A Ladder of Ambition for Zero Net Energy (ZNE) Buildings
Zero Net Enerrgy embraces several related but distinct goals. This blog identifies four levels of increasing ambition, like rungs on a ladder and suggests that ...
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We Can Transform U.S. Industry
In its detailed and ambitious report, the Select Committee offers dozens of solutions and policy recommendations. If implemented, these recommendations would me...
COVID-19 and Climate Change: Creating the Political Will
The global response to the COVID-19 crisis has shown that strong policy actions that seemed infeasible months ago were in fact implemented across the globe to a...
Industrial Efficiency Can Restore Jobs and Competitiveness
Programs to increase the efficiency of energy use in industry can speed the economic recovery from COVID-19 while continuing to cut climate pollution emissions....
Energy Efficiency as a Climate Solution: Our Goal for 2020
Energy efficiency is the cornerstone of any country’s plan to fight the climate crisis. It is the cheapest option available, and one that as often as not comes...
Summoning the Political Will
Among Washington DC lobbyists who oppose environmental legislation, one of the most common tactics for squelching an idea is to suggest it isn’t going anywhere...