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Energy efficiency: EP100 hails one billion tonnes of corporate carbon savings

Business Green

Swiss Re said it had reached its EP100 goal five years ahead of schedule after committing to double energy productivity by 2020 against a 2005, but still managed to deliver a 16 per cent improvement last year.

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Canada’s power grid is pretty clean. Here’s why it needs to be cleaner

Clean Energy Canada

It includes the people who make our homes waste less energy: insulators and HVAC operators. It also more or less marked the end of Ontario’s smog days (of which there were 53 in 2005). To which our organization, Clean Energy Canada, so often replies: actually, the clean-energy sector is bigger and broader than that.

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Sunlight-Reflecting ‘Cool Walls’ Can Save Building Owners Big Money, Study Says

GreenTechMedia

cool walls could lead to annual HVAC energy costs savings of up to 11 percent for standalone retail stores, 8.3 Cool roofs, which became a required measure in 2005 for low-slope commercial buildings and in 2008 for some single-family homes under California’s Title 24 building energy-efficiency standards, are now commonplace.

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A history of sustainable energy efforts at the White House

AGreenLiving

When the Clintons moved into office and the residence, they committed to “Greening the White House,” which included installing energy-efficient windows, light bulbs and a new HVAC system. Here they provided hot water until the end of their useful life in 2005.