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Next Step Living recognized as 2011 Best of Boston’s Green Energy Consultant

nextstepliving — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:13:55 +0000

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 Continue reading Next Step Living recognized as 2011 Best of Boston’s Green Energy Consultant

NSL in Local Community News

nextstepliving — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:05:56 +0000

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Next Step Living, Inc. Secures $2.6 Million first close on Series B financing

nextstepliving — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:54:56 +0000

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.

Renew Boston Program Announced by Mayor Menino

nextstepliving — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:23:23 +0000

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 Continue reading Renew Boston Program Announced by Mayor Menino

EnergySavvy and NSL on the front page of TechCrunch

nextstepliving — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:59:47 +0000

Today we launched our interactive home energy calculator, powered by EnergySavvy, a Seattle-based start-up. EnergySavvy approached us and asked if we would like to test drive their new online energy assessment tool, and we were happy to oblige. Their tool is easy, interactive, and highly accurate compared to most energy calculators you might find out there. TechCrunch, one of the largest technology blogs in the US, agrees with us and wrote a front-page post about EnergySavvy’s pioneering application and Next Step Living’s involvement as their first customer.

We would love for you to test out this new tool (link above) and send us any feed back or recommendations you might have. It only takes 2-3 minutes and there are pictures involved. Enjoy!

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Welcome to the Next Step Living Blog!

nextstepliving — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:43:51 +0000

If you’re reading this blog you’re either a concerned homeowner striving to reduce your energy consumption, a family looking for ways to save money, an individual interested in getting on the path towards a green job, a corporate employee interested in finding out how your company can make an impact, a local, state or national government leader looking at implementing new policy in home energy efficiency, a community group looking for support around climate action plans and neighborhood programs, or just a global citizen trying to stay on top of the latest ways to lower your carbon footprint.

No matter who you are, if you are taking even a moment out of your day to ready this, you are an active participant in the fight against climate change.

As a company committed to increasing home energy efficiency on a mass scale, the scope of this blog will be vast. You’ll read about our analysis of recent policy developments, accolades of people, companies and organizations who we think are doing the right things to push energy efficiency forward, and industry trends that either need to be applauded or those that need to be probed. You’ll also keep abreast of some of our exciting news – new cities and towns that sign up for residential energy efficiency programs, companies that make a true commitment to bringing our services to their employee base, expansions to our offering and events that we are supporting or participating in.

We encourage this to not only be a source of information, inspiration and news for you but also a place for constructive discussions, open interactions, mutual education and furthering awareness of how we each have the ability to lower our carbon emissions and lead healthier lives that have less negative impacts on the world around us.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Program on track to bring locals energy savings

nextstepliving — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:04:54 +0000

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 Continue reading Program on track to bring locals energy savings

‘Cash for Caulkers’ — Firms that do energy audits could benefit from new federal funds

nextstepliving — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:24:40 +0000

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.

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Next Step Living helps weatherize 150 homes

nextstepliving — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:43:19 +0000

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.

Economic downturn hasn’t stopped start-ups

nextstepliving — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:39:50 +0000

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. Related posts: Renew Boston Program Continue reading Economic downturn hasn’t stopped start-ups