Energy Star tax credits
Check out Thom Hartmann’s excellent book “Unequal Protection“. Excellent treatise on how corporate politics has dominated the nation going back to before the revolution. In fact, the American revolution was brought on by the American resentment of a British massive company, the “East India Company”, owned by the royal family, which suppressed the [...]
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“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children [...] I am worried now. A new report just came out showing that 85% of CMMS (Computerized Management and Maintenance System) software being purchased is not being used. This is software that is supposed to be used by facilities managers to streamline their work, but apparently without much eagerness. An excellent commentary in this [...] Some people in communications, and in the real estate and investment arena, have been making assertions that green buildings have economic benefits not worth the trouble and expense. This is to imply that improving energy efficiency and measuring the results is not worth the trouble. I say B.S. I am not interested in casting [...] Let us go back to the tried and proven. The Bush sponsored tax cuts did not do what they were supposed to do. We forgot to take Teddys advice, as quoted below. The tax cuts did not increase our national economic vitality one wit. They should be allowed to expire [...] The latest numbers are that US buildings consume $320 billion/year in energy. 2/5 of all the energy used in the US. And about 40% of the energy (costing $120 billion/year) is used in buildings for HVAC. Some of the 2009 stats HVAC designs that I have incorporated recently into my office [...] I am concerned about a terrible Lack of Confidence in our economy and society: We must keep our heads high and continue to strive. The terrible danger is fear. Fear is paralyzing. I have spent many hours this month getting criticized and rejected for trying to get ‘er done. In [...] I would like to share this 2006 excerpt from the Building Design and Construction magazine white paper on the bottom line of building commissioning. To put some solid numbers on benefits of commissioning, Evan Mills, PhD, and colleagues at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Portland Energy Conservation, and Texas A&M University (Energy Systems Laboratory) reviewed published [...] This is a bit of deja vu about energy. Like the last energy crisis. But now they say it is different. This New York Times article, “A Surplus of Energy That Might Even Last” is provocative. It says this may be an inflection point in our economy and its dependence on energy. I [...] This doesn’t need any explanation. LEED certified office buildings excel A picture is worth a thousand words. Additional editorial on LEED and Energy [...] |
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