Building Decarbonization Movement Leads Stealth Attack On Fossil Fuels
Knowledge is power: New building decarbonization technologies are mainstreaming, with an assist from new financial instruments.
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Behold: From Humble Energy Efficient Electric Motor To Climate Hero
This new high tech energy efficient electric motor won’t get you places in an EV, but it will get buildings to clean up their climate act.
Building Climate-Friendly Cities (In A Factory!)
Over the next 30 years we will be building a new urban habitat for about a third of the world’s population. The way we will build those cities will lock in certain lifestyles and emissions for decades to come. Therefore, we have to do it intelligently: in a way that is inexpensive, provides comfort and safety, saves local resources and keeps the climate impact low.
Energy Efficiency Kills Coal, One Building At A Time
File under Y for You ain’t seen nothing yet: Energy Department pumps up Better Buildings energy efficiency challenge.
Sprint, Macy’s, & Johnson Controls Join DOE’s Better Buildings Challenge
This article below has been republished from the U.S. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) website (image & link added): The Energy Department on February 21 announced that Johnson Controls, Macy’s, and Sprint are joining the Better Buildings Challenge. Launched by President Obama in 2011, the Better Buildings Challenge brings together corporations, … [continued]
The Smart Money Is Betting On Smart Windows
Okay, so maybe Damon Runyon was not thinking about a government-supported energy efficiency research project when he wrote, “the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s how the smart money bets.” But if he was alive today, he might have been thinking of … [continued]
Top 10 Clean Tech Stories of 2011
OK, I’m doing my top 10 list now. Following up on AWEA’s top 10 wind energy stories and SEIA’s top 10 solar energy stories, I decided I may as well give my own opinion on the top 10 clean energy stories and energy efficiency stories of 2011 (plus one … [continued]
Obama’s Better Buildings Bonanza! (Video, Facts, & More)
1st definition of “bonanza” in Merriam-Webster dictionary: “an exceptionally large and rich mineral deposit (as of an ore, precious metal, or petroleum).” OK, it’s a stretch, but who doesn’t love alliteration?! And, seriously, the Better Buildings initiative the Obama administration and former president Bill Clinton just launched is going … [continued]
