When Selling Your Home Can Help Save the Climate
Thinking of selling your home? We want to help you make it greener, healthier, and more valuable first.
Most homeowners don’t have the time, money, or appetite for a major retrofit while living in their house. That’s where timing, financing, and new technology come together to change the game — at the time of sale, when money changes hands and their motivation is high.
Our system could make a deep retrofit of almost any home practical, affordable, and more sellable.
It's called the Green Legacy Fund and in our proposal for Minnesota, we ensure that 40% of benefits flow to environmental justice communities, and help us achieve Minnesota’s carbon-reduction targets at the same time. With pilot support, it could become a model for healthier homes, fair access, and a smarter, climate driven housing market.
The secret? Keep the power in the homeowner's hands.
1) Build a Home Profile
Take photos and enter data by category (attic, walls, windows, HVAC, basement, bills). Let homeowners build their own records — their home, their way.
2) Get a Smart Retrofit Plan
AI reviews their inputs, highlights issues, and estimates savings & carbon cuts.
3) Save Their Information Locally
Save all the inputs and results in project bundle to their device (e.g., .ghc) plus a PDF report. That way the data stays with them — not shared with anyone.
4) Empower Action on Their Terms
Use the report to shop bids, claim rebates, or apply for financing (e.g., Green Legacy Fund). Let them choose the timing, contractors, and upgrades themselves.
