Announcements and New Resources

Incentives for Green Realtor Certification

The Sustainable Building Program recently began an initiative to promote higher valuation of high performance and sustainable buildings within the local real estate market. We have been hearing from some contractors who are certifying their projects through the Program that the added investment in building high performance homes is not being reflected in appraisal values. One of the goals of the initiative is to increase the number of local real estate professionals that have green designation. If you are a realtor, consider green designation! Click here to see our incentives for green designation. Find more information on the National Association of Realtors Green Designation and EcoBroker certification on their websites.

New Resource- List of Books on Sustainable Building Topics at the Library

Our Coconino Community College Special Project intern, Don Fisher, recently completed an Excel spreadsheet listing 254 books on sustainable building topics that are available at the Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library. As it is in spreadsheet format, the entries can be filtered by topic, name, date of publication, author and location. This can be done by clicking the dropdown menu on the heading and choosing the desired category or selection.

The spreadsheet can be found here.

Update to the Incentives Directory

One of our new Coconino Community College Special Project interns, Camille Clark, has completed the latest revision of the Sustainable Building Program's "Incentives for Sustainable Building" directory! This directory includes tax credits and rebates for renewable energy systems, energy efficiency measures and water conservation features for both new construction and retrofits, residential and commercial. It also lists mortgage products, programs for no interest loans for home maintenance and more. You can find the updated directory here.

Rainwater Harvesting Panel

On September 28th, the Coconino Plateau Watershed Partnership hosted a well-attended rainwater harvesting discussion panel as part of the Flagstaff Festival of Science. The discussion included design, installation and maintenance aspects of rainwater harvesting systems for landscaping and potable use.

Presentations included those by:

Julie Lied- A local homeowner who has 10,000 gallons of storage for collecting rainwater and treating it for their families domestic water needs.
Amanda Richardson of the City of Flagstaff Stormwater section provided a brief overview of Low Impact Development methods used locally.

You can view their presentations using the links at the right.

New Sustainable Development Educational Booklet for the Residential Checklist

Check out the new draft Sustainable Development Booklet for the Residential Construction Checklist, a comprehensive guide to sustainable development in Northern Arizona!

The Booklet, written and designed by intern Nathan Hays, details the components of sustainable building listed in the checklist, explaining their relevance to sustainability, how they are accomplished and how points are assigned to those features for projects that are being certified through the Sustainable Building Program.

Sustainable Building Service Provider Directory

We recently began an update of the Sustainable Building Program's Resource Directory. The original directory has been broken into two parts: 1) a directory of sustainable building service providers called the "Sustainable Building Service Provider Directory," and 2) a directory of sustainable building products titled, you guessed it!, the "Sustainable Building Products Directory."

Find a draft of the updated Sustainable Building Service Provider Directory here.
The creation of a Sustainable Building Products Directory is a future project.

Announcements and New Resources

Announcements

Julie Leid's presentation

Amanda Richardson's presentation

New Resources