Sunday, October 30, 2011

Yellow Springs Green Home Tour

Yellow Springs Green Home Tour

Saturday, November 5
2-4 p.m.

Sponsored by Yellow Springs Home Inc.

Come and see what your friends and neighbors are doing to reduce their energy costs, reduce their carbon footprint and live in an environmentally responsible manner. Get ideas on what you can do.

Eight homes in the Yellow Springs area will be open for inspection that demonstrate active solar, solar panels and a wind turbine for generating electricity, straw bale homes and a passive solar home. Brochures of the tour, containing a map, can be obtained by calling Yellow Springs Home, Inc. at 767-2790.

Yellow Springs Home, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose mission is to strengthen community and diversity in Yellow Springs and Miami Township by providing permanently affordable and sustainable housing through the Community Land Trust model. Home, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 to carry out these goals. Home, Inc. is a certified Community Housing Development Organization by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency.

Yellow Springs Home, Inc.’s purpose is to build and acquire affordable housing for persons who are poorly served by the prevailing housing market. Home, Inc. is also a member of the Ohio Community Development Corporation Association and the National Community Land Trust Network.

Yellow Springs Home, Inc.
Box 503
Yellow Springs, OH 45387
937.767.2790
www.yshome.org