Sentences with phrase «efficient transportation efficiency»

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) included several key funding opportunities for energy efficiency projects at the local level, including for the first time monies for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program.1 Funding was additionally provided for state energy programs, weatherization assistance, and efficient transportation efficiency among other initiatives.

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If it is objected that production in and for small communities would be less efficient than large - scale centralized production, it could be answered, first, that when the true costs of transportation are calculated, this may not be true, and second, that efficiency in that sense is less important than a good life in a self - reliant community that has some control over its own destiny.

«To the extent that you can make things more efficient and use those efficiencies to invest in the capital program for the state's transportation infrastructure, that's a good thing,» said Mike Elmendorf, president and CEO of Associated General Contractors, a trade group that includes road builders.

For example, I have voted to improve fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, to provide communities with funding to expand public transportation, to provide tax credits to expand the use of wind and solar technologies, as well as expanding access to grants and tax credits for homeowners to weatherize their homes and purchase more fuel efficient vehicles.

Priority areas of focus for this Initiative may include: energy efficiency, smart grid, second - generation biofuels, and clean coal technologies including carbon capture and storage; solar energy and energy efficient building and advanced battery technologies; and sustainable transportation, wind energy, and micro-hydro power.

The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) leads U.S. researchers and other partners in making transportation cleaner and more efficient through solutions that put electric drive vehicles on the road and replace oil with clean domestic fuels.

For both farming and energy (generation and efficiency), as also several other sectors, such as transportation, energy - efficient building, decentralized manufacture, recycling, forestry, and others, the potential is huge.

The Office of School Finance is responsible for the development and administration of fiscal standards and other initiatives to promote or achieve efficiency within public schools; the administration of the state aid system for schools in accordance with applicable statutes; the development and maintenance of fiscal policy for all public school districts; and the development and maintenance of procedures for safe and efficient student transportation services.

When it comes to stopping and reversing the trend of rising energy use in the transportation sector, TEF project researchers see changes to the built environment, strategies to decrease personal travel, improvements in energy efficiency, and replacing truck freight with more energy - efficient rail and marine modes as holding the greatest potential.

Industrial foods benefit from certain efficiencies afforded by the highly developed nature of Big Ag's distribution networks... But there's no reason that local distribution networks can't be rebuilt to improve transportation efficiency... In any case, efficient distribution networks for non-industrial foods won't be reestablished if local farmers don't have consumer support in the interim — purchasing locally produced foods is a good way to provide this support to ensure that local networks will be improved.

Important to note is the comprehensive breadth of sectors that fall under the «new energy» concept - its not just renewables such as wind, solar and biomass, but also energy efficiency, nuclear, smart (and strong) grid, transportation, unconventional natural gas, and more efficient use of fossil fuels.

At the same time, cycling — which is the most efficient form of transportation — and energy efficiency, are by far the cheapest means of addressing a wide range of issues, from climate change, to congestion to high energy prices.Cycling is an Overlooked Solution In fact, even compared to mass transit, cycling requires less road maintenance (and hence taxpayer money), takes up less space, and results in far less emissions and noise.

The most effective policy for reducing CO2 emissions and oil imports from transportation is to spur the development and sale of more efficient vehicles with strict efficiency standards while increasing the cost of driving with strong fuel taxes.

The 2016 International Energy Efficiency Scorecard from the nonprofit American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy, or ACEEE, looked at performance in buildings, industry, transportation and overall national energy efficiencEfficiency Scorecard from the nonprofit American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy, or ACEEE, looked at performance in buildings, industry, transportation and overall national energy efficiencyefficiency efforts.