Category: Energy and Green Intiatives
Paying for What Works: NASC and the Center for American Progress Talk SIBs
-- Jovita Tolbert, Development Director of the National Alliance for Sustainable Communities (NASC) -- Implemented in the UK, the first Social Impact Bond (SIB) was launched by Social Finance in September 2010. Today, Massachusetts, New York, and Minnesota are experimenting with SIBs, or a variation of them. What’s more, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is working with the
READ MOREEnergy Efficiency: A Bright Idea
-- by Rebecca Stewart, Program Coordinator -- These days, it seems like all anyone talks about is jobs and an ever gloomier economic outlook. It has even become a meme to respond to a question or begin a sentence with an ever-so-ironic, “well, in this economy...” Congress is mired in partisan bickering and a clear solution for how to solve the myriad very real problems facing the nation
Keeping an Eye on U.S. Environmental Sustainability: An Energy and Climate Policy Update
-- Edited by Jovita A. Tolbert, National Alliance for Sustainable Communities -- New Method to Measure Cost-Effectiveness of Residential Building Energy Codes Introduced. The U.S. Department of
CQ Roll Call Op-Ed - Warfield: Weatherization is Effective Investment
The CQ Roll Call, a very influential source for breaking news of legislative tracking and political maneuvering, recently published "Warfield: Weatherization is Effective Investment," an op-ed written by Tim Warfield, Executive Director of NASCSP. The article addresses the concerns about funding cuts to the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) and the economic impacts related to program
READ MOREUpdate: WAP @ the White House: Quick Facts from the Event!
[caption id="attachment_887" align="aligncenter" width="750"] Kathleen Hogan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency, and the Economic Impact Panel at the White House’s Weatherization
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