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California Requires TVs To Be More Energy Efficient
AP | SAMANTHA YOUNG | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California regulators adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions Wednesday in hopes of reducing...
Kansas Launches $34M Energy Efficiency Program
AP | JOHN HANNA | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas launched a new energy efficiency program Tuesday to make low-interest loans available to several thousand home owners and ...
Palin's Book Spreads Falsehoods About Environmental Policy
Grist | Joseph Romm | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
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In her upcoming book Going Rogue: An American Life, Sarah Palin made a slew of false charges concerning clean energy legislation....
Enough With the Global Warming Graphics, Get to the Choices
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
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Only 30 percent of Americans say global warming should be a top priority for Congress and the President. Activists need to lose the graphics and get back to the basics: the facts.
New York State has a Big Choice - Monday
Jack Hidary | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
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Let's see if our dysfunctional state system can pass a bill that helps us all or whether we are doomed to be left behind as the rest of the country benefits from the new energy economy.
Creating Jobs, Investment and Economic Opportunity in the Outer Boroughs
John Petro | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York
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What New Yorkers need, especially those in outer boroughs suffering from the housing crash, is a way to channel investment to make green improvements to their homes and businesses.
New Energy Economy -- Next Steps for Colorado and the Nation
Leslie Weise | Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver
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There are many obstacles to transition our dependency on traditional fossil fuels to cleaner energy solutions, and Ritter has demonstrated the courage to confront those obstacles.
Taipei 101 To Be World's Tallest Green Building
inhabitat.com | Bridgette Meinhold | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
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Taipei 101, famous for being one of the world's tallest buildings, is set to get some major eco-upgrades in an effort to save money, reduce its impact...
Road to Copenhagen - Part 3: Re-Tooling Industry
William S. Becker | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
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A new study commissioned by World Wildlife Fund International identified 24 critical resources and industries the world will need to develop quickly to avoid climate catastrophe.
The Real Paradox of Energy Efficiency
Bernie Bulkin | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green
In the well known McKinsey/Wattenfall study on greenhouse gas emissions, almost all the most cost effective measures were efficiency, and virtually all efficiency measures had a negative cost.
On National Weatherization Day, a New Bunch of Skilled Denver Workers Pioneer National Green Jobs Movement
Jamie Starr | Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver
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Once rolled out, the training program could create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, reduce energy costs by $3.5 billion per year, and save 500 million barrels of oil annually.
Bittercreek Alehouse: Low-Power Happy Hour And A Worm Bin
nytimes.com | Kate Galbraith | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green
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A campaign to unplug things from neon beer signs to extra refrigerators helped the pub cut its electricity bill by about 35 percent in 2008, according...
Weatherization: Saving Money by Saving Energy
Steven Chu | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green
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Long before I learned about the risks of climate change, I was fanatical about energy efficiency because I'm cheap. We want to help millions of families seize the same opportunity to cut their utility bills.
Latest Draft of Senate Climate Bill: What's Good and What Needs Work
Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green
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The bill ensures the vast majority of allowances go to helping consumers, providing a level playing field for energy intensive industries, deploying low-carbon technologies, and preventing deforestation.
Rising to the Challenge: Architecture 2030 and Residential Energy Codes
Laura A. Hutchings | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
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What is the 2030 Challenge and why should we care about residential energy codes? Architecture 2030 is an organization dedicated to reducing the envi...
Leaving the Law, Part Two: A Different Kind of Green
Laura A. Hutchings | Posted 10.24.2009 | Denver
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In May of this year, I left my post as an associate at a large international law firm to stake my claim in the Wild West of Colorado's clean energy economy.
The Debate Over Clotheslines
MSN Money | Teresa Mears | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
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If you live in an older neighborhood in most cities, you can hang your wet clothes out to dry with impunity. But if, like 60 million Americans, you li...
1950s vs. 2000s: The Drive to Supersize
Bill Chameides | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
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In the 1950s the average American consumed roughly 2,200 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year; today that number has grown to roughly 13,800 kilowatt-hours per year.
Big Little Green Idea
Richard Seireeni | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
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What if home designers added a 'dry room' to their plans -- a place where the furnace, water heater (or tankless water heater) and washer/dryer could live together along with built-in lines or racks for drying clothes?
Solar Decathlon: The Competition For The Best Solar-Powered House (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post | ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 10.12.2009 | Green
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University teams from around the world are busy constructing sustainable houses at this year's U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition...
Suburban Towns Strive To Be Environmentally Aware
nytimes.com | MIREYA NAVARRO | Posted 10.12.2009 | Green
Some of these towns are offering energy retrofits; others furnish free parking to fuel-efficient hybrid cars. Yet others are limiting or banning the u...
A Zero Energy Home for All Americans: Ed Pollock Promotes Builders Challenge at EEBA Conference
Laura A. Hutchings | Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver
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The Department of Energy came to Denver this week, promoting its Builders Challenge initiative, which seeks to promote affordable, zero energy homes f...
Saving Energy: Efficient Electronics Are Still Power Hogs
nytimes.com | Posted 11.20.2009 | Technology
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The proliferation of personal computers, iPods, cellphones, game consoles and all the rest amounts to the fastest-growing source of power demand in th...
A Win-Win for Energy Efficiency and Jobs
Matt Petersen | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
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By developing a comprehensive plan to retrofit our homes and offices we can put thousands of people back to work and boost local economies.
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