EPA for our region

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/names/r07_2007-9-19_brownfields_grants

Money is available for nonprofit organizations and other eligible groups to provide technical assistance to communities facing brownfields cleanup and redevelopment challenges. Deadline to apply for that money is Tuesday, Oct. 2. EPA expects to award up to four cooperative agreements, one in each geographic zone. An estimated $4 million will be available. The maximum value of each grant will be based on the needs of the geographic zone, up to $2 million.

Home Energy Saver

The Home Energy Saver is designed to help consumers identify the best ways to save energy in their homes, and find the resources to make the savings happen. The Home Energy Saver was the first Internet-based tool for calculating energy use in residential buildings. The project is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), as part of the national ENERGY STAR Program for improving energy efficiency in homes, with previous support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's PATH projgram, and the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program

NCAT's Smart Communities Network: Green Buildings Success Stories (National Center for Appropriate Technology, BUTTE MT)

THE NCAT MISSION
Helping People by championing small-scale, local, and sustainable solutions to reduce poverty, promote healthy communities, and protect natural resources.

NCEF National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities

Created in 1997 by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF) provides information on planning, designing, funding, building, improving, and maintaining safe, healthy, high performance schools.

A Tamer of Schools Has Plan in New Orleans: Make the Schools Community Centers.

“You begin to make the schools community centers,” he said. “The whole objective here is to keep the schools open through the dinner hour, and keep schools open 11 months out of the year.”

The strategy is hardly new. Mr. Vallas put elements of it into effect in the much larger cities he served previously. Yet the scale of it, in New Orleans, will have to be much bigger because of the greater poverty here. Considerably more than half the children here will require this total approach, he said, unlike in Chicago, say, where the figure would have been closer to a third.

NCEF School Building Statistics

NESEA Green School Resources

The Alliance to Save Energy produces a green schools newsletter and organizes the "Earth Apple Awards" – prizes for schools that use energy efficiently.

The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) is the Northeast’s leading organization of professionals and concerned citizens working in sustainable energy and whole systems thinking. NESEA facilitates the widespread adoption and use of sustainable energy by providing support to industry professionals and by educating and motivating consumers to learn about, ask for, and adopt sustainable energy and green building practices. NESEA accomplishes this through its Building Energy conference and trade show, K-12 resources, an advocacy network, high profile public events such as the Tour de Sol and the Green Building Open House, its chapters and members, and its Sustainable Green Pages. 

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National Wildlife Federation:  Campus Ecology.

RS Means Quick Cost Estimator

Select from more than 50 building types in 930 locations throughout the U.S. and Canada. The RSMeans Quick Cost Estimator enables you to quickly calculate an estimated value of total project cost localized to your selected area. The calculations include add-on costs itemizing low, medium & high estimates for Architectural Fees & Contractor's Overhead & Profit.

School Operations and Maintenance: Best Practices for Controlling Energy Costs

School Operations and Maintenance: Best Practices for Controlling Energy Costs