Category: Healthy Homes Initiative
Betting Your Life: Always a Bad Gamble
Raymond Thomas -- Project Manager, Healthy Homes, NASCSP -- “Take a bite out of crime.” “Click it or ticket!” “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” You have undoubtedly heard one, if
READ MOREWeatherization Plus Health: New Virtual Conference Updates an Old Tune
Raymond Thomas -- Project Manager, Healthy Homes, NASCSP -- In the late 1980’s singer-songwriter Brenda Russell first recorded the hit song Get Here which goes, You can reach me by railway, you can reach me by trailway…You can reach me by caravan, cross the desert like an Arab man…I don’t care how you get here, just—get here if you can. Tight budgets mean travel approvals are harder
READ MORERapid Health Impact Assessment: Weatherization Plus Health in Connecticut
By Lynne Snyder, Ph.D., MPH, Consultant, Healthy Homes How can Connecticut achieve its energy goal and create positive health outcomes, while reducing potentially negative impacts on health? This week, a team led by the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) sub-grantee New Opportunities, Inc. and the Connecticut Association for Community Action (CAFCA) will release a rapid Health Impact
E&E News: Sequester Could Kill Weatherization Program - DOE Official
-- Originally published in E&E News - written by Nick Juliano, E&E reporter -- Looming across-the-board spending cuts could doom a Department of Energy program that provides grants to install new windows, upgrade insulation and perform other energy efficiency projects for low-income homeowners, a top official said yesterday. The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's
READ MOREEVENT SUMMARY: Strategy for Action to Advance Healthy Housing
-- Re-posted from the Weatherization Plus Health blog -- On Monday, February 4th, the federal Healthy Homes Work Group (HHWG) held an event at the National Building Museum to launch the new Advancing Healthy Housing: A Strategy for Action. The Strategy lays out the goals and priorities of the HHWG to advance healthy housing initiatives for the next three to five years nationwide. The event also
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