Ain't No Stopping Us Now, We're On the Move!

The Denver Post reported today that Fort Collins reduced it's green House gas emissions by 11 percent in the last five years.  I have to admit it feels pretty good right now to be the leading Home Performance Contractor in the Leading Residential Efficiency Program in the country.  This just goes to show that when you design a program based on building science and offer people practical solutions along with outcome based incentives and rebates, YOU GET RESULTS!  This is what we have believed all along.  When you deliver services that are within reach of the middle-class you get huge gains because the services are being widely used across the community.  I love to see solar panels on homes and businesses just as much as the next guy, but one set of solar panels on one roof in a sea of inefficient homes won't make much of a difference relative to the big picture.  And I have to say we owe much of this success to four groups of people, the Voters in Fort Collins who asked their utility for a Residential Efficiency Program, the people at the Utility who designed a results driven program with high accountability, the homeowners who took a leap of faith and signed up for a home energy audit, and last but definitely not least, the crews who spent the better part of the summer in 125 degree attics getting the work done.