Sam Rashkin is the recipient of The 2012 Hanley Award for Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Housing.
With a small staff and shallow budget, Rashkin presided over the growth and technical development of Energy Star for Homes that to date has reached more than 1.3 million qualified homes.
While working for the California Energy Commission in the 1980s, Rashkin continued designing passive solar energy-efficient homes.
Rashkin completed a degree in architecture in 1974 from Syracuse University, where he "got the bug" for energy efficiency.
From his first day of work at Energy Star in 1994 (pictured with his father-in-law, Marvin Burstein) to his last day in 2011, Rashkin was a tireless advocate and educator.
Rashkin has written hundreds of technical papers and articles and last year published "Retooling the U. S. Housing Industry."
Rashkin has crisscrossed the nation pitching the advantages of Energy Star-qualified homes.
Energy Star projects like the one pictured proliferated during Rashkin's tenure.
