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  Couple lives green in their Key Largo dream

  South-facing small windows and Bahama shutters, light paint and a white roof offer clues to the character of this house within a hammock: It is a ''green'' home that proudly wears a photovoltaic system and thermal water heater on its roof and envelopes a 7,500-gallon cistern within its walls.
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  In '50s, solar technology gave way to electricity

  More than 80 years ago, Miami was on the cutting edge of solar technology, using it to heat water. ''There was a company in Miami that was the biggest solar water heating company in the United States in the 1920s and '30s,'' said solar expert Jim Dunlop.
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  Roof size dictates sun power

  Can home photovoltaic systems meet all the electrical needs of your house? Probably not. The biggest limiting factor, aside from cost, is the area of roof available for the panels.
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  The new voices of Century Village

  An influx of Hispanics is changing the face of the retiree paradise in Pembroke Pines.

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