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The 2012 operating budget for our 16- story master-metered condo with 230 units is $1,448,226. The budget anticipates an estimated savings of $27,400 in utility costs for the coming and future years as a result of various energy saving measures being made in the building’s HVAC and electrical systems. 
 
The savings enable the board to [...]

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This guest post from RL Miller provides an insightful way to look at decisions across America that are giving the Federal Government’s blessing to expanded and enhanced fossil fuel production.
The Keystone XL pipeline symbolizes our national debate: a governmental policy to be made that will set policy, for good or bad, for years to come: [...]

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An editorial note:  As will be seen, the title words are in quotations for a reason and were not the author’s in origin.
One of my personal great regrets at the moment is that I’m not out on my bike. Rather than bike commuting, bike shopping, and otherwise (at least when the weather isn’t too bad), [...]

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Today, the day after some 13,000 people surrounded the White House to call on President Obama to apply leadership in denying the Keystone XL pipeline application (excellent Inside Climate News article), Politico broke the news that the State Department’s Inspector General will conduct an investigation into State’s handling of the Keystone XL pipeline application. [...]

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Today is one year before the 2012 Presidential election. An important date. Considering the Anti-Science Syndrome suffering Hatred Of a Liveable Economic System dominating the Republican Party, it not hard to see this as an election that could seal the nation’s fate when it comes to any hope for navigating the Perfect Storm of Peak [...]

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Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, the only Nobel Prize winner in the Obama Administration’s cabinet, has developed a strong optimism about solar energy’s potential to be a major player in the U.S. and global electrical system. The “Sun Shot” is one of the core innovation efforts aiming to accelerate solar power’s cost curves so that, [...]

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We know that the regulation leads to a safer society and that regulatory paths toward reducing pollution loads leads to a healthier society.  These are simply facts.   Those facts, however, can be difficult to translate from larger statistics to our personal lives.  A new research paper from Nicholas J. Sanders and Charles F. Stoecker provides something that [...]

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Trade show spaces often have interesting surprises and value at conferences.
In 2011, the White House’s “GreenGov” conference is structured as a private conference – with sponsors and many companies showing things on the trade show. While discomfited by this structure (as opposed to a government event something truly open to the interested public), the conference’s trade [...]

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