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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Efficiency first! Part two The urgency to begin CO2 reduction via efficiency	Guest author	29 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Ned Ford, Energy Chair of the Ohio Chapter of the Sierra Club and a member of the Club's national Global Warming and Energy Committee. Ford has been actively promoting electric utility efficiency strategies since 1983. This is the second in a series (first here). ----- If what you want to do is solve global warming, the core strategy is energy efficiency. Efficiency may have displaced more than half of all the new growth in electr ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, electricity, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Interview with Thomas Casten, part three Why efficiency is the key to CO2 reduction	David Roberts	15 Aug 2007	Gristmill
DR: The conservative argument on global warming is that CO2 emissions are a good indicator of economic activity. They rise and fall together. Thus, fighting global warming is a secret UN plot to hobble the American economy relative to China and India. That's Inhofe's theory, anyway. TC: He's the only elected official in Washington that might possibly be stupider than the man in the White House. Even people that very much want to do something about global ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Marrying efficiency and renewables A match made in heaven?	Joseph Romm	13 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Energy efficiency and renewable power together are better than either alone, according to a recent report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the American Council on Renewable Energy. Not a shocking conclusion, but an important one, especially in a world where it seems that all types of zero-carbon power are competing against each other for funding. The report finds that synergies between renewables and efficiency would cut greenhouse-gas em ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable energy (all these topics)

Sustainability gets a warmer embrace from U.S. companies Mindy S. Lubber of CERES looks at how far we've come and what the future might hold	Grist	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill
To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the GreenMoney Journal asked leaders in the realms of green business and socially responsible investing to forecast 15 years into the future. How green will our economy be in 2022? GreenMoney's anniversary issue features responses from Amy Domini of Domini Social Investments, Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Farm, futurist Hazel Henderson, and others. Mindy Lubber. Here, reprinted with permission, is a view from Mindy S. Lubbe ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, United States (all these topics)

A Little Light Music U.S., E.U. push phaseout of incandescent bulbs, U.K. gets serious about carbon		14 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
A Little Light Music U.S., E.U. push phaseout of incandescent bulbs, U.K. gets serious about carbon The world is seeing the energy-efficient light: a U.S. coalition including Philips Lighting and the Natural Resources Defense Council will push to phase out incandescent bulbs by 2016. ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, European Union, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

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