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Verizon has a virtual monopoly. Lousy service. They refuse to bring their vaunted FIOS or high speed Internet service out here. Even though they bring it to a subdivision across the road. Comcast will not bring their wires to our farm either. So we live with satellite and balky wireless broadband. Pain in the ass!
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About energy benchmarks for energy modeling. There appear to be several separate national energy codes, several California standards, and a growing number of benchmark levels. (ASHRAE/ANSI 90.1, CalGreen, California Title 24, CEC, HERS, Energy Star ratings, etc) The situation is confusing a lot of folks. Blame the engineers AND politics. Politics is in everything these [...]
I went looking for news on energy efficiency and found this: Private Investment in Green Sectors tops $2 trillion. This was between 2007 and 2009. There is a bright future in green high-performance buildings, it seems. Hazel Henderson, D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, former US government technology advisor and president of Ethical Markets Media said, “this new total [...]
This deep recession has people looking for new ways to protect or increase their income. Increasing the energy efficiency of existing buildings is an obvious way to do it. For owner /operators, its the way to increase profits and be more competitive. For families it saves money and leaves more to spend on more enjoyable [...]
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Some of my right-wing friends and neighbors think that Occupy Wall Street is part of a left wing conspiracy. They believe the idiot cable pundits who say that OWS wants to get something for nothing. They think that OWS is driven by hatred of free markets because they chose to focus on Wall Street first. [...]
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I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Thomas Jefferson in a letter to James Madison ( January 30, 1787); (referring to Shays’ Rebellion, an uprising over financial problems following the revolution, just before the Constitutional convention [...]
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Daniel Burnham’s birthday today (1846), architect of wonderful buildings and master planner for Chicago’s Columbian World Exposition of 1893, among other things. Burnham said Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a [...]
Its hard anymore to find a politician as successful and honorable as President Clinton. And he supports energy efficiency! He knows government policy should support it and not the status quo of oil and coal. By the way, most of those politicians oughta forget it and get a job! I am driven to help building [...]
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The top two tenant complaints are “too hot and too cold, according to BOMA surveys. This is also a reason why tenants move out. Building systems need to be tuned up. Regular recommended service makes sure that individual units run correctly, but often does not address the total picture. Not only do machines and “gizmos” [...]
E.F. Schumaker had it right in his 1970s book, “Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered”. The best results come from empowering individuals and smaller organizations (ie, neighborhoods and towns). This is because it has always been easier to get things done with smaller groups or networks than the larger. The cliche “Think globally, [...]
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