Housing

Planned and built by a group called Postgreen, the 100k House project started as a mission to prove that a LEED Platinum house could be built for under $100,000 in hard construction costs. Rather than focusing on unnecessary luxuries, the 100k House has sustained a high level of quality, design, energy efficiency, health and sustainability throughout the entire project.

Rather than re-building as fast as possible after a massive two-mile-wide tornado destroyed everything in the area, the town of Greensburg, Kansas is re-building with a completely sustainable recovery plan. To go along with the town's new slogan of "Better, Stronger, Greener!" all new structures are to be built by LEED Platinum standards, streets and walkways are to be planned better for pedestrians with over 300 low-energy street-lamps and to turn around the wind that wrecked the town, wind turbines will be placed throughout.

The Housing Partnership, an award-winning peer-to-peer network of the nation's top performing nonprofit development organizations, is stabilizing the skyrocketing cost of property insurance for nonprofit affordable housing providers. By pooling risk, capital and negotiating a custom program with national insurance carriers, the Housing Partnership is able to offer competitive insurance rates through an alternative of non-private sector financial collaboration.