Reporting on Sustainably Built Environments from Bricks to Cities
The weekend is here again. The biggest news this week in Green building and Energy news is the denunciation of the PACE Program by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. There has been a lot of backlash against Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s new policy against PACE Program where a state and a town in New [...]
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) is a program which allow local government entities to offer sustainable energy project loans to eligible property owners. Through a voluntary assessment on their property tax bills; homeowners had the option to offset the upfront costs of energy-efficient and renewable energy installation. As a part of a clean energy stimulus [...]
Carbon Sciences, Inc., a developer of technology to transform greenhouse gases into gasoline and other portable fuels, has announced the appointment of a scientific adviser, Dr. Howard Fong, to its staff. Fong worked at Shell Development Company (Shell Oil Company) at the Westhollow Technology Center in Houston, Texas in 1975, and rose to the rank [...]
One of the best ways to go green and save money for homeowners is solar power. However, the upfront costs of installing a solar power system can be a deterrent for even the most Environmentally minded consumers. Now there is a program which can off fray the initial cost of solar energy in the home [...]
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