Announcements and New Resources

Announcements


New Substantive Policy Statement for Earthbag Structures of Up to 750 sf

Coconino County Community Development has approved a substantive policy for earthbag buildings up to 750 square feet. This policy will allow earthbag structures, subject to certain limitations, to be permitted using the book Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques as a prescriptive method. Engineering will not be required so long as the methods described in the book are adhered to. See the full policy here.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Rainwater for Potable Use Presentation
​
​At the March Citizens Advisory Committee meeting, Project Intern Nichole Gregory gave a presentation on Coconino County's  proposed Rainwater Harvesting for Domestic Use Code and the educational booklet she is developing to accompany it. Click on the image to the right to see her presentation.
nicholes
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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.

NAR green
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Green Realtor Highlight

Tad Moore- NAR Green® Designee

Being a Flagstaff native, I am passionate about helping my clients buy and sell homes in the community I love. Since 2006, I have provided my clients with outstanding expertise and professionalism, and always go the extra-mile to ensure their real estate transaction is one they can look back on fondly. I am always striving to help this great community in any way I can. Sustainable living is a big part of that. From water harvesting, to energy efficiency, to even smart home devices that help homeowners maximize the efficiency of what's already in place, I pride myself in educating my clientson the most current options that can help them be more conscientious about the positive impact we all can make in helping our fragile environment!

tad
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
newsletter2

Sustainable Building Program Newsletter

The topic of the March/April newsletter was the 2019 Sustainable Building Award Recognition. Subscribe to the newsletter to learn more about sustainable building topics, current happenings in the Program, projects that are going through the certification process as well as announcements of events related to sustainable building.

Subscribe to our bimonthly newsletter

 

         

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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.
​
​
IMG_1005-2
____________________________________________________________________________________Intern Don Fisher________
Incentives2

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.

Julie Leid's presentation

Julie Leid presentation

Amanda Richardson's presentation

Amanda Richardson presentation
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Booklet cover small

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. 

Service Provider Directory small

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________