Our Mission and Goals

Green Chips is encouraging a comprehensive effort to make Southern Nevada a nationwide leader in environmental sustainability. Our goals include:

• Conservation. We will help finance programs to reduce energy and water usage, improve efficiency, encourage recycling, and to more effectively manage use of limited natural resources.
  
  
• Education. We will promote programs to help educate businesses, residents and visitors about energy efficiency, resource conservation, and reducing carbon emissions.
  
  
• Carbon Reduction. We are building partnerships to reduce the carbon footprint of our region and to achieve our ultimate goal of making Southern Nevada a nationwide model of carbon neutrality.
  
  
• Job Creation. We will encourage training and employment programs to create green jobs that help improve conservation and efficiency throughout the region.

Initial Green Chips Projects

In August 2009, Green Chips launched our first community efforts with small scale demonstration initiatives. Projects include a solar energy retrofit and energy audit at The Shade Tree, a local shelter providing essential services to our community, and a partnership to provide comprehensive energy audits to eligible low-income households in Southern Nevada. Several other partnerships are being considered to encourage energy efficient construction and retrofits in communities throughout the region.

In the future, Green Chips also plans to aggregate resources to provide low-interest loans to homeowners and businesses for qualifying energy efficiency, resource preservation, and carbon reduction projects. After rebates and tax credits have been utilized, Green Chips is seeking to make loans available to bridge the financing gap to ensure that renewable energy and conservation projects are affordable.

In 2010, we are going to be sponsoring our first regional conferences on conserving energy in Southern Nevada and determining the next steps needed to ensure environmental sustainability in the region... sign up for our updates to receive more information as it becomes available!

You can also learn more about specific initiatives as the press releases and FAQs are posted in the NEWS section.