{"id":18289,"date":"2013-11-06T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T09:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=b66c9ae1ce42acd3b4b7e399f17ca4d8"},"modified":"2013-11-06T09:45:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T09:45:27","slug":"will-the-energy-star-homes-program-survive-version-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/will-the-energy-star-homes-program-survive-version-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Energy Star Homes Program Survive Version 3?"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Sam Rashkin predicted a 50% builder attrition rate &mdash; but the losses appear to be even worse        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/will-energy-star-homes-program-survive-version-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/energy-star-new-home-program-dying-energy-vanguard.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Energy Star new homes program was popular - until Version 3\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Back in 2009, I attended a webinar given by Sam Rashkin, head of the <span>Energy Star<\/span><span>Labeling system sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy for labeling the most energy-efficient products on the market; applies to a wide range of products, from computers and office equipment to refrigerators and air conditioners.<\/span> new homes program at the time. (He has since left the EPA for the <span>DOE<\/span><span>United States Department of Energy.<\/span>.) He explained the changes coming in the program as they prepared for the transition from what we now call Version 2 to the new Version 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3448,151,3442],"class_list":["post-18289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-energy-efficiency-program","tag-energy-star","tag-new-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}