News and Insights

Some of the Green REsource Council’s past EverGreen winners have become stars of the sustainable housing industry. 

Think of Craig Foley and his expertise on everything from valuation and marketing of high-performance buildings and energy management, to green advocacy and education. 

The American Lung Association’s “State of the Air® 2017” examines and ranks cities’ air quality. 
Here are the six cities (listed alphabetically) with the cleanest air. 

The launch of a solar blog. Seeking advice about putting on a green event. Styling a green home features sheet like a nutrition label. A happy hour event at an under-construction house for a behind-the-walls look at energy efficiency features. Questions about promoting a newly minted GREEN Designation.

It’s the season for picnics, weddings, graduations, barbeques, fish boils, and clambakes. 

Fun as they are, at the end of these events, garbage cans typically are overflowing with plastic water bottles, paper plates, and food waste.  

So it’s worth employing these 10 eco-friendly basics to make sure your summer party isn’t too hard on the environment. 

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) released its City Energy Efficiency Scorecard for 2017, which ranks 51 large U.S. cities on how they’re doing with energy efficiency improvements.