Sentences with phrase «energy design efforts»

After we do our best to minimize energy consumption through energy - conserving design (high levels of insulation, high - performance windows, and such), passive solar heating, passive cooling strategies, and daylighting should dominate our energy design efforts.

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With a personal desire and eye for design and innovation, Shaul has focused his entrepreneurial energy into the emerging technology industry by founding various innovative startups and startup incubators around the U.S. Initiating efforts include being co-founder of OfficePort, a co-working business center with two locations in Kansas City and one in Chicago.

In order to save traders time, effort and energy they would normally spend trying to follow and analyze the market, these companies have designed software programs and applications dedicated to analyzing and interpreting these market trends.

That research led to improved gearbox designs, reducing the overall cost of wind energy and showing how collaborative industry efforts and federal support for R&D can resolve performance challenges.

The Champaign, IL manufacturing facility of Silgan Closures has been awarded the prestigious 2017 Illinois Governor's Sustainability Award recognizing the plant's efforts designed to improve safety, minimize waste, cut energy consumption and lower emissions.

These features make it easier to document energy efficiency efforts, monitor consumption and design power - conscious procurement efforts.

In Oswego County, Grassman Energy was awarded $ 716,500 toward its efforts to begin design and manufacturing of wind turbines of the sort that can be seen at Carousel Center and atop the State University College at Oswego.

He claims that preliminary measurements of how muscle groups work in people using his shovel instead of a conventional one show that his design saves a lot of energy: it can, he says, reduce the effort of shifting a truckload of mulch by at least 30 per cent.

The collaborative effort found that the quantum dots, which have a unique core - shell design, efficiently produced low - energy photons in the visible spectrum when energized with a beam of electrons.

In an effort to remove the robots from their battery - shackles, Baughman and colleagues have designed two types of artificial muscle that also act as fuel cells — converting chemical energy to mechanical movement.

Sept. 19, 2017 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will be part of a multi-lab effort to apply high - performance computing to U.S. - based industry's discovery, design and development of materials for severe environments under a new initiative announced today by the Department of Energy (DOE).

Collaborative for High Performance Schools, San Francisco, CA Facilitates the design and construction of energy - and resource - efficient schools in an effort to increase student performance while protecting the environment.

Provided through the Education Funding Agency, CIF is designed to address health and safety issues in school buildings, as well as supporting expansion projects and efforts to improve energy efficiency.

The disciplines of architecture and design have tended to concentrate their efforts on reduction of energy use and CO2 emissions.

The Prima Bathing System is designed to produce a clean coat in the shortest amount of time using minimal water, shampoo and physical effort, saving groomers» time and energy.

-- Climate impacts: global temperatures, ice cap melting, ocean currents, ENSO, volcanic impacts, tipping points, severe weather events — Environment impacts: ecosystem changes, disease vectors, coastal flooding, marine ecosystem, agricultural system — Government actions: US political views, world - wide political views, carbon tax / cap - and - trade restrictions, state and city efforts — Reducing GHGs: + electric power systems: fossil fuel use, conservation, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, tidal, other + transportation sector: conservation, mass transit, high speed rail, air travel, auto / truck (mileage issues, PHEVs, EVs, biofuels, hydrogen) + architectural structure design: home / office energy use, home / office conservation, passive solar, other

She calls for a design revolution, given how the current slow effort to build out a western - style sanitation system requiring enormous amounts of water and energy is not tenable, particularly for the poor.

The serious deficiencies highlighted by these results suggest that well - designed efforts to improve the public's understanding of energy use and savings could pay large dividends.

Using a supplier sustainability platform and emissions reductions toolkit, Walmart encourages its suppliers to focus their efforts on what their data tells them are the most important areas: energy, agriculture, waste, packaging, deforestation and product use and design.

The report outlines areas where USCA states will focus collective efforts, including to expand clean energy finance tools, modernize the power sector, design energy efficient buildings, develop a green transportation system, build climate resilient infrastructure, and protect natural resources.

After successfully passing a budget amendment back in May that basically forbids the Pentagon from acknowledging climate science — despite the fact that the Department of Defense considers doing so to be vital to national security — his newest effort prohibits both the U.S. Department of Energy and the Army Corps of Engineers from spending «to design, implement, administer or carry out specified assessments regarding climate change.»

Green Buildings and Birds: Through our efforts, the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program adopted a pilot credit for reducing glass collisions, LEED Pilot Credit 55.

In efforts to promote energy efficient building practices, collegiate teams compete in the Challenge Home Student Design Competition

This design was developed by the Davis Energy Group in an effort to lower the price of solar water heaters.

In an effort to stabilize the climate, world governments have enacted thousands of regulations designed to suppress the use of hydrocarbon energy and instead promote the use of renewable energy.

In his discussion, McDonough will revisit his Cradle to Cradle ® - based «Five Goods» concept, which urges leaders and companies working in various stages of design to focus, funnel and evaluate their efforts based on five key categories — Good materials, Good economy, Good energy, Good water, and Good lives.

But there are signs of a significant ratcheting up of policy ambition in the design of this scheme — and SEAI's increasing efforts to stimulate profound energy savings from Ireland's existing stock via the likes of the Deep Retrofit scheme — reflecting a recognition of the need to help Irish people to invest in high levels of energy efficiency and to replace climate - destroying fossil fuels with clean, cost - effective renewable energy sources.

A zero energy building is the result of a multi-disciplined effort and thus appropriately symbolizes our integrated design philosophy and approach.

Moreover, South Carolina's investor - owned utilities continue to lobby strongly against any legislative efforts designed to spur solar energy growth in the state, more particularly when it comes to their customers investing in behind - the - meter solar power capacity.

The IMO's two big mitigation efforts are Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) and the Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP).

The house design and development was a collaborative effort between the owner, Ed Gaddy; the architect, Miche Booz; the builder, Taz Ezzat; the PHIUS consultant, Michael Hindle; the LBC consultant, Peter Doo; the energy consultants, David Peabody and Izumi Kitajima; and the natural landscape architects, Lauren Wheeler and Mary Sper.

As part of its efforts, the State has developed clean energy programs designed to aggressively reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

To do this, Gold Standard designs the strongest processes that maximize the impact of efforts to deliver clean energy and water, responsibly manage land and forests, and transform the lives of the world's poor.

«The evaluation of the consumption data proves that the efforts made by the City of Heidelberg to design an entire city district to a high standard in terms of energy efficiency based on future - oriented specifications and corresponding quality assurance have been tremendously successful,» says Søren Peper of the Passive House Institute, who was in charge of the monitoring project.

From the 1991 «Ice Campaign» run by the coal and utility industries to the Marshall Institute's bogus «Study» of 1998 (which was designed to resemble a National Academy of Sciences document) to the recent efforts of ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy to eviscerate efforts to address the climate crisis, in tandem with the Bush White House, the fossil fuel lobby and its ideological supporters have waged a relentless campaign of deception and disinformation to confuse people about the reality of warming - driven climate change.

This document brings report the key messages that emerged from the Third International Off - grid Renewable Energy Conference (IOREC 2016), including the importance of (1) mainstreaming off - grid renewable energy in national rural electrification strategies, (2) creating an ecosystem to accelerate deployment, (3) designing dedicated policies and regulations for the off - grid sector, (4) unlocking capital for energy access, (5) identifying the right business models for deploying off - grid renewables, (6) innovating to improve accessibility, reliability and range of electricity services, (7) strengthening the sustainability of energy access efforts and maximizing benefits and (8) harnessing the cross-sector development impact of off - grid renewEnergy Conference (IOREC 2016), including the importance of (1) mainstreaming off - grid renewable energy in national rural electrification strategies, (2) creating an ecosystem to accelerate deployment, (3) designing dedicated policies and regulations for the off - grid sector, (4) unlocking capital for energy access, (5) identifying the right business models for deploying off - grid renewables, (6) innovating to improve accessibility, reliability and range of electricity services, (7) strengthening the sustainability of energy access efforts and maximizing benefits and (8) harnessing the cross-sector development impact of off - grid renewenergy in national rural electrification strategies, (2) creating an ecosystem to accelerate deployment, (3) designing dedicated policies and regulations for the off - grid sector, (4) unlocking capital for energy access, (5) identifying the right business models for deploying off - grid renewables, (6) innovating to improve accessibility, reliability and range of electricity services, (7) strengthening the sustainability of energy access efforts and maximizing benefits and (8) harnessing the cross-sector development impact of off - grid renewenergy access, (5) identifying the right business models for deploying off - grid renewables, (6) innovating to improve accessibility, reliability and range of electricity services, (7) strengthening the sustainability of energy access efforts and maximizing benefits and (8) harnessing the cross-sector development impact of off - grid renewenergy access efforts and maximizing benefits and (8) harnessing the cross-sector development impact of off - grid renewables.

New Orleans, LA (October 16, 2012)-- As part of the continuing effort to promote energy efficiency, the City of New Orleans announced today that the NOLA Wise initiative will expand to include commercial services and loan program designed to help local businesses make energy - saving improvements.

That effort merits a story in itself but what makes it even more noteworthy is that the people of Greensburg, Kansas have chosen to move from ordinary to extraordinary... Imagine a community for 1500 people designed as a state of the art working model for green building and energy, hybrid design efficiency and genuine intelligent design.

For its efforts to leave no good turn unrecycled, the Olympic Village is hauling home enough Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold and platinum medals to make an Olympic contender green with envy.

The ENERGY STAR Change a Light, Change the World Campaign is designed to bring individuals and organizations together in a nationwide effort to save energy and help fight global warming, starting by encouraging a switch to lighting that has earned the government's ENERGY STAR label for energy efficENERGY STAR Change a Light, Change the World Campaign is designed to bring individuals and organizations together in a nationwide effort to save energy and help fight global warming, starting by encouraging a switch to lighting that has earned the government's ENERGY STAR label for energy efficenergy and help fight global warming, starting by encouraging a switch to lighting that has earned the government's ENERGY STAR label for energy efficENERGY STAR label for energy efficenergy efficiency.

An exploratory effort that's testing ways to scale, leverage, and spread RMI's proven design techniques that let engineers, architects, and clients achieve radical energy efficiency at lower cost by designing buildings, factories, and vehicles as whole systems.

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High - demand jobs within this field include construction workers building green homes and businesses, architects designing such buildings, PR specialists promoting green efforts, agricultural inspectors ensuring the quality of meat and produce, and electricians installing more energy efficient fixtures.

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