By Elisa Wood What’s the shelf life of today’s support for energy efficiency technologies? The industry has seen an unprecedented boom over the last several years. But all booms eventually bust. A recent souring of public opinion about global warming science has some industry insiders bracing for impact. Will American enthusiasm for clean energy come to a halt? Only if it was global warming that spurred the enthusiasm in the first place – and I suspect it was not.
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By Elisa Wood Energy efficiency appears to have married rich in partnering with smart grid. Yet another report shows that together they have formed what has become today’s most appealing clean tech sector for venture capital. Ernst & Young, using data from Dow Jones VentureSource, recently reported that financing rounds grew 11% in 2009 for energy efficiency, this as deals for the clean tech sector as a whole dropped by 16%.
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By Elisa Wood It’s clear that the energy efficiency industry is undergoing an unprecedented boom, spurred by state and federal support and movement toward a smarter grid. But for those in the industry, where exactly can the new business – and the jobs – be found? Two new reports by Colorado-based Pike Research shed some light. After years of focusing on…
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By Elisa Wood Tip his hand? In fact, as Stewart pointed out, Obama has shown that hand broadly to the world for the last year. Starting with his January 2009 inaugural speech, Obama buoyed the clean energy industry by advancing renewable energy, a first for a US president in that forum. But that turned out to be just the start. In talk after talk this year, he pushed
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By Green Building Inspector As the home’s green building verifier I’ll be traveling to the “Hub City” at 3:30 or 4:00 a.m. (I should have my head examined) on Monday the 7th for the faming inspection and thermal bypass checklist…(now that should be the news story…that someone was able to get my butt out-a-bed that early for work…)
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By Green Building Inspector With social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter becoming more popular and easier to use, I’ve been able to connect to some rather interesting sites and have re-connected with many friends I thought were long lost. SuperGreenMe.com is my latest find; it’s easy to navigate and has great info for the environmentally conscience. Here’s an
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By Green Building Inspector There is a direct connection between heat loss and heat gain as it relates to your home’s protective skin, also known as the building envelope. Ideally your home should maximize heat retention during the winter and minimize heat gain during the summer. The best energy efficient design
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By Green Building Inspector If you’ve been using cell phones for some years, you’ve probably amassed quite a pile of chargers as well. When the phone dies or you upgrade, the chargers are useless. It’s more junk laying around and not only that, a ton of resources have gone into making those items.
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By Green Building Inspector If you had an extra $1,000 dollars, what energy efficient improvement(s) would you make?
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By Green Building Inspector Check out these top 10 energy wasters and savers from the homeowner newsletter HouseKeys published by NAHB.
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