What’s Slowing Down Energy Efficiency Adoption?
Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by Shay Walsh in Blog
Tweet The Clean Tech Open National Conference took place this summer in San Jose, California assembling the brightest and most talented minds to debate how energy entrepreneurship can power our economy back to life. The Energy Efficiency Panel brought up the important state of improvements made in energy efficiency and the elements of the movement [...]
Some Bright Ideas for Saving Money, Living Better and Helping the Planet
Posted on 19. Aug, 2010 by Alex Vidal in Blog
Tweet FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Based in the land of sunshine, where no one seems to actually worry about light, perhaps it is ironic that one Florida-based company is finding a way to integrate energy efficiency and cost savings via a home’s lighting. In difficult economic times, people are always looking for [...]
New Life for Old Fixtures
Posted on 21. Jul, 2010 by Shay Walsh in Blog
Tweet As the range for lighting options expands, compact fluorescent bulbs are contending directly with LED technology to become the number one resource of home environment energy-efficient lighting. Developers who focus on lighting design work will have to expand their technology to adapt to the continued development of lighting options. In an interview with The [...]
Building Efficiency: It Will Cost You To Wait
Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by Shay Walsh in Blog
Tweet In efforts to make buildings greener, understanding the basic interactions between lighting and energy efficiency is at the heart of the process. Commercial building managers are taking on the task of developing a more holistic understanding of lighting and how upgrades like retrofits, smart controls and management systems bring swift returns on investments as [...]
Chief Greening Officer Seeks Energy Efficient Lighting
Posted on 16. Jun, 2010 by Shay Walsh in Blog
Tweet The U.S. General Services Administration has appointed Eleni Reed to become the first chief greening officer for the agency and lead efforts to make government buildings greener. The GSA established the position earlier this year to accelerate President Obama’s federal sustainability agenda. The agency was responding to the president’s executive order that called for [...]
Envisioning the High Performance Hospital
Posted on 15. Jun, 2010 by Shay Walsh in Blog
Tweet Did you know hospitals account for four percent of all energy consumed in the United States? If that doesn’t sound like much, consider that hospitals use about two-and-a-half times the amount of energy as a comparably sized commercial building. Cost control, maintaining quality healing and working environments, and more sustainable, energy efficient operations are [...]
