HBADE Home Show Highlights Green Building and Living

Despite the rainy, windy and cold weather this past weekend, lots of people trekked to the Chase Center in Wilmington to attend the Home Builder's Home Show.

Attendees at the show were able to see many different green-minded products from hundreds of vendors. Our Green Building Council (including Howard and many of our clients and colleagues) staffed a booth and provided answers for the people asking various questions about green and reminding them to look for the NAHB certified green logo on new construction in order to make sure they were really buying a green home and not getting greenwashed.

Jim McCulley was a featured speaker, talking about green building and how to avoid greenwashing. Other speakers included DNREC Secreatry Collin O'Mara, Ralph Nigro who spoke about the stimulus package, and UD students who presented green energy seminars.

Interesting Stimulus Plan

This has nothing to do with environmental consulting but is a very interesting concept. Post your business plan for all to see and if it is selected get funding for giving up some percentage of equity. The results should be very interesting.

http://blogmaverick.com/2009/02/09/the-mark-cuban-stimulus-plan-open-source-funding/

Homebuyer Tax Credit

The staff of JCM Environmental was a small part of the voice our Congressmen heard this week. We understand how important it is to get the homebuilding industry moving again to help stabilize our economy. We are in full support of the NAHB "Fix Housing First" initiative and while we don't necessarily support all of the aspects of the stimulus bill, we are glad to see that the Homebuyer Tax Credit was added by a voice vote yesterday.

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