Bovis Lend Lease Teams with 1e to Cut Energy Use by 90,000 kWh

The construction and project management firm has installed 1e’s PC power management suite on 3,000 computers in Europe, allowing the firm to make quick progress on its corporate-wide energy efficiency goal.

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Greening the Workhorses of American Fleets

Medium-duty trucks, a mainstay for American fleets, produce more than 80 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. Environmental Defense Fund and PHH Arval are now offering fleet managers a framework for reducing emissions from the vehicles.

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Don’t Sweat the Trickle of Stimulus Funds

Recovery Act funding hasn’t been squandered, it just hasn’t been spent yet. While it’s understandable to be disappointed about how long it’s taken to get things in gear, there’s no reason to overreact and attack the program now that most of the growing pains are behind us.

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Aiming for 300 Million Negawatts: Ontario to Announce Energy Efficiency Program for Big Industry

Photo: Flickr , CC Energy Efficiency Makes Everything Else Easier Repeat after me: Energy efficiency might not be sexy, but it’s crucially important . Whatever we do, squeezing more utility out of each unit of energy is a good thing, and it makes it easier to transition from dirty sources of energy to cleaner ones (you need to build fewer new sources of power to replace the old ones). That’s why I applaud Ontario’s upcoming program for industrial energy efficiency

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Cutting-Edge Retrofit vs Simple Behavior Change: Green Strategies Go Head-to-Head

Image credit: Bioregional Development Group From the Clinton Foundation’s Global Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program to a major prize for sustainably ‘reskinning’ old buildings , there’s a lot to be said for improving the efficiency of our existing building stock. But upgrading old buildings can be an expensive business, and once you tackle the low hanging fruit, there is inevitably a law of dim… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Knit a Tea Cosy and Save Energy

Image from Grannies,inc . Tea cosies are a quintessentially British concept which has spread and developed into an art form

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Are Ground Source Heat Pumps (AKA Geothermal Systems) A Good Choice?

Green Building Advisor Every time I write about ground source heat pumps, (like in my post Blowing Hot and Cold on Ground Source Heat Pumps ) the commenters are enraged, saying ” If I were a geothermal contractor or manufacturer I would have asked that this be removed for falsely conveying what geothermal has to offer ” and “engineering degree would probably help too.” But I just got my licence to practice architecture thirty years ago this month and obviously don’t know what I am talking about, so it is great to find a real expert, like …

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Energy Savvy Gives Homeowners Tools for Zapping Energy Waste

Images via EnergySavvy EnergySavvy is the newest tool to hit the web for homeowners looking to minimize wasted energy. By creating a profile of your home and getting a score based on your current energy efficiency, you can find out the various ways to improve your home’s energy efficiency, find contractors to help you make the improvements, and discover what rebates you qualify for in making your improvements

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Facebook is Between a Rock and a Greenpeace

Photo via NCSU The “rock” in that exceedingly clever headline above refers, of course, to coal. You may have heard that FaceBook recently chose to power a new energy-hungry data server with coal-fired electricity at a new location up in Oregon

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Facebook is Between a Rock and a Greenpeace

Photo via NCSU The “rock” in that exceedingly clever headline above refers, of course, to coal. You may have heard that FaceBook recently chose to power a new energy-hungry data server with coal-fired electricity at a new location up in Oregon

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