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Next Step Living recognized as 2011 Best of Boston’s Green Energy Consultant Mar 2, 2011
Boston, MA March 2, 2011: Next Step Living’s founder and CEO, Geoff Chapin, can help protect your home from winter’s chill. By pin-pointing areas of heat loss, he fashions solutions big and small to reduce your energy consumption. Many of his services, including the initial assessment, are free to Boston homeowners. Even better, sizable rebates are available to cover the bulk of his weatherization recommendations
Continue reading Next Step Living recognized as 2011 Best of Boston’s Green Energy ConsultantNext Step Living, Inc. Secures $2.6 Million first close on Series B financing Aug 16, 2010
Round led by local environmental entrepreneur; proceeds to be used for new hires to support multiple recently-won contracts
Boston, MA August 16, 2010: Next Step Living, Inc, a pioneering energy efficiency and renewable energy company based in Boston, Massachusetts, today announced a $2.6 million first close of their Series B financing round. The financing was led by local green entrepreneur John McQuillan, President & CEO of Triumvirate Environmental, who was joined by other new investors and returning Series A investors including Black Coral Capital and the Clean Energy Venture Group.
Continue reading Next Step Living, Inc. Secures $2.6 Million first close on Series B financingRenew Boston Program Announced by Mayor Menino Apr 28, 2010
On Earth Day, Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced that the City of Boston would be spending $2.8 million of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) funding to retrofit homes and small businesses across Boston. Mass Energy Consumer’s Alliance and Next Step Living were awarded $1.8 million of the EECBG funds in order to implement the residential portion of the Renew Boston Program.
Continue reading Renew Boston Program Announced by Mayor MeninoProgram on track to bring locals energy savings Dec 15, 2009
Boston Globe – A company that is part of a City of Boston weatherization program is now projecting that homes participating in the program are on track to initially save an average of $200 to $300 per household in annual energy savings.
The company is Next Step Living Inc., a privately held Boston firm that specializes in energy efficiency audits and energy upgrades for home owners.
Continue reading Program on track to bring locals energy savings‘Cash for Caulkers’ — Firms that do energy audits could benefit from new federal funds Dec 13, 2009
Boston Globe – On a chilly Tuesday morning last week, Steve Garwood was pointing an orange hand-held infrared camera at the walls of Ceci Mendez’s bedroom, showing her where the 50-year-old home was letting in cold air from the outside. In Mendez’s basement, Shawn Boilard was cutting sections of foam insulation to be fitted around the pipes connected to Mendez’s furnace.
By the time Garwood, Boilard, and a third team member from Next Step Living Inc. left the house around lunchtime, they’d found ways to reduce Mendez’s annual energy bills by about $260 per year – and significantly reduce the carbon “footprint’’ of her small Roslindale home.
Continue reading ‘Cash for Caulkers’ — Firms that do energy audits could benefit from new federal fundsNext Step Living helps weatherize 150 homes Jun 23, 2009
Boston Globe - Boston-based energy audit firm Next Step Living will help weatherize at least 150 homes under the city’s “Renew Boston Residential Energy Efficiency” initiative, a pilot program that started this week.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino is expected to announce details of the $200,000 program tomorrow, alongside Next Step Living head Geoff Chapin, at one of the homes that is being weatherized. The company analyzes a home’s energy consumption so that residents can then cut back and save money.
Continue reading Next Step Living helps weatherize 150 homesEconomic downturn hasn’t stopped start-ups Jun 17, 2009
Boston Globe – In South Boston, Geoff Chapin is shifting strategy at his new home-energy-efficiency company to deal with the tough economy. His business, Next Step Living, was originally aimed at homeowners and businesses; now it’s also reaching out to cities and towns that may be spending federal stimulus money.
Continue reading Economic downturn hasn’t stopped start-upsStimulus weatherization aid favors cold regions May 7, 2009
USA Today – A huge boost in federal funds to help low-income families weatherize their homes provides more than $3 on average in the coldest states for every $1 given to warm-weather states, an analysis of the aid program shows — even though exposure to extreme heat and cold are both health risks.
“People think weatherization is only for cold weather,” says James Miller, spokesman for the Florida Department of Community Affairs. “The heat is just as dangerous as the cold.” President Obama’s economic stimulus plan provides $5 billion for weatherization, more than 20 times the normal yearly budget
Continue reading Stimulus weatherization aid favors cold regionsFor small biz, is there an ‘us’ in stimulus? Apr 20, 2009
CNNMoney.com – Geoff Chapin, CEO of green remodeling company Next Step Living, is ready to do his part for our flailing economy. He believes that federal stimulus funds, which include $5 billion for weatherization projects, will trickle down to his Boston-based startup.
“We plan to hire up to 120 people in the next 18 months,” he told Fortune Small Business.
But small business advocates worry: Will entrepreneurs like Chapin really nab their share of lucrative government contracts? The White House estimates that nearly 75% of the funds will be committed by August 2010. To meet that tight deadline, agencies may hire bigger companies with a greater capacity to handle several different types of projects.
Continue reading For small biz, is there an ‘us’ in stimulus?Weatherization billions in stimulus questioned Feb 16, 2009
MSNBC – Critics of the $787 billion economic stimulus program are not really balking over caulking: They just don’t think pouring substantially more money into home weatherization will give a quick kick to the reeling economy.
There’s $5 billion for weatherizing modest-income homes over the next few years in the sweeping stimulus legislation that Congress sent to President Barack Obama.
Obama wants a sevenfold jump in the number of homes weatherized each year — from about 140,000 to 1 million households.
Continue reading Weatherization billions in stimulus questioned