Here are the Top Seven things a mortgage company can do, on their dime, to reduce your global ecological footprint and reduce your home’s carbon emissions:

1.  Free rating or assessment of how green your home is and how it can be improved. Examples of rating systems include California’s Build It Green, Built Green of Colorado and Washington, and the residential LEED certification. See if your local Green Building Program has a rating system.

2.   Provide additional incentives or loan discounts for green home improvement.

3.   Purchase carbon-offsets on your behalf, through CarbonFund, The Institute of Ecosystem Studies, TerraPass, or other organization.

4.   Plant trees. Lots of them.

5.   Contribute part of profits to environmental or real estate reform

6.   Help you monitor your global ecological footprint. You may need a conversion calculator.

7.   Take the pledge lead by example by being a sustainable, carbon-neutral business.

Thanks to Tomek Rondio of MortgageGreen for his input for this post.

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