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Minnesota Model for the Home Star Program Runs Out of Funds

January 3rd, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer

The trial run for "Cash for Caulkers" is a big hit. Another of the the green-jobs-and-carbon-footprint-reduction projects funded by the Obama Administration Recovery Act funds has really caught on big time. The first is Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing to make solar essentially free (Joe Biden to Solar Power the USA With PACE Berkeley First Municipal Financing) with just one county's result: Rooftop Solar = 4% of Sonoma County's Power


How Obama's Home Star "Cash for Caulkers" Program Could Green Up America's Homes

January 3rd, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer

The Obama administration is betting its new Home Star "Cash for Caulkers" program that it’s the one with the greenest bang for the buck. They'll pay you up to half the cost to retrofit that gas-guzzling house of yours for up to $4,000 and in the process put a quarter of a million unemployed construction workers back to work lowering your energy costs and carbon footprint



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