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Satellite Beach has rejected the anything-goes approach of much of Florida, and the city wants its new boutique hotel to be a model for environmentally responsible development. But is even one new building in this region one too many?

This new green building may be just the thing to help a Florida town stand up to climate change. Or not.

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A small Florida community wants to build the greenest, most climate change-resilient hotel around. But some say the only way to built in a climate-friendly way there is not to build at all.

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