Helping You and Your Home be Green

We believe that it is our duty as homebuilders and community members to be environmentally conscious. We recently replaced the light bulbs in our office building with CFL bulbs and are looking for more ways to join the ‘green movement.’

Throughout our quest to find more ways to be better with the environment we came across two tools that we wanted to share. You have probably heard the term ‘carbon footprint,’ but have you ever known how to figure out your own carbon footprint? By visiting the website www.carbonfootprint.com you can use their online calculator to determine yours and then figure out how to offset it. Some of our employees have already starting trying this and we recommend you try it too!

We also found a website in one of the magazines we receive (Green Builder) that we thought was worth sharing. The website is www.nahbgeen.org and the tool that we have started using is the Green Scoring Tool. In order to use this you must create a username and password, but from there you can enter information about your own home and the website will give you a score based on your answers that will tell you if your home is green. The scores range from bronze to silver to gold.

We hope you find these tools as useful as we have!