Lovins has been a leading practitioner of advanced energy efficiency in buildings, vehicles and industry for over three decades.
Second, this trend coincides with new potential for improved energy efficiency in buildings, which substitutes better use of information for the wasteful use of energy and dramatically reduces the need for electricity production.
Participants also recognized the process of building green economies and societies as a source of job creation in sectors such as renewable energy, energy efficiency in buildings and construction, sustainable transport, and organic farming.
This report to the President highlights the strategic importance to the United States of maintaining scientific and market leadership in energy technology, and identifies many opportunities to improve energy efficiency in buildings, industry, transportation, and clean energy generation.
The Federal government is also committed to creating jobs and cutting costs by investing in energy efficiency in Federal buildings.
There have been ideas about increasing energy-efficiency standards in buildings much as Carol has worked tirelessly to do with cars, light trucks and heavy duty trucks for the very first time.
Orion is an energy management company with a focus on high efficiency lighting systems and alternative energy system integration in commercial buildings.
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However, Mr Evans said the council would "continue" to try to improve energy efficiency in council-owned homes and buildings in Leeds.
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But projects such as the Bahnstadt show the energy revolution and European efficiency goals "have put very low energy buildings much more strongly in investors' focus, " said Stephan Sperl, a spokesman for German state lender KfW Bankengruppe, which offers low-interest construction loans for energy-efficient residential buildings.
My blog post came about after reading an article in the online edition of Fast Company in which the energy efficiency of LEED certified buildings was being questioned.
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Investing in clean energy technology and improving the efficiency of buildings, cars and transportation system will create whole new industries, and as these flourish, there will be new demand for professions and skills of all types, producing new jobs that will drive our economic recovery.
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As each company seeks to be greener than the next, so demand is growing to get buildings certified by the Leadership in Energy Efficiency and Design programme (LEED), America's biggest green rating system, run by the not-for-profit Green Building Council.
The renovation of Leishman and Marshall Towers will see the buildings entirely reclad in order to enhance their energy efficiency.
Although the majority of buildings have made leaps and bounds in terms of energy efficiency, the same cannot be said for the growing number of gadgets and gizmos plugged into the wall sockets of those buildings.
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