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Senate bill aims to appraise value of home efficiency
Say you were getting ready to put your home on the market and wanted to make a quick investment to boost the selling price. Would you be better off buying a granite countertop for your kitchen, or an ultra-efficient furnace that would lower heating bills by hundreds of dollars every year? [read more]
Five short stories from World Energy Outlook
The IEA’s World Energy Outlook (WEO) is an annual tradition, the result of much work, data analysis and presentation. A formative volume is produced for all to read and digest, but few of us have the time to do so in the detail required. As such we rely to some extent on IEA presentations and summary documents. One such presentation was given by IEA Chief Economist Dr. Fatih Birol for the British Institute of Energy Economics. Rather than a WEO “tour de force”, the format was closer to storytelling, or more correctly short stories. Here are five pearls that emerge from the most recent WEO. [read more]
Communities Dive In: Local Planning for Energy Efficiency
This post is the second of three on sustaining local energy efficiency efforts. The first post described trends in local implementation of energy efficiency. The next post will explore sustainable funding sources.While some local governments are still just testing the waters of energy efficiency; many others have decided to dive in... [read more]
Window Film: An Energy Savings Superhero?
To the casual observer, energy efficiency means very little, that is until they see the cost savings associated with making tweaks to their homes and businesses. According to a new report, one energy retrofit may be more efficient than the rest. Who's thought of installing window film on their windows lately? Well, the... [read more]
Defense Department Releases Roadmap to Transform Energy Use in Military Operations
The Defense Department recently released its widely anticipated roadmap to transform operational energy security. Energy security has become a strategic as well as an operational imperative for U.S. national security. [read more]
Energy Efficiency: The Abundance of Zilch
The Northeast stands at a cross-roads for the future of our region’s energy system. Over the last decade there have been events that have alerted us to our growing need to diversify our energy resources: the great blackout of 2003 which left 50 million people throughout the Northeast and Canada in the dark, not to mention several... [read more]
Adjusting the EU Energy Efficiency Target
There are intense negotiations underway in Brussels and Strasbourg as the EU Parliament heads towards a key committee vote on the Energy Efficiency Directive at the end of this month. All this has come about because of concerns that Europe will not meet the third leg of its well known 20-20-20 by 2020 target, i.e. a 20% reduction in primary energy use compared with projected levels, to be achieved by improving energy efficiency. [read more]
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Greener Leases Lead to Energy Transparency - and Savings
What does green leasing have to do with energy efficiency? Bringing energy transparency into the leasing process will help tenants and landlords alike better measure, and manage, their energy use. [read more]
Neglecting Heat Efficiency
With all the talk about energy efficiency lately, where does heat efficiency comes into the equation? Do we need to move away from thinking just about electricity in terms of efficiency? [read more]
Where Maryland Is Getting It Right with Energy Efficiency
Maryland has some of the most aggressive energy savings laws in the nation. The state’s commitment to energy efficiency offers a host of benefits to Maryland’s local economy, including consumer energy bill savings and job creation. Maryland is outpacing national private sector job growth five times over, with many of these new... [read more]
Energy Efficiency in 2011: Progress on Many Fronts, Treading Water on Others
With 2011 drawing to a close, now is a good time to take stock of energy efficiency accomplishments over the past year. On the plus side, many energy efficiency investments were made this year. While exact figures are not available yet, utility-sector spending on energy efficiency programs is likely to be more than $6 billion for the... [read more]
What Energy Efficient Light Bulb Regulations Mean: The Green Skeptic on WSJ.com
GE Lighting Institute's Mary Beth Gotti and The Green Skeptic's Scott Edward Anderson join Wendy Bounds on WSJ.com's LunchBreak to discuss new energy efficient federal light bulb regulations that take effect on January 1, 2012. Here's a link to the original: LunchBreak [read more]
Building Hope and Sustainability
Nancy Welsh. Photo credit: Builders of Hope Builders of Hope is an organization headquartered in Raleigh, NC, that rehabs doomed properties and transforms them into affordable, sustainable housing. It also works to make the new homes more energy efficient in order to reduce carbon emissions and keep electricity bills lower.... [read more]
Energy Efficiency First, Renewables Later
The usual custom among energy systems analysts is to make projections regarding future energy consumption and work back from those projections to what is required to meet them. Following business-as-usual practices, Brussels projects a doubling of Europe’s energy consumption by 2050, and that 60-80% of the energy generation in 2050 will... [read more]
“We can’t wait …” President Obama’s $4 Billion Energy Efficiency Announcement
“We can’t wait …” President Obama’s words as to a private-partnership set of building energy-efficiency investments that will total $4 billion are, sigh, ever-so-true across a huge portfolio of issues. And, well, let us be clear that this $4 billion is only a drop in the ocean of national requirements and opportunities even... [read more]
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Baby You Can Drive My (Electric) Car
Posted May 11, 2012 by Scott Edward Anderson
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Siemens develops ABS plastic alternative
Posted May 9, 2012 by Doris de Guzman
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Reduce CO2 and Slow Global Warming?
Posted April 30, 2012 by Willem Post
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Hidroenergia 2012
May 25, 2012, Wroclaw, Poland
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WGC 2012 - 25th World Gas Conference
June 4, 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Ecwatech 2012
June 4, 2012, Moscow, Russia
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“Cities will need to be retrofitted, as a whole. There's much work to be done. Vertical farming and other forms of energy/space/agriculture integration will be necessary to further sustain how humans live on this planet.”
“David,Reserves, potential resources and production are not interchangeable, and apocalyptic statements that depend on conflating them are thus fundamentally flawed. Your cogent analysis makes this crucial distinction well. It just needs a bigger audience.”