June 22
Improvements to older homes could help cut energy use by more than 20%, according to a new study sponsored by the U.S. Green Building Council and the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.
"The report found that if all pre-2000 homes were brought up to the same efficiency as post-2000 homes in their regions, residential energy consumption would fall by 22.5% -- reducing the financial strain on American families and directly tackling our collective environmental challenges," said Casius Pealer, director of affordable housing policy at USGBC.
The report is titled "The State of the Nationīs Housing 2010." More information is available at www.jchs.harvard.edu/publications/markets/son2010/index.htm.
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