How the Fate of PACE Could Influence the Clean Energy Economy
PACE financing is a potentially revolutionary way to retrofit commercial, residential, and industrial properties with energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. The program overcomes one of the largest hurdles to investment in clean energy — the upfront cost
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How the Fate of PACE Could Influence the Clean Energy Economy
Kyocera’s Edible ‘Green Curtains’ Take a Bite Out of Energy Use
Kyocera Group has planted edible "green curtains" stretching thousands of feet across facilities in Japan, Thailand and Brazil in a bid to keep its buildings cool and greenhouse gas emissions low.
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Kyocera’s Edible ‘Green Curtains’ Take a Bite Out of Energy Use
Is Your Product Good for the Climate? Here’s How to Prove It
Rigorous environmental product declarations are relatively new in the U.S., and Bekaert Specialty Films is among the early adopters of the practice. BSF completed a climate declaration with the lifecycle analyses of 32 of its solar window films
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Is Your Product Good for the Climate? Here’s How to Prove It
Rising Seas Could Dampen Aussie Coastal Building
The state government of New South Wales (NSW) just released new planning guidelines that discourage development in some coastal zones due to sea level rise caused by climate change.
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Rising Seas Could Dampen Aussie Coastal Building
Sustainable Consumption: Opportunity or Oxymoron?
Consuming smarter goes only so far. We also have to consume less of just about everything, and that bumps up squarely against the business imperative, which is to sell more of just about everything.
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Sustainable Consumption: Opportunity or Oxymoron?
Climate Corps 2010: When Buildings Go ‘Retro’
Buildings that have changing uses and those that weren’t commissioned after construction can be secretly wasting energy. In both cases, retrocommissioning can help
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Climate Corps 2010: When Buildings Go ‘Retro’
New Guide Spotlights Expanding Roster of Green MBA Programs
Net Impact’s latest guide profiling Masters of Business Administration (MBA) programs is more than twice as big as its first iteration in 2006, which bodes well for students navigating a growing field of schools offering sustainability curricula.
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U.S. Department of Energy Embarks on Cool Roof Initiative
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Warm Air Stored in the Summer Will Heat a Swiss School in the Winter
In icy climates, it’s not unheard of to have buildings using stored ice and snow from the winter for cooling in the summer, but a new plan in Switzerland will turn that approach on its head. Hoggenberg Campus in Switzerland is building a new phase of the school called Science City where warm air will be stored in the summer to be used for heating in the winter. The plan involves capturing excess heat from appliances, computer servers, and even body heat during the summer and pumping it underground into two heat storage fields made up of 800, 200-meter-long, water-filled pipes. Those pipes will be five meters underground, beneath and alongside the buildings. The heat will be stored in the circulating water at about 46 – 64 degrees Fahrenheit. In colder months, the heat will be pumped through the system and electricity will bring the temperature up to 86 – 95 degrees Fahrenheit for warming the buildings.
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Warm Air Stored in the Summer Will Heat a Swiss School in the Winter
Better Place Battery Swap Will Be Cheaper Than Gasoline
Shai Agassi, the founder of Better Place, said in a speech Monday that his company’s battery-swapping service will launch at a price cheaper than gasoline in most places, costing the equivalent of $2 – $2.50 a gallon and falling to a $1-a-gallon equivalent by the end of the decade. The swapping service will allow electric vehicle drivers to pull up to a Better Place station and have their drained battery exchanged for a fully-charged one in just under a minute. Its official launch is in 79 days in Israel , where gas is close to $7 a gallon. The full pricing plans will be announced just before the launch. For the past 75 days, electric taxi drivers in Tokyo have been testing a pilot swapping station . The battery swaps have averaged 59.1 seconds and each taxi has averaged 10,000 miles, marks of success according to Better Place.
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