While attending a local event for home performance contractors recently, one subject popped up in two separate conversations that I have been thinking about for awhile now and would like to open up for comment: Time of Sale Energy Labeling of Homes. This is the practice of having a mandatory energy rating or audit done of [...]
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On Tuesday of this week the Federal Housing Finance Agency which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and over 50% of the mortgages in the United States, issued a statemet which effectively put at end to PACE programs at least temporarily. They instructed their lenders and loan servicers to adjust their underwriting criteria in any [...]
2009 may well go down in the record books as one of the economically worst in recent memory. Venture capitol investing and IPOs fell to their lowest levels in over 10 years. Governments around the globe scrambled to implement stimulus programs to shore up their crumbling economies and try to create jobs to counter rising [...]
Solar Power Inc. of Roseville a manufacturer and installer of commercial, industrial and residential PV solar systems has recieved $24.7 million in Stimulus funding. Founded in 2005, Solar Power has installed numerous PV solar systems including the largest PV system in the state of Georgia at the Mannheim DRIVE Center a 165,000 square foot auto [...]
The Walmart Sustainability Index: A Win for Consumers or Just Another Way to Dominate the Market?
Feb 17
Last fall Walmart rolled out a three phase plan to create a label for it’s 100,000 plus products to inform consumers of the environmental impacts of each of those products. Imagine something like the nutrition labels required on food by the FDA except instead of listing calories, fat and protein, it might list the green [...]
