Metro Denver Green
Homes Tour
Congratulations on this year's 25th Annual
Tour of Solar and Sustainable Homes:
On Saturday October 5, over a hundred attended our 25th annual tour event and witnessed a wide range of new and existing homes with solar and green sustainable features throughout. Tour participants also got to meet homeowners and builders who are passionate about lowering energy costs, saving energy, using less fossil fuel and challenging climate change.
Media and Photos
See an excellent article in Saturday’s Denver Post by Mark Samuleson here.
Denver Post: "2 dreams come true with passive solar deisgn on view in today's Green Homes Tour"
Board Members John Avenson and JoAnn Herrick
getting ready for our Channel 7 Interview of
John to feature the 2019 Solar Tour.
Some Photos of the
2019 Tour
Tour of Solar and
Sustainable Homes
Saturday, October 5th, 2019
Begins at the
American Mountaineering Center
710 10th Street,
Golden, CO 80401
TOUR: 9am–4pm
$10 per person.
A self-guided tour of your sustainable community!
Send your questions to:
for more info.
See Videos of some 2019 Homes
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First Time on Western Slope: Chaffee County Solar Home Tour:
Residents toured select homes in Salida where homeowners have installed solar energy systems and made other improvements to make their homes more sustainable. Homeowners, volunteers and representatives from solar installers Peak Solar Designs, Renewable Energy Outfitters and Colorado Solar Energy were available to explain smart “green’’ home features.
The tour will began at the Salida Farmer’s Market, at Alpine Park, on September 14. Tour sponsor New Energy Colorado hosted a booth featuring a variety of energy efficiency measures that homeowners can install at little or no cost. Check out our Press Release here:
Denver Metro Home Tour info continues here:
The Denver Metro Green Homes Tour has been in the Denver area for twenty-five years, with similar events in all fifty other states. This year’s self-guided tour coincides with the National Tour of Solar Homes and features homes that demonstrate a wide range of strategies from remodeling options to full-on passive solar design to an entire community focused on clean, efficient energy. Spend an hour or a full day exploring both new homes and homes that have a history of performance in Arvada, Denver, Golden & foothills, Littleton, and Westminster.
Nearly every day we read or hear about new and evolving technologies that can help us save money in our homes while being environmentally responsible. Options are plentiful and questions inevitably arise. What is right for me and my home? Can I do this now or do I have to plan for it? Is it cheap and easy or more involved? Do I have to change my lifestyle? Our Metro Denver Green Homes Tour lets you speak directly with proud efficient homeowners, see and experience what they have done, and get all your questions answered without spin or pressure, so you gain the real-world facts, from the source, to make decisions that are best for you today and tomorrow.
The Metro Denver Green Homes Tour is an event organized by New Energy Colorado, a 501c3 non-profit corporation, and your admission cost is tax deductible. See you on the Tour!
Golden Earth Days, Now New Energy Colorado increased community awareness of renewable energy and transportation options and encouraged active sustainability through the home tour. The annual tour is part of the National Solar Tour coordinated nationally by the nonprofit American Solar Energy Society in collaboration with dozens of outstanding partner organizations. It takes place annually during the first Saturday in October in conjunction with National Energy Awareness Month.
Golden Earth Days won the Sustainability Award for Community Group for the City of Golden in 2014.
Last year in recognition of shared goals and in the interest of combining resources, Golden Earth Days merged with a project working on solar education to create New Energy Colorado.
