Posts Tagged ‘LEED’

Green Homes For All

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

We’re definitely getting somewhere when affordable housing gets green standards, too. — BGM

Habitat for Humanity Gets Greener

By Kate Galbraith

Habitat

Habitat for Humanity, the nonprofit home building organization headquartered in Americus, Ga., announced plans on Tuesday to build 5,000 “green” homes around the country for low-income families.

The homes, built over five years, will meet EnergyStar guidelines or other green building standards, like LEED. The project expands on a pilot program and is being done in conjunction with the Home Depot Foundation.
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10 Greenest Cities in the U.S.

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Good on all the eco-friendliest, but shame on Boulder for not making the list…AGAIN — BGM

Written by Tom Schueneman

The Mother Nature Network has just published their list of the ten greenest cities in the United States.

There is as yet no official criteria set by the EPA for determining a city’s “greeness,” MNN considered key areas to measure the effectiveness of a municipality’s efforts at carbon footprint reduction, including air and water quality, efficient recylcling and management of waste, percentage of LEED certified buildings, acres of land devoted to green space, use of renewable energy, and easy access to green products and services.
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