Home Depot, Habitat for Humanity Build Green-Building Partnership
by Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA on 04.15.08
Photo credit: neubie
The Home Depot Foundation is giving Habitat for Humanity International a walloping $30 million for a national green-building program called Partners in Sustainable Building. The program, which aims to make at least 5,000 Habitat homes more energy efficient, will provide energy-efficient and sustainable building resources and funding for 17 percent of all single- and multi-family homes that Habitat builds in the next five years.
While Home Depot has used individual store donations and new-home builds to support Habitat, Partners in Sustainable Building is the first formal partnership between the two. ::New Mexico Business Weekly
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I think it's wonderful that Home depot are pushing this project ... no matter what we think big company are made up of people and people understand the challenges we are facing ...