Join Diggerslist.com and promote recycling

This post is regarding diggerslist.com, a website similar to Craigslist, but for building materials and home improvement classifieds. The CSC Habitat for Humanity's ReStore is the sponsor to get it up and running in Columbia. The site, just like the ReStore, will help keep usable materials out of the landfill. Once we get 100 people to sign up, (FREE to sign up and post to) the Columbia site will go online. (Spread the word!)

This is a great opportunity to promote going green! Oh, and if you have usable items collecting dust, we pick up! Check out our new website at www.cscrestore.org!
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dig•gers•list n. a free online home improvement and construction classifieds that helps homeowners, contractors and do-it-yourselfers save money, find jobs and complete projects.

Central South Carolina Habitat for Humanity ReStore and diggerslist.com are teaming up to help Columbia Go Green! You can sign up for free here.

It is free to post and sell, so don’t trash it, cash it! Help keep usable materials out of the Midland’s landfills!

Also, HBA of Greater Columbia members are allowed to recycle old refrigerators through the Columbia ReStore. This will come in very handy when the SC Appliance Rebate Program begins on March 31.

- Cole Fisher [cfisher@habitatcsc.org], CSC ReStore

Newton: Give energy efficiency a boost - Editorial Columns - TheState.com

Green Building Council of Greater Columbia member Larry Newton wrote a guest column in the Tuesday, Feb. 16 issue of The State newspaper where he examines the difference between building a nuclear reactor and making existing homes more energy efficient, PACE Bonds and more. Click the link to read the article.

Newton: Give energy efficiency a boost - Editorial Columns - TheState.com

Gentlemen - Grab Your Caulking Guns

A featured article in today's State newspaper business section, “Plan encourages home upgrades” says that the Electrical Cooperatives of South Carolina want to tie the cost of retrofitting homes to monthly utility bills. If approved, the Co-ops expect to retrofit 225,000 homes over the next 10 years at a cost of $750 million. This represents about 1 in 10 of all the homes in South Carolina.

The proposed Legislative Bill provides a huge opportunity to put a lot of people back to work, and help transform the "leaky sieve" of our older housing stock into energy efficient homes.

Read the story in The State newspaper here

See the Bill that would make this happen

Macon Plant Turns Recycled Bottles Into Roofing

HBA and Green Building Council of Greater Columbia member Tom Hamilton of Freudenberg Texbond, LP has been telling us about his company's product for over a year now. Learn about this innovative roofing underlayment made from recycled plastics in this article:

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The Actual Value of Green Retrofits and Remodels

This article was submitted by GBCGC member David Watkins. The article is by By Steve Hargreaves, staff writer for Yahoo! Finance, on Thursday February 4, 2010, 12:39 pm EST

This is a problem that the green-home movement faces on the whole... despite being the right thing to do for personal and environmental reasons, spending money to make a home more energy efficient does not make financial sense in the short-term. Home appraisals and the value they assign to energy-efficiency (or lack thereof) is the main offender.

Click here to read this article