Energy/Water Conservation/Solar

6 cheap or no-cost energy efficiency fixes for your NYC co-op or condo building

Most co-op and condo buildings have to meet New York City’s new energy emission requirements and make the switch from…

12 months ago

How to Prepare Your Community’s Landscape for The Heat of Summer

As a community association board member, you are tasked with ensuring your community is a pleasant place for its residents.…

12 months ago

How a downtown Toronto condo defied the odds to save energy and money (ON)

From the outside, the French Quarter condos look like Hausmanian buildings from Paris that have been teleported from the 19th…

12 months ago

Clean Condo Life: Getting Heat Pumps For Buildings Without A/C

As a condo dweller in a building constructed without the foresight of central air conditioning, I’ve been feeling the effects…

12 months ago

Clean Condo Life: Adapting Existing Buildings To A Changing Climate

Multi-unit residential buildings (infelicitously acronymed as MURBs), in the forms of rental, condo, and public housing buildings, are where the…

12 months ago

How Will Chicago’s Decarbonization Strategy Affect Condominiums? (IL)

In the 21st century, global climate change is an increasingly important issue that concerns individuals, businesses, and governments. To help…

12 months ago

HOAs prevent the proliferation of home solar

She was asking because her Home Owners Association (HOA) only allows solar on the rear side of houses, which for…

12 months ago

Sarpy County homeowners fighting subdivision over solar panels (NE)

The neighborhood doesn’t have an elected HOA yet, so Liberty land-enforces covenants -- and above-ground pools, sheds and solar panels…

12 months ago

A Crackdown in Sin City (NV)

For decades now science has shown that climate change is causing the Colorado River’s gap between supply and demand to…

1 year ago

NYC co-op owners, covering over 800K apartments, rebel against massive climate law costing millions

Middle-class co-op and condo building owners covering 800,000-plus apartments are rebelling against a massive city climate mandate — a green…

1 year ago