word buzzword these days is “green Everything Must Go.” The dictionary defines the green versus the Environment:

G Reen “ – (made with little damage to the environment, renewable resources or policies to promote the protection of our environment. )

associations, each individual can have a positive impact on our environment, and in some cases we can save money by using green. Imagine a community support for clean, efficient, and a manager for its environmental and health .

What we believe

communities of Green, we have examined the cost of making and keeping us in green. It takes work commitment from the board and community members to a green community programs. All efforts have been focused on Green Communities philosophy can make a difference in your community not only, but also to make the world around you.

The management of the association of the community must be committed to “Sustainable Green Communities” and already has a system of paperless technology that has the need for paper forms of communication developed more traditional reduced for the electronic version. In the past, property managers drawers drawers of files with folder after folder of information that is important.

Today, almost all of this information in digital form and more binders are stored full of information on the hard drive of a computer are stored. What does this mean for the green community mean? That is, they only have enormous amounts of paper, ink, and the energy of the copier be used to to print the document saved. In other words, every step we take to save the environment and use less energy to contribute to a community environment, it all adds up.

Green Board meetings An example would be that the Council will reduce the number of labels in creating packages for board meetings. In some cases, which had 50 to 100 pages can now be as little as 8 pages. The rest should be available electronically and Board has to show it before the meeting or the manager as their digital information. This method saves time, money, and with a green community. In many cases, a document created and tested by several people, but was never published.

Did you know: If you are not a ton of paper you save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 3 cubic meters of landfill space, 4,000 kilowatts of energy, 7000 gallons of water and 60 pounds of air pollutants.

It is possible, meetings by to organize phone or email, but you have the availability of the members and compliance with state laws on electronic meetings. By electronic meetings, you can use the club time, money and volunteer board members more time with their families.

paperless technology can be coupled with cutting-edge property management software of a community to be environmentally friendly. A Council member can quickly review the financial health act violations and restrictions on all major areas of the administration of the association of the computer without ever printing a piece of paper should be. In fact, board members access more digital information than ever before. In this case, the information, more green information.

Green Energy Community and recycling plan reduction

A municipality has the ability to assess and monitor a number should questions positive impact from the adoption of a green philosophy.

Associations

responsible for providing waste management companies to that select a recycling plan. For years, almost all waste management company was recycling techniques. Use it as a important part of the selection of a contractor and work to use with the members of your community’s recycling programs.

Did You Know? Recycling one ton of plastic bottles saves 318 gallons gasoline, or enough energy to have an refrigerator run for a month.

energy audit

Conduct an energy audit of your club. It is very easy to do. The review of energy costs, you can see, the consumption and consumer history . Check out the possibilities of developing an energy concept for the club use encourages members to renewable energies or the stock of energy consumption and develop a plan to reduce energy. Invest in your community renewable energy sources. If the demand for renewable energies , the energy moves to meet the demand. The association of the Board of Directors has the ability to ecological communities and working with members must make use of this option.

Your management company should the supplier of power in the communities of regulated and deregulated the best price available and work with the utilities that environmental concerns are to work. They should work with them to an energy audit in areas where we can save money and energy surveys to identify .

Each community is different and some are more energy intensive than others, some points that look green in the production of your community

lights out:.. Are they not, if solar energy would be? how much it cost to change solar power, this should help in the event of extended power failure, you are using energy saving light bulbs

Interior Lighting:.? Are they turned off when not in use Consider? . switch switch or timer movement are you with energy saving lamps

Did you know Each bulb you replace with a compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) bulb can save up to 56 watts per hour

Electronic Equipment?.: Electronics have typically consume a power saving mode, but even with this mode is still current. just make sure that the electronics off when not taken in use.

Did You Know? monitors typically use about 80% of the energy that uses a computer, you can use it to calculate how much energy you by turning off the monitor. For example, a computer with 200 watts to 160 watts per hour to save the Monitor off

pool. used the timer in the heated pool and whirlpool, or they are heated all year round Fires energy efficient

Community Center? How often changing HVAC filters How old is the system? fan motors and compressors old system were built was during the energy consumption are not eliminated from concern. device, if not turned in use?

Did You Know? If you, your thermostat in winter or summer, the CO2 emissions of £ 500 per year be reduced for each degree

Tennis. are Lights are energy efficiency, could they be powered by solar energy

Indoor leisure facilities:? Is there a HVAC system is it saves energy if it is to be changed to be more efficient the system is regularly maintained Fires energy efficient

Gates?? electric doors are usually easy to solar energy and not to convert very expensive . In the case of power cuts in the long run, solar power electric fences be very useful

Toilet Park. is energy efficient water heater Fires energy-efficient efficient use of water or can it be reduced

They were? only some of the steps that a community can take green to a philosophy of community. communities must be aware of their energy consumption, recycling opportunities, and what measures they take to be proactive in creating green communities can.

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