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July 12, 2006
Programs starting to seek out community associations
This week I was approached by one governement agency and ran across another that was targeting community associations as focal points of their efforts. This is somewhat new and is an acknowledgement that community associations touch a rather large part of our population and are increasing in importance.
The first is the "ENERGY STAR® Change a Light, Change the World” program run by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). They want to encourage people to change light bulbs to those with the Energy Star® label in order to save on electricity consumption and reduce emissions from power plants. A good cause, a simple request. It's worth re-printing in your newsletters and even making a project out of it yourself. The details can be found at:
http://www.communityassociations.net/articles/energy_star.html
The second one I ran across in a nes story when an association was awarded it "Firewise" certification. "U.S Firewise Communities/USA" is a program to help those communities who are in areas where wildfires are possible. The program undertakes a risk assessment and works with the community towar a set of goals to improve their communities ability to reduce the risks of having a fire seep through them. This include a variety of projects. Gor information about the program, visit their web site: http://firewise.org/usa/about.htm and to see how one community gained their accreditation, see the article. If the article is gone, here's another link about them: http://firewise.org/usa/kohls_ranch.htm
Posted by joewest at July 12, 2006 11:53 PM