It is heating up!

The Green Loans program approaches!  Here is an article lifted from the ABC  on the Green Loans Program  as background

RMIT's Centre for Design (CfD) are developing the Home Sustainability Assessment assessment tool.Professor Alan Pears has been working with RMIT on this project. Dr. Ralph Horne, the Director of RMIT (CfD) is responsible for this project and has been involved with the Green Loans Program for some time. 

Now here's a predicament. You're worried that your home's insulation isn't up to scratch and that your wonky air-conditioner is guzzling too much electricity. Plus, you really want to do your part for global warming by getting solar panels on your roof. Problem is: you don't have the money to make the changes. Well, fear not. Even as we speak, Environment Minister Peter Garrett is training up a posse of assessors to visit your home and come up with a shopping list of energy-wise improvements. As for the dosh, the federal government will find you a loan of up to $10,000 at bargain basement rates. Welcome to the world of Green Loans, part of the government's strategy to think global and act local on climate change. How much appetite is there in Australia for green debt? And what's to stop me using the money to get a new telly? Besides, since when is government in the business of organising finance.

Dr Horne talks with ABC's Peter Mares http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/current/audioonly/nit_20090424_1830.mp3