Eco-Living Fund Grant

The Eco-Living Fund supports efforts to steer the daily life habits of people away from environmentally unsustainable practices and toward zero-footprint or net-positive impact on the natural world. Funded projects:

1. Are designed not simply to improve the environmental-friendliness or sustainability of a particular building or facility but rather to permanently change many, many buildings' performance and/or people's daily life habits to be better for the planet
2. Have specific, concrete actions which have quantifiable results of people living and/or buildings performing more sustainably
3. Are designed, tracked, documented, and reported in ways that they can be showcased to serve as positive change models for other organizations and communities
4. Result in people, businesses or institutions saving money (bonus which is particularly encouraged though not required) 

Successful proposals will include all of the first three (3) of the above characteristics, not just one or two of them.

Among the pool of applications received, winners will be those that have the greatest bang-for-the-buck: the greatest number of people permanently changing their daily life habits, and/or the greatest number of buildings getting their consumption of resources reduced, per grant dollar. Preference will be given to those projects that have quantifiable results, that is, results that can be numerically verified and measured.