Does it matter if there are multiple green home programs in a single housing market?
Within reason, it’s fine. Different programs reach different home buyers. Nationally, LEED, with its relatively costly process, targets top performers. Green Communities has affordable housing covered. There’s a gap in the middle which is either filled by local programs or still up for grabs. (The National Association of Home Builders is trying). All help educate the market and expand capacity for building green. Do buyers have the choice to buy green? In most locations, no. There are individual green homes scattered about and a few green projects, but in my dense, popular, environmentally aware neighborhood, I can’t find anything that meets both my location and sustainability expectations. Why does solar installer Aaron Nitzkin of OCR Solar & Roofing predict the percent of a household’s electricity their system will provide? Ok – so I asked this one as an excuse to share a really cool chart. Habits and choices make a big difference in how much electricity people use, so when Nitzkin s
