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What is a Path to a Green Home?

To answer this question, I’ll need to provide some background. In 2005, my wife and I bought an old house (built in 1888) in New England – on the North Shore of Boston to be more specific. We immediately fell in love with the house’s character – something that just doesn’t exist in new homes (our opinion of course). We were fully aware that the house would need some maintenance and work, but being pretty handy with a hammer, that part didn’t scare us.

Fast forward to 2014. Through those first 9 years, we’d done a number of small projects in and around the house. Many of them were for maintenance reasons but some were to ‘improve’ some aspect of the house and to add to our comfort level. We were to a point where we were ready to make some major renovations so we created a master plan with a prioritized list of ‘projects’.

We had also become more conscious of our environment – our earth – and we wanted to do our part to help sustain the resources that we had. In the ideal world, we’d like to turn our house into a house that sustains itself – or at least requires a minimal amount of outside resources to provide maximum comfort.

We were embarking on our Path to a Green Home!

As we started to research various aspects of remodeling an old home to make it greener, we realized that there were a ton of resources out there, but they were (and still are) hard to find and disconnected.

In late 2018, we launched two products intended to guide homeowners along the path to home sustainability. The first product is the Home Sustainability Plan and is used by homeowners directly to map out their journey to a greener home. The second product is the Green Community Homeowner Campaign – a turnkey program that communities can roll-out to their residents with the focus of education and active engagement around improved sustainability.

Our Mission is to help cities, towns, and communities with their transition to being more sustainable by engaging their residential sector.

Green Communities are built of Green Homes.

By helping cities, towns, and communities with their residential outreach, education, and engagement, we can achieve dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

A little more about me.

My name is Dean Berg and aside from the fixation of a 130 year old house, I’m the proud father of a 18 year old daughter and a very supportive wife.

After getting an Engineering degree, I’ve spent most of my career working for various software and services companies and have had ample opportunity to travel the world. During my travels, I’m often amazed and how advanced some countries are in their adoption of greener homes.

For hobbies, I love real estate investment, working on house and garden projects, scuba diving in the frigid New English waters, playing squash and working out to stay somewhat fit.

Hopefully, this helps to explain the nature (no pun intended) Path to a Green Home. Please check out our other blog topics for more information. Or, if there are any questions that you have, please add them to the comments below (or contact me directly) and I will share my experiences and/or research.