Magazine: Volume IV, Issue I: National Edition
Inside This Issue: Making Texas Green & Healthy, Lead in Water Prevention Tips, Three Questions For HUD Secretary Julián Castro, and more.
Press Release: Syracuse Mayor Signs Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Compact for the Greater Syracuse Area
Syracuse, NY – Today, Mayor Stephanie Miner and Onondaga County representatives signed a compact supporting efforts to make the Greater Syracuse area a leader in healthy homes. The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) Greater Syracuse is a comprehensive approach to align health, safety, lead hazard reduction, energy efficiency and weatherization interventions in low to moderate income homes.
Press Release: HUD Secretary Castro Releases Lead-Safe Homes, Lead-Free Kids Toolkit To Support Work to End Lead Poisoning
San Antonio, TX – The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative applauds U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julian Castro’s release of HUD’s Lead-Safe Homes, Lead-Free Kids Toolkit, and releases its National Strategy for Action to end childhood lead poisoning.
Press Release: Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Partnership Recognized by CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE AMERICA
Atlanta, GA – The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) and five key partners were recognized for collectively working to fulfill its 2012 Commitment to Action to the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America to increase access to healthy, safe and energy efficient homes in America’s low income communities.
In the News Post: Lifting the High Energy Burden in America’s Largest Cities
A review of 48 major U.S. metropolitan areas finds that low-income households devote up to three times as much income to energy costs as average households in the same city, … Continued
Post: Thank You to Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
A big thank you to Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO, which aired a smart and thought-provoking piece that focused on lead poisoning in America on April 17th, 2016. John … Continued
Press Release: Ruth Ann Norton of the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Receives BPI’s 2016 Tony Woods Award for Excellence in Advancing the Home Performance Industry
Austin, TX, April 5, 2016 – Today the Building Performance Institute, Inc. (BPI) honored Ruth Ann Norton of the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative by naming her the 2016 recipient of the Tony Woods Award for Excellence in Advancing the Home Performance Industry, at the ACI National Home Performance Conference in Austin, Texas.
Post: Blaming HUD Does Not Advance Prevention
Recently, there has been a renewed and important focus on lead poisoning and its toxic legacy that has undermined generations of American children. This heightened awareness has been brought on … Continued
Press Release: GHHI & BPI Introduce the Healthy Home Evaluator Credential
This spring the Building Performance Institute, Inc. (BPI) and Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) will introduce the Healthy Home Evaluator (HHE) credential to the nation’s home performance, weatherization and healthy housing workforce, with the goal of breaking the link between unhealthy housing and unhealthy families through home performance interventions.
In the News Post: Lead paint: Despite progress, hundreds of Maryland children still poisoned
Lead poisoning, once epidemic among Baltimore’s poor, is much less common than it used to be, with the number of new city cases dropping by 86 percent since 2002. But … Continued