President Obama, with former President Bill Clinton at his side, announced a $4 billion green building initiative today as part of the Better Building Challenge. The program is estimated to save $40 billion a year in energy costs, and create 50,000 jobs [...]
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Just when you were getting used to CFLs LED lights are popping up on the lighting shelves. So what’s the deal? [...] Solar tubes work like skylights but are less expensive and require less roof/ceiling space. They require no electricity to run and produce no pollution. This can result in energy cost savings and contribute to a healthier planet. [...] A big advantage of going green is saving money. In this story, one proprietor is saving $100,000 a year and another $8,000 a year. They did it with ENERGY STAR and by changing behavior. [...] President Obama made the development of cleaner energy a central tenet of his State of the Union speech and said that a “new goal” will be for the nation to generate 80 percent of its electricity from clean energy sources by 2035. [...] |
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