ACEEE: Energy Efficiency Programs and Policies Could Save Louisiana Residents and Businesses over $4 Billion

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

NEWS RELEASE     Media Contact: Patrick Kiker [email protected]  202.507.4043   Energy Efficiency Programs and Policies Could Save Louisiana Residents and Businesses over $4 Billion   New Orleans Already Beginning to Lead State in Energy Efficiency Efforts, but Tremendous Savings for Residents and Businesses Still Untapped     Washington, D.C. …

Creating Value through Energy Management

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

NEWS RELEASE     Media Contact: Patrick Kiker [email protected]  202.507.4043   Creating Value Through Energy Management   Champions within industrial facilities may be the largest piece missing from the energy policy and program landscape. Some energy program administrators are sponsoring the placement of dedicated energy managers at industrial facilities to …

The Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013 Lights a Path Forward for Energy Efficiency

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

NEWS RELEASE     Media Contact: Patrick Kiker [email protected]  202.507.4043   The Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013 Lights a Path Forward for Energy Efficiency   By ACEEE Policy Program Director Suzanne Watson   Today Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) released The Energy Savings and …

Lost Savings from Delay on New Energy-Saving Standards Equals $3.7 Billion

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

NEWS RELEASE   Press contacts: Patrick Kiker, ACEEE, 202.507.4043, [email protected] Andrew deLaski, ASAP, 617.515.7755, [email protected]   Lost Savings from Obama’s Delay on New Energy-Saving Standards Is $3.7 Billion and Counting Over the past two years, the administration has missed deadline after deadline for completing new or updated standards for products ranging from …

‘Money & Life’ Doc Frames New Economy of Living Systems

kristyThe Power of Yin

In the documentary Collapse, Michael Ruppert puts an incredibly fine point on the fact that, upon a foundation of finite energy, we have built an economic system that demands infinite growth. He adds that we are currently at the collision point of those two forcibly exclusive ideas. Like the various …

New Hydrogen Catalyst Takes off Like a Rocket

kristyGreentech

New Hydrogen Catalyst Takes off Like a Rocket June 16, 2012 By Tina Casey 9 Comments The next generation of low-cost fuel cells could take your home off the grid and free your car from the gas pump with clean, renewable energy, and researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have …

A catalyst for social development: impact investing

kristySRI/ESG News

A catalyst for social development: impact investing SUSTAINING LIVES AND MARINE BIODIVERSITY IN INDONESIA Bali Seafood 82% of the world’s fisheries are over-exploited and under- managed, despite more than 20 international treaties protecting global fish stocks. For all their best intentions, policymakers’ focus on controlling inputs and outputs — such …

“Making it Happen” Features Education for Sustainable Development

kristyGlobal Citizen, Sustainability News

“Making it Happen” Features Education for Sustainable Development 15_July_2011: The latest issue of “Rio+20: Making It Happen,” the newsletter from the Secretariat of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), highlights: the special policy dialogue on “Education for Sustainable Development” that took place during the recent High-level Segment …

Cooperation for a Green Economy

kristyEarth Systems Science

Latest News – 11 May 2011 Featured Guest Article Cooperation for a Green Economy by Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) As_the_Commission on Sustainable Development convenes in New York, the thoughts of an increasing number of nations are turning towards next year’s Rio+20 Conference in …