Energy efficiency scores
Read the full story in Sustainable Industries Journal.
Education is power. That’s what two Oregon nonprofits are teaming up to prove.
Portland-based Earth Advantage, a green building advisory and certification group, together with The Energy Trust of Oregon, a Portland-based organization promoting energy efficiency, in July 2008 launched a scoring system intended to give Oregon homeowners, builders, real estate agents and mortgage lenders a way to gauge a home’s energy use and emissions.