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The year of the rating policy?

 

It’s likely that 2011 will see a seismic shift in the landscape of environmental policy. Even in the efficiency world, where using and spending less appeals to both sides of the aisle, there are modulations ahead. With fresh fiscal attitudes adding to a down-trodden economy, the country is looking for innovative and cheap ways to reduce spending and induce growth.

A Shout Out From Our Friends at ICLEI

The awesome folks over at ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) were kind enough to lend their blog space to an IMT guest post on the launch of BuildingRating.org. We certainly hope that BuildingRating.org will prove to be an interesting and helpful resource for many of the over 600 local governments that belong to the ICLEI USA network.

A snippet from the blog:

On the Road to Find Out

As director of IMT’s building energy rating program for just more than a year now, I have had the wonderful privilege of traveling the country and the world to explore building energy disclosure policy.

Introducing BuildingRating.org

We are proud to announce (drumroll, please…) the official launch of the new one-stop-shop for everything you ever needed or wanted to know about the rating and disclosure of energy performance in buildings… BuildingRating.org.

Sunday afternoon blues

You know those rainy Sunday afternoons when you’re all out of peanut butter and can't think of anything to do? You’re too fat to go to the gym, your Ouija board is broken, and the only movies in theaters are starring Matt Damon. You're cold and lazy, and the only thing that could possibly lift your spirits is cruising through documents on international building energy rating and disclosure practices. Right?

I thought so.

National Energy Rating Program for Homes in the Works

Did you know that the U.S. Department of Energy is currently working to develop a voluntary, National Energy Rating Program for Homes? Go, Dr. Chu, go!

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