Sierra Club Green Home
Sierra Club Green Home is a environmental website affiliated with Sierra Club. Launched in 2009, the Sierra Club Green Home website is dedicated to providing consumers who are interested in living green with reliable and up-to-date information such as contact information with green providers in their neighborhoods, video tutorials, educational articles, and an accurate carbon dioxide calculator.
History
Recently, Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope set out to “green” his home and discovered a problem: even for him, this wasn’t so simple. Plenty of information was available, but widely disparate and sometimes conflicting sources made things confusing. When meeting with some top donors, the idea of Sierra Club launching a special website sierraclubgreenhome.com to address this problem seemed like a good solution.
Sierra Club Green Home (SCGH) was developed with a simple mission in mind: to help Americans make their homes more energy efficient, environmentally sustainable and healthy. They do not sell products or services. Instead, they educate consumers on how to improve their home health and connect them with Providers that can help them achieve their goals. They screening process ensures that all Providers listed on our site can help you create a greener, healthier home by reducing your use of energy, your use of non-renewable natural resources, and the presence of toxins and chemicals in your home.
While their education contains some fairly sophisticated content, SCGH focuses primarily on “non-green” and “newly-green” citizens. Research indicates the vast majority of Americans are not taking even simple steps to reduce their impact — things like installing CFLs, turning off the water when brushing teeth, recycling cans, bottles and newspapers, or looking for organic produce options. They believe this is where SCGH can have the greatest benefit, by influencing people to take those simple first steps to practice environmental responsibility at home. And of course, SCGH offers vast amounts of education and products for the already-green who are looking to do even more.
All content found on their site is original unless otherwise noted. The education is developed by a dedicated writing staff with tremendous experience and credentials in all things green. Sierra Club Green Home tries to deliver an honest, balanced perspective and will continue to update their articles as new issues and solutions arise.
Features
SierraClubGreenHome.com has many unique features dedicated to providing homeowners with relevant and reliable green information to "greenify" their homes, and educating consumers on the steps to become environmentally friendly. Following are some of the features on the website:
- CO2 Calculator: Provides an accurate measurement of the carbon dioxide footprint in your home
- Solar Savings Calculator: Calculates how much a solar electric system in your home would cost
- Provider Database
- Home Health Quiz
- Educational Content: Green home articles, a green glossary, a video library, and much more
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