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05/24/2014

ExxonMobil says energy efficiency is the biggest future energy source, not oil or gas.

Energy efficiency technology will save 500 quadrillion British thermal units over the next 30 years, said Ted Pirog, an energy analyst with Exxon Mobil Corp.

10/31/2012

A low-flow showerhead uses about 2.5 gallons of water per minute (GPM) as opposed to 6 GPM from old showerheads. That means you can save 35 gallons of water during a 10-minute shower, which saves your furnace from heating more water, too.

04/12/2012

Iron, steel, and aluminum are metals that can be recycled over and over. Metals are not renewable resources, i.e. their supply will run out. The 36 billion aluminum cans put into landfills last year were valued at over $600 million.

03/29/2012

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On March 21, 2012, Congressmen David McKinley (R-WV) and Peter Welch (D-VT) introduced the "Home Owner Managing Energy Savings Act of 2012" (HOMES Act). This bill creates a new performance-based existing homes rebate program for homeowners to improve the energy performance of their homes. RESNET ap...

03/29/2012

1. Clean energy is competitive with other types of energy
2. Clean energy creates three times more jobs than fossil fuels
3. Clean energy improves grid reliability
4. Clean energy investment has surpassed investments in fossil fuels
5. Investments in clean energy are cost effective
6. Fossil fuels have gotten 75 times more subsidies than clean energy

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by Adam James Clean energy should play a central role in revitalizing our economy, putting Americans back to work, and keeping America on the cutting edge of innovation and growth. Recently a slew of misguided attacks on the merits of clean energy have exchanged petty partisanship for hard facts. He...

03/28/2012

Green Fact: A glass bottle never decomposes. Since glass is recyclable over and over again, it's good common sense to recycle as much glass as possible.

03/22/2012

Recycling one aluminum can can save enough energy to power a television for 3 hours. Aluminum cans can be recycled an infinite number of times.

03/11/2012

Waste Heat (heat billowing out of industrial smokestacks and from gas processing flares) can be captured to generate enough emission free electricity to power over 10 million American homes (more than all of the electricity developed over the last 30 years from photovoltaics). -TAS Energy

03/05/2012

The average cost of saving a kilowatt-hour through efficiency is 1.7 cents per kilowatt-hour. The cost of generating any new kilowatt-hour of electricity today would be over 10 cents per kilowatt-hour...energy efficiency is a business we want to be in. -John Bryson, Secretary of Commerce

03/04/2012

First Brownsville, now Austin...let's go Houston!

The Austin City Council has approved a ban on disposable plastic and paper bags at checkout counters for retailers. Reusable bags that are allowed include those made of cloth, durable materials or thicker paper and plastic bags with handles.

03/04/2012

DOE-ARPA Interactive Project Map highlighting DOE funded projects across the county.

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03/01/2012

Starting the 2nd day of the Department of Energy's Residential Energy Efficiency Building America Stakeholder Meeting here in Austin, TX. It's great to be here with the best and the brightest energy experts from across the country! Follow our live-tweets at: https://twitter.com/ #!/BellaEnergyTx

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