Everyone remembers the food pyramid from grammar school right? The Green Building Advisor now has an Energy Efficiency Pyramid. I found this interesting pyramid on Jetson Green’s blog that I mentioned yesterday here. Here is the pyramid: The conservation pyramid has 10 levels that, as you climb from the bottom, become increasingly more expensive and [...]
I ran across a great website and blog, Jetson Green last week after I was sent his post about the 4th Annual Green Building Survey. By the way, the survey was conducted in February 2010 (yeah, recent and current opinion polls) and covers 1600 respondents. The full Green Building Survey is here. The Jetson Green [...]
According to new U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) data, nearly half of all LEED certifications in its eight-year history have occurred in 2009 (2089 of the 4,327 LEED-certified projects in existence). That number may actually top 50% since those numbers were only through December 5, 2009. Forty-two percent of the registrations (11,172/26,385) also occurred in [...]
As spring approaches, it makes sense that people start thinking more about solar. Well, on Thursday, there were at least three big announcements about big solar projects getting funding. And no, I don’t think it has anything to do with the change of seasons. The city of San Antonio announced three new solar projects totaling [...]
A new report from the nonprofit Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE) says that US utilities spent $4.4 billion (up 38% from 2008) for electric energy efficiency programs and $930 million for natural gas programs (up 79% from 2008). Electric energy efficiency spending grew the fastest in the Southeast and South Central states, with a 76% [...]
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