The Carolina Classic Home & Garden Show is the Midlands largest show for consumers to see the latest in home building, home improvement, landscaping and more! A special focus this year has been placed on energy efficency.
Members of the Green Building Council of Greater Columbia will be at the show throughout the weekend to give seminars on the value of going green and to answer your questions.
Members will be in a booth in the Moore Building with the SC Energy Office. The SCEO will be there to talk about the forthcoming SC Appliance Rebate program, and our members will be there to answer your green building and remodeling questions.
If you don't catch us in the booth, we will have seminars each day of the show. Join chairman Bill Wichlei, CGP for "Be Green to $ave Green" on Friday at 4:00 p.m., Saturday at 1:00 p.m. and Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
The USGBC Columbia Chapter will also be at the show for a joint meeting with our council. The public is invited to attend our joint seminar "The Value of Going Green" on Friday at Noon. (Free with paid admission to the show.)
Click here for more information on the Home & Garden Show, and we hope to see you there!
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
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
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
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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
Newton: Give energy efficiency a boost - Editorial Columns - TheState.com
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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
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
Monday, February 8, 2010
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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