Obama’s Home Star Program
Here’s a very thorough article from the Mother Nature Network on President Obama’s proposed Home Star program. The $6 billion investment in energy efficiency was announced earlier this month in our great state of Georgia. The program, according to this article, could result in a carbon emissions savings tantamount to the output of 615,000 cars. To drive the point home perhaps more tangibly, we’re talking a savings to homeowners of $9.4 billion over 10 years.
If cash for clunkers is a model for cash for caulkers, we may have some great success with this. Nothing reaches voters like their pocketbook. And how much more local can politics get than one’s own home?
Imagine this: the amount of air leakage in the average home is like leaving open a 4×6 window in one’s house all year long. So I heard at the recent MIT Energy Conference — along with just how erratic and impossible the data is right now on these retrofits.
There’s a long way to go. But we need to start with outreach and early adoption.
Here’s the link to the MNN story with plenty more details:
http://tinyurl.com/yg2gznv
