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The world’s largest business software company has launched a new initiative to focus on the many challenges that urban centers face when trying to tackle sustainability issues....
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Siemens and the group Green Seal produced this free guide. It's intended for public housing authorities but can be used in any building, especially those with high-traffic areas....
While green has become the new black and cleantech is now viewed as sexy, affordable housing -- as fundamental to societal well-being as energy security -- maintains a reputation as a dowdy old......
Programs by Alcoa and Dow Chemical Company are among the 10 profiled by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy in a study of the successful use of social science in energy efficiency......
What does it take to make people save energy? This new study by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy profiles 10 successful energy-efficiency programs.
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More than a decade ago the U.S. Green Building Counci launched the LEED green building certification program, and since then LEED has certified more than 13,500 green commercial buildings and......
The company's new Conserve Gateway is a wireless router that connects to a user's smart meter to convey in-home energy monitoring, an important step in advancing the benefits of smart grid......
In the wake of Deepwater oil spill, the Natural Resources Defense Fund and the Institute for Market Transformation have updated their fact sheet "Reducing the Need for U.S. Drilling Through......
Utilities need to go beyond the smart meter and use a range of energy-feedback tools to achieve significant reductions in customers' power consumption and their electricity bills, new research......
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is offering comprehensive technical assistance to state capitals for the design and development of more sustainable neighborhoods -- ones that incorporate......
The Hohm website, Microsoft's home energy management application, now provides users with energy efficiency scores for their properties that can be compared with scores for neighbors and......
More than 45 firms and NGOs sign open letter calling on the administration to develop new smart meter policies....
A LEED-Platinum rated zero net energy live/work unit opens its doors to the public today before a deal closes to buy the unique property near the Oakland Estuary.
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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......
Balfour Beatty is working Travis Air Force Base in a pilot project to reduce energy use and change consumption habits of base residents using smart grid technology, as part of the U.S. Defense......
As a recently-minted author, I now understand you can never receive enough publicity for your new book. I've resolved to do my part to promote other new books on the sustainable real estate front......
San Francisco's GreenFinanceSF Program, already described as the largest retrofit loan program of its kind in the U.S., got a nearly $3 million boost from Recovery Act funds....
As the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bond program is poised to begin San Francisco, green building attorney Chris Cheatham recaps efforts to establish the plan in Washington, D.C....
Perkins+Will is the first architecture firm to be named a National Building Museum Honor Award recipient and joins musical artists Harry Connick Jr., Branford Marsalis, Ann Marie Wilkins and Jim......
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy have formed an action group to help states achieve the maximum cost-effective energy efficiency improvements possible in......
(Episode 102): The CEO of OPower talks to GreenBiz.com senior writer Marc Gunther about how a simple smiley face can get energy hogs to become energy misers, and how utilities are seeing the light...
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