The Chain of Eco-Homes program encourages and fosters the awareness and development of sustainable residential structures by showcasing the amazing array of possibilities for sustainable home design and construction. We are committed to developing and providing exciting and engaging education to make it easy for people to incorporate sustainable principles into their own homes. By introducing readers to best practices both old and new and touting how these benefit both pocketbooks and quality of life, we hope to inspire a wave of residential green building and retrofitting throughout the country. We make it easy for people to incorporate sustainable principles into their own homes – and we start by getting them excited about the possibilities.

The CoEH has three branches, each offering a different approach toward achieving the same goal.

Education Resources:

  • Provide unbiased, easily accessible, high quality information, education opportunities, and resources on our website

  • Educate homeowners with easy to understand information

  • Highlight the latest and greatest ideas and technologies alongside tried and true traditional approaches

  • Identify and showcase current best practices

  • Encourage sustainable retrofits to existing homes

Eco-home Registry:

  • Fosters a network of existing sustainable home owners to share their home, knowledge, and experiences

  • Provides examples and information on existing sustainable homes to new home-builders that informs and inspires the integration of sustainable features

  • Feeds into a network of experts who make themselves available to individuals who are constructing their own sustainable home

Construct Demonstration Homes in Disaster Areas and Elsewhere:

  • Demonstrate to residents of disaster areas the options available in their own home reconstruction

  • Emphasize affordable techniques and products that achieve high levels of energy efficiency

  • Encourages climate responsive design and construction specific to local landscape and weather

Offering a variety of approaches will expand the Association’s ability to reach a wider audience. Some people will be inspired by looking at projects online, others by communicating with homeowners, and still others by visiting and perhaps spending the night in an eco-home. While the methods may be varied, the desired outcomes are the same:​

  • Proliferate green home building locally and across the nation

  • Build a more robust community amongst all interested in green building including homeowners, builders, designers and producers of sustainable products

  • Encourage homeowners to think about and integrate energy efficiency into their homes

  • Encourage sustainable best practices in the construction industry to make them mainstream

  • Build awareness and demand for sustainable products, ideas, and techniques to residents of disaster areas and beyond

  • Improve the quality and longevity/durability of construction across the industry

  • Identify and debunk myths and misconceptions about green building

  • Publicize and encourage involvement in home accreditation programs like LEED, Energy Star, etc.

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