We spend a lot of time on this blog talking about energy efficiency (typically electricity or natural gas), but water conservation is a focus of Green Squared. In fact, we work with apartments and hotels to save money through water saving devices like aerators, shower heads, and toilet tank kits. Houston is #2 on the [...]
I’m a big believer in the theory that “what gets measured, gets done.” It is a corollary to the management practice of “what gets bonus-ed, gets done.” As we mentioned last week here, there are already 1.7 million smart meters deployed in Texas, and 6 million will be deployed by 2013. This article from the [...]
According to this Enviromental Leader article, four Fairmont hotels in Canada are saving over $800,000 annually though several projects that include solar, hydro, and wind energy, a lighting retrofit and heat recovery that will cost between $15,000 to $500,000 – the payback time is between two to five years. Here’s a quick run-down of several [...]
Green Squared VP Business Development, Phil Stringer and President, Bobby Bragg, attended the CATEE (Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency) 2010 conference last week in Austin, Texas. Here are some notes from the conference: The conference was opened by Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell, C. Donald Babers, Regional Administrator for Region VI, U.S. HUD and Texas Public [...]
I love these types of stories…Tishman Speyer turned your average 23-year old downtown Manhattan office building into a LEED Gold building by doing nothing out of the ordinary. That’s right, no wind turbines, solar panels, or geothermal digs. David Roth of gbNYC (Green Building in NYC) nails it with “What happened at 375 Hudson is [...]
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