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I missed this a few days ago, but it’s definitely still worth covering: the towns of Brookhaven and Babylon on New York’s Long Island have made energy efficiency the law, according to the New York Times<\/a>. Both communities now require that all new houses built adhere to Energy Star homebuilding standards<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The new laws put both Brookhaven and Babylon in the vanguard of towns in New York State that have passed measures requiring a level of “green” home building. They are the first on Long Island to do so, but several other towns are considering identical or similar measures.<\/p>\n

“\u0093We’\u0092re encouraging every town to adopt this measure,”\u0094 said Neal Lewis, executive director of the Neighborhood Network<\/a>, a Farmingdale-based nonprofit energy conservation organization that is credited with publicizing the home building standard and encouraging towns to change building codes to require it.<\/p>\n

Energy Star homes will save homeowners money on energy costs by requiring, for example, certain types of insulation and installation techniques, and the use of energy-efficient appliances.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Builders aren’t convinced this is a great idea yet because it creates different building codes for different towns, and only a handful of inspectors are trained in the Energy Star standards. In response, the power authority is providing $25,000 grants to towns that adopt the standard, and Brookhaven and Babylon have agreed to a three-part phasing in of the new requirement. Builders apparently have a reason to be concerned: another town, Southampton, adopted a similar measure, but it will only apply to moderately-priced homes — McMansions get a pass… grrr…<\/p>\n

New homes will certainly be built (builders estimate 2,000 in the next year just in Brookhaven and Babylon), so this is a good effort to use energy more efficiently (and to prevent blackouts, a major motivator for the law). Of course, we get into an issue that I took a drubbing for on Treehugger<\/a> some time back — does this merely give a green tinge to suburban sprawl? I look forward to your responses. Also, these towns are quite near the home of friend of sustainablog Kenny Luna<\/a> — Kenny, got any inside information? We already know, of course, that many schoolchildren in the area already have CFLs ready for installation…<\/p>\n

Via SustainableBusiness.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Categories: energystar<\/a>, houses<\/a>, building<\/a>, green<\/a>, efficient<\/a>, energy<\/a>, longisland<\/a>, newyork<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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