Building Green Homes, Green Jobs

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Building Green Homes, Green Jobs Green
Communities

• Supervisor Steve Bellone, LEED AP
• Babylon, New York

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Green Policies

• 12x12 Initiative to Combat Global WarmingBabylon
  commits to reduce carbon footprint 12 by 2012
• Energy Star Standards for New Home
  ConstructionFirst Town on Long Island, 11 of 13
  L.I. Towns follow
• Most Comprehensive Green Building Code in the
  NationLEED Standards for all new public and
  private buildings

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Babylons Consumption
Residential housing accounts for 38 of the
Towns energy consumption, adding 1,146,690 tons
of CO2 into the air every year.
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GREEN HOMES
green your house, slash your energy bill, reduce
your carbon footprint
at little or no cost to you.
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Financing Green Homes
Redefined solid waste to include energy waste
based on its carbon content Apply a benefit
assessment on the home homeowner assumes no new
debt, pays for improvements with energy savings
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GREEN HOMES Pilot

• 122 Homes audited and/or completed
• Average cost of improvements 6,997.96
• Average annual savings to homeowner 995.66
• Reduced CO2 emissions by 156 tons

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Green Policies
Economic Development
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Green Homes Green Careers

• Local Jobs
• Increase in jobs of 23.5
• Green Careers

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Wyandanch Rising

• Most economically distressed community on Long
  Island
• Green Revitalization

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www.thebabylonproject.org