Construction and use of buildings account for a major share of global warming emissions. Depending on how one calculates, allocating roughly 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to this built infrastructure is roughly correct. Heating … cooling … lighting … building materials … etc, it all adds up (and up … and up). […]
Getting to a better building …
February 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment
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In a Warming World: Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best Flipped Around?
February 3rd, 2011 · 5 Comments
When it comes to security planning one of the oldest adages is “Plan for the worst, hope for the best.” For example, in the business management real, IT managers plan need to plan and prepare for back-ups of all data in the event of catastrophic failure of the main system. This adage certainly has its […]
Tags: Energy · Global Warming