wednesday that it has entered into a collaborative agreement with California based Liberty Utilities to identify energy resources to meet its g…

10/10/2017

Climbers Taylor Rees and Renan Ozturk's home in Park City sits at the intersection of modernity and sustainability. This constantly evolving structure called the "Summit Haus" was designed by architect Chris Price to focus on using passive solar energy, and was inspired by the fact tha...

10/09/2017

We see you, Austin, Portland, Nashville...
At its core, sustainable development is the intersection of community and the environment. Smart, sustainable growth focuses not only on the environment/conservation but also is just as much about creating cool spaces where people enjoy being and culture can flourish - walkable, local-centric, business friendly, community driven neighborhoods. A lot can be learned from seeing what has been successful in organically grown cities where old meets new in harmony. Smart planning equals positive environmental, social AND economic change.

Lonely Planet

10/03/2017

Saving Lake Tahoe - with more (re)development?
Smarter and greener. Low-impact and environmentally friendly re-development could be the answer to aging buildings and parking lots contributing to runoff affecting water quality. By reducing impervious cover and increasing green spaces, developments can be transformed to more functional spaces using innovative best water-management practices to and

Strict development rules around Lake Tahoe were meant to protect the lake’s legendary clarity, but an unexpected consequence is that many aging developments in the area are turning into shabby old buildings on environmentally sensitive land.

09/18/2017

Whisper Valley, outside Austin, is leading the way in creating an agricultural-based and energy neutral model for sustainable living. MountainSun is stoked to be part of the team.

A new master-planned community in East Austin is raising the bar for smart homes. Whisper Valley is a 2,062-acre mixed use development of more than 700 acres of parks and ...

09/10/2017

Wildfires have burned more than a million acres in the northern Rockies—and it could get even worse.

08/22/2017

Join our global movement: http://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/join

07/26/2017

Builders and developers, take note.

And orders are first come, first served.

06/23/2017

Sustainable development means balancing social, environmental and economic needs (people, planet, profit). Sustainability is an integral part of high performance development. Due to many factors, energy efficient and environmentally friendly development is becoming more the norm, but its still not yet the standard. Sustainability needs to be the top priority and developers can still do much more to be forward looking and to building a more sustainable and equitable planet.

Developers are pushing for aggressive greenhouse gas reductions and other environmentally friendly building and business practices.

06/06/2017

California gets ambitious. Hopefully the world is watching.

California took a major step in ditching fossil fuels after the state Senate passed a ...

06/01/2017

Everyone, everywhere can fight climate change. Stand up for what the Paris Agreement represents & join our global movement for the planet today.