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Energy efficiency: Green economy's neglected stepchild?

Is efficiency becoming like the weather, in that everyone talks about it but nobody does anything about it? Europe has ambitious 2020 climate and energy goals — a 20 percent reduction in primary energy use, a 20 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions and 20 percent of energy coming from renewable

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Buildings that save energy could also create jobs

A US-wide plan to make buildings more energy efficient could create more than 114,000 new jobs, many of them in the currently hard-hit construction industry, a new analysis has found. The study by The Real Estate Roundtable, the US Green Building Council, and the Natural Resources Defense Council looked

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Small and mid-sized buildings need efficiency too

Data logger supplier Onset has partnered with NorthWrite Inc. to deliver an integrated, real-time energy monitoring solution for use in a monitoring-based building commissioning program funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). The program, which aims to test NorthWrite’s energy efficiency service for buildings,