Building a Green Home - Rebate Incentives

Summary: Building a Green Home reduces the overall impact on human health and the natural environment. Rebate Incentives are available in almost every state.

Building green is the practice of creating or remodeling structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle.

The common objective in building or remodeling a sustainable green design home (also known as building green, green building, green construction or sustainable building) is that green buildings are designed to reduce the overall impact on human health and the natural environment by:

• Efficiently using energy, water, and other resources
• Protecting occupant health
• Reducing waste, pollution and the depletion of resources such as air, water and soil.

It can be as simple as installing appliances, HVAC equipment, windows, etc. that are very energy efficient, or even just insulating your home to a higher value than minimum requirements.

It all adds up to a better environment.

It doesn't cost that much more to build a green sustainable home, and it can add up in large savings on your energy bills.

And, did you know you might be able to get an immediate reward for being a good steward!

Imagine getting a check from your city water department for $250 just because you were “green” thinking and bought a new energy efficient washing machine!

Well that’s what Los Angeles has been doing to promote water conservation. Other cities and states, and even the Federal Government, are also promoting energy efficiency and water conservation.

Many people are totally unaware of what programs are available on a city, state or federal level that will give them some additional incentive to conserve. I call these incentives, “Green for Green”.

Here is a wonderful web site that will give you the information you need to find incentives to “go green”. It is called, DSIRE.

The DSIRE website provides a fast and convenient method for accessing information about renewable energy and energy efficiency incentives and regulatory policies administered by federal and state agencies, utilities, and local organizations.

Financial Incentives = tax incentives, grants, loans, rebates, industry recruitment, bond programs, and production incentives.

Save the planet, save money doing it.

Carl Heldmann