WegoWise joined over a thousand attendees (and Daryl Hannah) at the annual ACI National conference last week in Baltimore, MD, where we found great weather for walking by the harbor, a huge variety of sessions, and a lot of knowledgeable people from different industries. A Home Energy Leadership Summit led off the week, followed by the Home Performance Conference.
Tags: News and Policy, Energy efficiency, Affordable housing, Building science
In its February 24th issue, the New England Real Estate Journal profiles WegoWise's partnership with the US Green Building Council to provide energy tracking for LEED for Homes multifamily certified buildings. To read more, check out USGBC's Building Performance Partnership and Wegowise's LEED for Homes landing page.
Tags: News and Policy, Energy efficiency, Affordable housing, Building science
Living in a multi-family building significantly reduces an individual’s ecological footprint: less energy is needed for heating and cooling, less land and fewer resources are used to accommodate more people, and shared recreational areas use less water and maintenance resources than single family homes. In 2001, the EPA found that a two-bedroom condo in a building with less than four units uses 13% less energy than a two-bedroom house. This is equivalent to 79 gallons of gasoline!
Tags: Funding, Affordable housing
Whether you want to be a more informed citizen or just want to kill some time before 5 on a Friday afternoon, WegoWise has got you covered. This Friday we're focusing on housing--not just the newfangled stuff coming down the pike, but also innovative ways to deal with existing buildings. So peruse our best links, give us some feedback and be sure to share some of the info you just gleaned with other interested parties at the parties you are hopefully attending this weekend. Brought to you by Dan, Nate, Sean and Lily.
Across the country, housing developers and operations staff struggle with decision over whether to make their properties smoke-free. As attitudes around smoking policies in general have shifted over the past decade, the sometimes controversial issue of whether to allow residents to smoke in their units, or even in their buildings, has been brought to the forefront.
Whether you want to be a more informed citizen or just want to kill some time before 5 on a Friday afternoon, WegoWise has got you covered. So peruse our best links, give us some feedback and be sure to share some of the info you just gleaned with other interested parties at the parties you are hopefully attending this weekend. Brought to you by Dan, Nate, Sean and Lily.
1. 100 Million Smart Meters in Europe by 2016
2. LEED Certifies First Multifamily Residential Apartments
3. Climate Change Can Make Hurricanes More Intense
4. Boosting the Economy Through Food
5. 1,000,000,000 Cars Worldwide
Tags: Renewables, News and Policy, Energy efficiency, Affordable housing, Building science
Whether you want to be a more informed citizen or just want to kill some time before 5 on a Friday afternoon, WegoWise has got you covered. So peruse our best links, give us some feedback and be sure to share some of the info you just gleaned with other interested parties at the parties you are hopefully attending this weekend. Brought to you by Dan, Nate, Sean and Lily.
Tags: News and Policy, Energy efficiency, Affordable housing, Water Conservation
At WegoWise we admire New Ecology's mission of community-based sustainable development, so we jumped at the chance to have Alison Corwin introduce their new online project on our blog:
Tags: Renewables, Energy efficiency, Affordable housing, Water Conservation
is the American branch of Green Cross International, a group based in Sweden thats mission is to promote sustainability and, to put it their words, "reconnect humanity with the environment." Global Green's Devin Lowell, WegoWise's first guest blogger, wrote this article for us:
