EarthCraft Summer Newsletter

This fall marks the 15th Anniversary of EarthCraft! Congratulations to everyone for being a part of one of the most successful, transformative and meaningful green building programs in the nation. EarthCraft has changed the lives for many homeowners; everything from saving them money on energy bills, improving their children and family’s health, and for some …

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Energy-Saving Features of the Serenbe Community

EarthCraft-certified homes at Serenbe are energy-efficient, and planned transit improvements will also help save energy,  http://bit.ly/16uCiwu POSTED ON SEP 19 2013 BY ALEX WILSON In this blog last week I described some of the unique features of Serenbe, a New Urbanist community outside Atlanta, where I had the good fortune to be invited by the Bosch Experience Center as a …

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Atlanta Partnership Makes Green Homes Affordable

The biggest hurdle in owning or renting a “green” home has been having enough green to afford it. A new partnership between The Home Depot Foundation, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., the City of Atlanta and Southface is hoping to get more low-income homebuyers into hundreds of EarthCraft-certified homes, which carry the “green” designation.  The partners’ …

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Southface Journal – Affordable Housing Takes on a New Look

Five years ago, environmental visionaries Karl Bren and Chuk Bowles first conceived of bringing a green building program to Virginia. Read More