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(Building) Codes, COVID-19, Climate Change, and Catastrophe
The pandemic’s undefined period of time at home and away from office buildings and schools brings to mind thoughts of workers throughout the energy sector – particularly those unemployed or underemployed: building and home inspectors and evaluators, HVAC and renewable...
Electric vehicles: An efficient choice for transportation and the grid
Today, the transportation sector is the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, as well as a significant emitter of nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and other air toxins that contribute to negative health impacts and climate change. There...
Improve Your Home’s Comfort with a Virtual Energy Assessment
Working from home, teaching children from your kitchen table, enrolling for classes online, and/or streaming more entertainment? COVID-19 means residential energy usage is higher than normal. Homes that are less efficient may lead to particularly high spikes in...
Getting Local Governments Involved in EE
When you hear energy efficiency, what do you think of? A broad and ambiguous term? Energy efficiency is being able to perform the same task, but using less energy to do so. It is a simple, low-cost way to reduce carbon emissions and energy consumption while also...
Efficiency Can Help Make Our Schools Safer
The pandemic presented unprecedented challenges in our school systems. What should have been another year of school plays, book reports, and graduation ceremonies was upended by COVID-19. Any hope that fall would signal a return to normal faded as the virus continued...
Pandemic Hurts Efficiency Jobs but You Can Still Make Energy-Saving Upgrades
The unprecedented health and economic impacts from the COVID-19 crisis are affecting us in innumerable ways. One result of spending more time at home to slow the spread of the coronavirus has been increased residential energy consumption and utility bills. And while...