NY saves $3.1 million in energy efficiency program

Turning off lights, turning down the heat and buying with an eye toward energy efficiency is saving New York more than $3.1 million so far this fiscal year.

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States ranked on energy efficiency

An advocacy group ranks California, Connecticut and Oregon at the top of a list of states improving energy efficiency to respond to high prices, energy security and global warming.

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China says energy efficiency improving

China is making progress in a five-year effort launched in 2006 to improve energy efficiency in its fuel-guzzling economy, a state news agency said Tuesday, but the country is still falling short of its annual targets.

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Cap-and-trade Requires Paying the "True Cost" of Resources

Many of our Legislators have expressed the idea that cap-and-trade is a tax that would be expensive and hurt the economy, particularly farming. That isn't necessarily so.

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India to set Energy Efficiency Targets for Energy Intensive Industries

In a bid to clarify its official stance and pressurize the developed countries ahead of the next month's Copenhagen climate talks the Indian Prime Minister announced ambitious domestic mitigation measures while meeting with EU representatives in New Delhi.

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Energy Secretary Steven Chu explains how we could revolutionize energy use by turning our dumb grid into a smart grid.

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Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that more than $354 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is being awarded to 22 states to support energy efficiency and conservation activities.

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excerpt: "" In the early hours of September 10th, the New York State Senate passed a major bill championed by the Working Families Party to make energy efficiency upgrades to one million homes and businesses over the next five years.

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Energy efficiency is the "low-hanging fruit" of energy policy, and is the quickest, easiest, and most cost-effective way of driving new investment, creating jobs, saving consumers money, and cutting pollution.

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Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today.

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What I've Learned from my Last Split Air Conditioner

The global warming has wrecked havoc on the earth as the temperature is rising and touching a new high every year. The people across the globe are suffering from the ill effects of global warming.

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You are contributing to a cleaner environment by upgrading to solar generated electricity. You are also taking a step toward energy independence.

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McKinsey & Co. have released another report about climate change, but this time they're putting it in motivating terms: money, money, money.

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Our health-care crisis and our energy crisis are complex dilemmas made of many complex problems. But our biggest problem in both health care and energy is essentially the same simple problem: we use too much.

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Over the past decade, whenever I went to China and engaged Chinese on their pollution and energy problems, inevitably some young Chinese would say: "Hey, you Americans got to grow dirty for 150 years, using cheap coal and oil. Now it is our turn."

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A recent event in San Diego highlighted how solar cooking works and demonstrated various recipes that work in the solar cooker.

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True or False?

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Hey mechanical-types, I challenge you to make this energy efficiency project this summer

Clean the air, release us from dependence on foreign fossil fuel (and Big Oil!). GEET turns the molecules of any vaporized liquid into a fuel which burns super-efficiently in any engine, and increases all areas of engine's performance.

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Today, we think that architecture is independent of climate. You build a sleek glass box, whether you're in Dallas, Texas or London, England, and you don't pay attention to where you are.

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N THE search for cheap, efficient sources of white light, LEDs have long been touted as offering the most potential. Now a new generation of white organic LEDs could become the source of choice for homes, offices and even computer displays.

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"How environmental change can begin at the President's house". The White House is not known for being energy efficient. This provides some information on past changes that were made to improve efficiency and also an interesting list of changes that still can be made.

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The investment, which demonstrates a new commitment in China towards developing cleaner energy, almost matches the £1.6bn announced by President Barack Obama last week for US companies to develop plug-in vehicles.

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Home and business owners could pay for clean energy technology through their property tax bills

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What nation is the most sustainable in the world? If you guessed Sweden or Denmark, you would be wrong. Instead, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has declared Cuba as the only country on the planet that is approaching sustainable development.

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For years, it was the conventional wisdom: If you improved quality, costs would also rise. But then companies discovered the opposite was true.

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GLENDALE, Calif.—Sharon Schara can forget about storing her Lean Cuisines and her sodas after the school district she works for told teachers they must remove most personal appliances from their classrooms as part of a new energy plan.

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Barack Obama urged the energy department to adopt higher efficiency standards for household appliances that had been blocked for years by George Bush.

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Future of lighting looks bright with new invention

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