Jonathan Rose has created an informational PowerPoint presentation on just about everything relating to green building. He whips out his laptop to show one of his favorite slides highlighting an energy usage computer modeling program offered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program. Every month, an on-site manager plugs in the property’s energy costs and, voila, can immediately see how the project’s energy footprint stacks up against its regional competitors. 
“You can build a green building, but if you are not operating it green, you haven’t achieved your
goals,” Rose says.
For the actual build-out of a project, the firm uses two certification systems: the popular U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED guidelines and Enterprise’s Green Communities criteria. In fact, Rose helped create Enterprise’s green standards, designed to provide affordable housing developers with a cost-effective standard for creating healthy and energy-efficient homes.
“He was the force behind Enterprise devoting itself now to doing all affordable housing as green housing,” says Bart Harvey, a trustee and former chairman and CEO of Enterprise Community Partners. “The Green Communities initiative really came out of Jonathan’s urging, experience, and a terrific slideshow he put together showing the sense in it.” No doubt, it was a memorable PowerPoint.
