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Green Built Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing sustainability in the built environment through community education, measurable standards and regional action in Western North Carolina and beyond since 2001.
Our Vision
We’re connected to each other through the places we call home, but climate change is affecting the areas we live and love. It takes all of us to build the future we want, and our nonprofit aims to model how a community can work together to create sustainable solutions. Together, we can make a healthy, hopeful, clean-energy future a reality.
News + Events
Green Built Alliance is welcoming fellow nonprofits and local schools to apply for funding support to complete clean-energy projects in 2020 through its Appalachian Offsets program. Appalachian Offsets funds renewable-energy projects and energy-efficiency upgrades in Western North Carolina schools, nonprofits and low-income housing by pooling money contributed by local businesses...
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In tandem with updates to incorporate regenerative design principles into our statewide Green Built Homes certification program, Green Built Alliance hosted a monthly series of in-depth, inspirational workshops in late 2019. We are now pleased to be able to share video excerpts from each of the workshops in the series,...
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Our Members
Our diverse group of members represent a wide variety of green-building focus areas and other sustainability specialties. We invite you to explore our membership and the great work they are doing in advancing green building and sustainability in our community.
Our Impact
285,000
DIRECTORIES DISTRIBUTED
12,000
PEOPLE EDUCATED ON GREEN BUILDING
$1,249,172
ENERGY BILL SAVINGS ANNUALLY
4795.05
METRIC TONS OF CO2 SAVINGS ANNUALLY
103,216,525
GALLONS OF WATER SAVINGS ANNUALLY
