“Conservation means more than simply following the minimum guidelines; it means taking a personal challenge to being a good steward.”
Be more than an educated consumer.
Learn how you can save money while you help your community and world enjoy a better, more energy-rich environment. We hope that these websites will help in your research and discovery.
The Energy and Environmental Building Association (EEBA)
The Mission of EEBA is to provide education and resources to transform the residential design, development and construction industries to profitably deliver energy efficient and environmentally responsible buildings and communities.
Built Green Colorado
Introduced in 1995, Built Green Colorado is one of oldest and largest green home building programs in the nation. A voluntary industry-driven program of the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver offered to builders across the state, the purpose of Built Green Colorado is to encourage home builders to use technologies, products and practices that result in homes that are better built and better for the environment.
Energy Star
ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy helping us all save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.
E-Star Colorado
E-Star™ is a division of the Smart Energy Living Alliance™, a Colorado-based nonprofit, and is committed to advancing energy efficiency in housing. To meet this objective, E-Star partners with, supports and provides information through its Energy Ratings to participants in the housing industry. This includes homeowners and home buyers, builders, Home Energy Raters, real estate professionals, code officials and utilities. E-Star understands the diverse concerns of each of these groups in respect to energy efficiency and its interrelation with factors such as construction schedules, comfort, home value, environmental issues and cost concerns.
Smart Energy Living Alliance
Smart Energy Living Alliance’s (SELA) mission is to help people make smart energy decisions. SELA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides unbiased information, tools and resources to help consumers make intelligent, responsible energy decisions. Informed energy users will live more efficiently, reducing their energy use and their utility bills while they enjoy increased comfort and resale value.
Residential Energy Services Network
The Residential Energy Services Network’s (RESNET®) mission is to ensure the success of the building energy performance certification industry, set the standards of quality and increase the opportunity for ownership of high performance buildings. RESNET is a membership 501(c)(3) non profit organization.
RESNET’S standards are officially recognized by the U.S. mortgage industry for capitalizing a building’s energy performance in the mortgage loan, certification of “White Tags” for private financial investors, and by the federal government for verification of building energy performance for such programs as federal tax incentives, the Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR program and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building America Program.
RESNET Ratings provides a relative energy use index called the HERS® Index – a HERS Index of 100 represents the energy use of the “American Standard Building” and an Index of 0 (zero) indicates that the Proposed Building uses no net purchased energy (a Zero Energy Building). A set of rater recommendations for cost-effective improvements that can be achieved by the Rated Building is also produced.
U.S. Green Building Council
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that certifies sustainable businesses, homes, hospitals, schools and neighborhoods. USGBC is dedicated to expanding green building practices and education, and its LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System™.
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System is a voluntary, consensus-based national rating system for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings. LEED addresses all building types and emphasizes state-of-the-art strategies in five areas: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials and resources selection, and indoor environmental quality.
City of Boulder’s (Colorado) Office of Environmental Affairs
Environmental Affairs provides leadership to achieve Boulder’s goals of sustainability and environmental quality. Our mission is to prevent pollution, reduce resource consumption and promote environmentally sustainable practices. We develop city policy, offer educational programs and partner with citizens, businesses and other organizations to protect Boulder’s environment.
City of Boulder’s (Colorado) Green Building and Green Points Program
The Office of Environmental Affairs supports the outreach and education of the city’s Green Building and Green Points Program that encourages the use of cost-effective and sustainable remodeling and building methods and technologies that conserve energy, water and other natural resources.
“Boulder County (Colorado) Build Smart” Program
Section N1104 implements the provisions of the "Boulder County BuildSmart" program whose primary purposes are to regulate the energy efficiency of the design and construction of residential buildings in unincorporated Boulder County as well as to reduce residential construction waste, conserve residential water use and insure proper indoor air quality within energy-efficient residential structures.
Rocky Mountain Institute
Rocky Mountain Institute® (RMI) is an independent, entrepreneurial, non-profit organization. We foster the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous and life-sustaining.
Our staff shows businesses, communities, individuals and governments how to create more wealth and employment, protect and enhance natural and human capital, increase profit and competitive advantage and enjoy many other benefits—largely by doing what they do far more efficiently. Our work is independent, nonadversarial and transideological, with a strong emphasis on market-based solutions.
Empire State Building Sustainability
This project aims to provide complete and transparent information on the Empire State Building’s sustainability retrofit. We hope to set a new standard for thinking about large commercial retrofits; a standard that owners, designers, engineers and tenants around the world can easily adopt.
The Green Building Initiative (GBI)
The Green Building Initiative (GBI) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to accelerate the adoption of building practices that result in energy-efficient, healthier and environmentally sustainable buildings by promoting credible and practical green building approaches for residential and commercial construction.
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