Energy Efficiency
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Greenpeace Calls For Facebook To Use 100% Renewable Energy
www.allfacebook.com via @racheloconnell &bull 5 Hours AgoA new Facebook group set up by Greenpeace is calling for Facebook to use 100 percent renewable energy within their data centers. This is a reinvigorated movement from the initial backlash against Facebook's environmental policies at the beginning of February. The latest group… Full Story »
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ABC Live-Online News,Breaking News,World News
abclive.in via @abclive &bull Mar 9, 2010New Delhi (ABC Live): A bill to empower the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) to fix the criteria and procedures for accreditation of energy auditors was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday. New Delhi (ABC Live): A bill to… Full Story »
Solar Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment
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California Restores Its Energy Efficiency Leadership
NRDC: Switchboard &bull Mar 8, 2010
A new report released by NRDC today describes how California restored its energy efficiency leadership by enacting smart policies over the last decade. These energy efficiency programs provide enormous economic and environmental benefits to the state. We released the report… Full Story »
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Case Study: Home Depot Is Green
GoodCleanTech &bull Mar 8, 2010
While Home Depot stores are always dressed in orange, green might be a better color. The home improvement giant announced that it's reduced its U.S. store energy use by 2.6 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) since 2004 and that it will achieve… Full Story »
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Cash-for-Appliances Gears Up in Many States: Energy Efficiency is the Goal
energy-conservation.suite101.com via @TWT_SAVE_ENERGY &bull Mar 8, 2010About 40 states begin their rebate programs in the spring of 2010. The stimulus plan, known formally as The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), includes $296 million dollars for more energy efficient home appliances. According to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, "Appliances consume a huge amount of our electricity, so there's enormous potential to both save energy and save families money every month."… Full Story »
Wind Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment
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New York Governor promises $40 million to improve energy efficiency
www.energyefficiencynews.com via @frugalelectric &bull Mar 5, 2010New York Governor David A. Paterson yesterday announced a $40 million investment to improve the energy efficiency of the state's schools, universities and colleges, hospitals and not-for-profit agencies. The 118 projects, funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA),… Full Story »
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Building Green Homes Breaks Into the Mainstream in Northern Cali
Earth2Tech &bull Mar 3, 2010
Green buildings are still far from typical across the U.S., but signs are mounting that mainstream homebuilders are starting to take energy efficiency and other green features a lot more seriously. The latest evidence came earlier this week when KB… Full Story »
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ASHRAE publishes first green building standard - 2010-01-25 23:50:13
www.bdcnetwork.com via @craigRuark &bull Feb 23, 2010Published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), in conjunction with the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Standard 189.1, Standard for the Design of High-Performance, Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, is the first code-intended commercial green building… Full Story »
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Energy efficiency starts at home
www.kdhnews.com via @BTUresearch &bull Feb 23, 2010From staff and wire reportsColder temperatures and higher electric bills have many Central Texas residents steamed at Oncor and retail electric providers like TXU.But, as Oncor representatives have pointed out in informational sessions around the area in the past couple of weeks, customers have a lot more power… Full Story »
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Lawmakers Strive to Derail Western States' Global Warming Efforts
www.care2.com via @PMulticulti &bull Feb 22, 2010Hello, I saw this on Care2 and thought you'd like it as well. Given the less-than-triumphant conclusion of the Copenhagen Climate Talks and the dire economic conditions that are putting pressure on job creation and economic security, the struggle to curb greenhouse emissions is entering a new, even tougher period as climate change plunges in the public's perception of importance. As federal action toward a climate… Full Story »
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New green economics.
Claimants Action South Wales &bull Feb 20, 2010New green economics.Friday 05 February 2010 Alan Simpson Whatever connects the controversy about how fast the glaciers are melting with the results of the latest British Social Attitudes Survey, it certainly isn't the latest Tory campaign poster "We can't go on like this" that links all three in confusion and insecurity. The British public have - rightly - become far more accepting of homosexuality and co-habitation rather than marriage. Caricatures that once presented these as a threat to the very fabric of society have largely melted away. We are beginning to see that what undermines society and relationships is a… Full Story »
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Nuclear Plants Will Go Up in Georgia SpeakEasy
SpeakEasy &bull Feb 20, 2010If you were to look out to the horizon of the clean energy field right now, you would see the hazy outlines of nuclear reactors. President Barack Obama announced this week that two new nuclear plants will go up in Georgia, built on the promise that the federal government will guarantee $8.3 billion in loans?nearly the entire estimated cost of the project. The president?s announcement wasn?t the only environmental downer this week. Expectations for the next international climate negotiations, to be held in Mexico at the end of 2010, are already low, and yesterday Yvo de Boer, the United Nations?… Full Story »
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Cash For Appliances From Energysavers.gov, Do You Qualify?
My Efficient Planet &bull Feb 20, 2010Cash for Appliances is one of the newest programs brought to you from Energysavers.gov for homeowners who would like to receive a rebate on some of their home appliances that they are replacing, such as closthes washer, refrigeratiors and dishwashers. Different states have rebate programs that allow different items, so check your states… Full Story »
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Green roof opportunities
REM - Real Estate Magazine &bull Feb 20, 2010Last year saw a batch of landmark environmental legislation passed all over North America. In the summer the United States House passed the Waxman Markey Act, and in December New York?s City Council passed a package of four green energy bills requiring energy audits and efficiency retrofits on buildings 50,000 square feet or larger. In Canada, Ontario passed the Green Energy Act in May, and during the same month Toronto enacted legislation requiring green roofs on new developments of 2,000 square metres… Full Story »
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Environmental Markets Newsletter: Event: Pew Center on Global ...
Environmental Markets Newsletter &bull Feb 19, 2010April 6-7, 2010 Chicago, IL This is a major conference marking the release of a comprehensive report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change on best practices in corporate energy efficiency: From Shop Floor to Top Floor: Best Business… Full Story »
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The Daily Free Press
The Daily Free Press RSS &bull Feb 19, 2010Finnish environmental policies should set an example for renewable energy and green architecture in the United States, Finnish ambassador, Pekka Lintu said at Harvard University on Wednesday. Lintu spoke to a round table audience of about 12 in a lecture entitled Green Public Diplomacy: Sustainability as Finlands… Full Story »
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RMI: Keeping the Lights On While Transforming Electric Utilities
www.rmi.org via @jennifermich &bull Feb 19, 2010Our most ambitious challenge yet: Reinventing Fire to drive the profitable transition from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables. But we cant do it alone. Electric utilities operate now much as they did a century agobut the environment in which they operate is changing dramatically. Now more than ever before, utilities whose regulators reward them in the traditional way for selling more electricity risk losing revenue as customers use their electricity more efficiently. Climate change and energy security concerns, coupled with advances in disruptive technologies, may make conventional power-generating assets uncompetitive to build or even to run. Potential competitors armed… Full Story »
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Boulder Green Building Guild - Green Building Conference
www.bgbg.org via @SustainableEd &bull Feb 19, 2010To print this page properly - use Print icon located on the page. To print this page properly - use Print icon located on the page.Please note that JavaScript has to be enabled. Download Sponsorship Flyer(Note: Sponsorship of the Conference… Full Story »
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Measuring Energy Efficiency in IT Managed and Cloud Services ...
Drigged.com &bull Feb 19, 2010February 19, 2010 by Computers-and-Technology Articles from EzineArticles.comFiled under: Computers and Technology As environmental issues begin to take center attention in the minds of people and on the agendas of legislature, saving energy has become an important issue facing many… Full Story »
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Energy efficiency to shine in 2010 - San Jose Mercury News
www.mercurynews.com via @InterfaceFLORla &bull Feb 19, 2010Solar and wind power may get the headlines and attention, but green-tech experts say 2010 will be dominated by energy efficiency, the mundane but critical process of cutting the amount of gas and electricity that homes and offices use. Sixteen states, including California and New York,… Full Story »
