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• The Utility Conundrum: Has California Cracked the Catch-22 for Utilities?

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 503
  How do you force a company that earns money by selling power to reduce its sales? This conflict of interests is what the state of California faced in the 1970s and the result was the formation of the California Public Utilities Corporation (CPUC) an agency that oversees the publicly owned utilities in the state and ...
  2 days ago

• Wool-Blanketed Solar Home Sends Electrons to Swedish Grid

  
  Home Design Find — Authority: 464
  Here’s a new solar home, designed from the start not just to supply the home’s occupants with 100% of the electricity they need, but to ship its surplus electrons to the grid. Karin Adalberth, a doctor of building physics, worked with her local green utility E. ON to design the solar plan for Villa Akarp, ...
  4 days ago

• LEED for Homes Point by Point – Energy & Atmosphere

  
  Green Life Smart Life — Authority: 424
  Energy and Atmosphere : 21.5 points achieved out of 36 points available :: The overall goal of EA is to optimize energy performance of the building. We opted to follow the performance path which meant our world be rated according to the ENERGY STAR for home standards (the document can be found here ). ENERGY STAR ...
  5 days ago

• DOEs NREL Builds One of the World’s Most Efficient Buildings

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 134
  NREL-Version-3.jpg Net zero buildings – which consume so little power that they take nothing from the grid– have been the holy grail of energy efficiency experts for years.
  6 days ago

• US lab aims to build better, cheaper, zero-energy buildings

  
  Greenbang — Authority: 437
  While cars, trucks and planes might come to mind first as carbon emissions Enemy No. 1, all our buildings aren’t quite as environmentally innocent as they might appear. In the US, for example, buildings account for 40 per cent of the country’s carbon dioxide emissions. In the UK, that figure is even higher: ...
  1 week ago

• Cloud Tower To Float Over London for 2012 Olympics

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 631
  all images courtesy of the CLOUD | www.raisethecloud.org Discovery News brings us the The Cloud, an observation tower made of glowing spheres anchored by lightweight, transparent towers. Designed by Carlo Ratti, head of the MIT SENSEable Cities Laboratory, it is "is a new kind of architectural landmark that will be ...
  1 week ago

• Kohl’s Pledges to Achieve Net Zero Emissions by 2010

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 620
  Kohl’s Department Stores is the first retailer to commit to net zero emissions as part of its partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leaders program. Kohl’s pledges to achieve net zero emissions by 2010 and maintain carbon neutrality through 2012. The retailer said its goal is ...
  2 weeks ago

• First Net-Zero Neighborhood in the US Being Built in Boulder

  
  The Far Edge — Authority: 155
  A new development in the north of Boulder, CO stands to be the first completely net-zero neighborhood in the US. Dubbed SpringLeaf Boulder , the project aims to bring net-zero homes “to the masses” by streamlining green technologies and driving down costs. The twelve homes are designed for LEED Platinum ...
  2 weeks ago

• First Net-Zero Neighborhood in the US Being Built in Boulder

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 728
  A new development in the north of Boulder, CO stands to be the first completely net-zero neighborhood in the US. Dubbed SpringLeaf Boulder , the project aims to bring net-zero homes “to the masses” by streamlining green technologies and driving down costs. The twelve homes are designed for LEED Platinum ...
  2 weeks ago

• Energy Efficiency, Net Zero, Plug-Ins & More Win-Win Opportunities

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 503
  With the United States of America’s ever-mounting trade and budget deficits, unemployment above 10 percent (and, dependent on counting, un- and under-employment above 20 percent), looming peak oil and other resource (water, for example) limitations, environmental challenges, and ever-mounting climate chaos , ...
  3 weeks ago

• Concrete Floor Finish

  
  Raisingspaces — Authority: 106
  The best way that I can think of to add a large amount (20+ tonnes) of thermal mass to a solar home is by adding concrete floors. By doing this, one can get two uses, thermal storage and a finished floor,  out of the same investment. Furthermore, since the mass of a concrete floor is so [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Important News - Nov. 15

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 543
  Zero rates means there is something very, very wrong. Japan has been in a zero rate crisis for over 2 decades during which time it has watched its stock market collapse in price by 80% and real estate fall by around the same amount. Low interest rates provide no solution whatsoever, and they are evidence of a ...
  5 weeks ago

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