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Clinton foundation energy efficiency plan: An offset by any other name ... New financial instruments may one day plug cities' building codes into global carbon market	Adam Stein	17 May 2007	Gristmill
The William J. Clinton foundation has arranged billions in financing to help a coalition of sixteen cities cut urban emissions by applying a range of energy efficiency measures to aging buildings. Efficiency measures tends to get lumped in under the heading of conservation, but they really deserve to be their own full-fledged category of solutions to global warming. If conservation is simply doing less of a polluting activity, efficiency is doing the same activity with ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, carbon offsets, energy, energy efficiency, green building, placemaking (all these topics)

Well that sucks Unused mobile power adapters still use energy	Jerome Woody	14 May 2007	Gristmill
As part of an announcement by Nokia regarding new green initiatives and features for future phones, the company revealed a little-known fact about mobile phone adapters: Kirsi Sormunen, Vice-President of Environmental Affairs at Nokia said, 'Around two-thirds of the energy used by a mobile phone is lost when it is unplugged after charging but the charger itself is left in a live socket. We want to reduce this waste and are working on reducing to an absolute minimum t ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, green living, tech (all these topics)

Bush 'responding' to Supreme Court Not exactly	David Roberts	14 May 2007	Gristmill
Wondering what to make of this? President Bush responded to a Supreme Court environmental ruling by settling on regulatory changes that don't need congressional approval, the White House said Monday. Bush is announcing the steps he is directing his administration to take in a Rose Garden appearance later Monday. Read on down a little bit: In his State of the Union address in January, Bush set a goal of reducing gas consumption by 20 percent over 10 years. Und ...
Topics: Big Ag, Big Oil, energy, energy efficiency, George Bush, litigation (all these topics)

Bulb news All about lighting	David Roberts	11 May 2007	Gristmill
The WorldWatch Institute discusses a burst of new efforts from various and sundry governments to ban incandescent bulbs. Wal-Mart is using its considerable monopsony powers for good, forcing its suppliers to substantially reduce the amount of mercury in CFL bulbs. (Cool about the Wal-Mart solar buy too, huh?) CFL schmeeFL. LEDs are coming on strong!
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, green living, green products, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Six months to a trimmer footprint How to reduce your household energy consumption, easy-like	Charles Komanoff	01 May 2007	Gristmill
Last Sunday's New York Times honed in on the dubious practice of Americans buying carbon offsets to brand themselves carbon-neutral. Andy Revkin, the paper's global-warming reporter, quoted me saying, "There isn't a single American household above the poverty line that couldn't cut their CO2 at least 25 percent in six months through a straightforward series of fairly simple and terrifically cost-effective measures." My claim has hit a nerve. Despi ...
Topics: carbon offsets, climate, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)

Speaking of CFLs ...	David Roberts	01 May 2007	Gristmill
This is funny.
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, green living, green products, insanity, lying liars (all these topics)

CFLs and marital bliss ... not Not tonight ... your CFLs give me a headache	JMG	30 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I have to say, this story has sure played out at my house, where my bride lovingly (I hope) refers to me, in moments of teasing (I hope), as 'Mr. Conserver Man' for what she considers to be an excessive devotion to making the electric meter spin more slowly and for my habit of figuring out ways to avoid using the car. But the 100w incandescent in her bedside lamp says that I'm at least smart enough to know when to quit:Fluorescent Bulbs Are Known to Zap Domestic Tranquillity ...
Topics: energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living, green products (all these topics)

Tighten Up Plans to boost energy efficiency start getting traction in Congress	Amanda Griscom Little	23 Apr 2007	Muckraker
What's not to love about energy efficiency? It's the paradigmatic win-win scenario -- save money, protect the climate and broader environment, and reduce reliance on unsavory sources of energy, all in one fell swoop. As efficiency guru Amory Lovins puts it [PDF], "Using energy more efficiently offers an economic bonanza -- not because of the benefits of stopping global warm ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, Congress, Ed Markey, energy, energy efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Material intensity Indirect greenhouse-gas savings	Gar Lipow	18 Apr 2007	Gristmill
(Part of the No Sweat Solutions series.) Previously I pointed out that efficiency, doing more with less, is a key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. (A lot of people on Gristmill are fans of conservation, doing less with less. I have nothing against this, so long as it is a voluntary choice, but I won't be spending a lot of time on it.) Normally, when people think of efficiency they think of direct savings -- insulating homes, electric cars, and so on. That is: ma ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, energy, energy efficiency, green building, placemaking (all these topics)

On efficiency There's more room than you think	Gar Lipow	17 Apr 2007	Gristmill
(Part of the No Sweat Solutions series.) As almost everyone who studies the subject concludes, one key to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is efficiency. Renewable sources generally provide energy at a slightly higher market price than fossil fuels. Oh, there are exceptions: passive solar heating, wind electricity, biofuel from waste. But overall, if we get all our energy from low-emitting sources, we will spend more overall per BTU. If we can use those BTUs efficient ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Beyond carbon taxes A follow-up	Gar Lipow	12 Apr 2007	Gristmill
My last article made the point that in fighting climate chaos, only a refundable carbon tax, one that returns revenues directly to the population, mitigates regressivity in way that benefits those hit hardest by such a tax. It concludes by pointing out that just about everyone who pays serious attention to the problem of climate chaos concludes that carbon taxes or cap and trade systems -- methods of putting a price on carbon -- cannot by themselves solve the problem. T ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, energy, energy efficiency, politics (all these topics)

Power ballad Canucks 1, US 0	Kate Sheppard	05 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Turns out that springing forward a month early didn't save any electricity at all in the U.S. From Reuters: But other than forcing millions of drowsy American workers and school children into the dark, wintry weather three weeks early, the move appears to have had little impact on power usage. 'We haven't seen any measurable impact,' said Jason Cuevas, spokesman for Southern Co., one of the nation's largest power companies, echoing comments from several large ut ...
Topics: Canada, energy, energy efficiency, United States (all these topics)

How Many Queens Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb? Britain's Queen Elizabeth studying how to green her palaces		03 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
How Many Queens Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb? Britain's Queen Elizabeth studying how to green her palaces Word on the street is HRH the Queen of England Her Majesty With the Breath of Baby's Breath Elizabeth is looking at ways to lessen the impact of her palaces. Proposals being floated include switching Buckingham Palace's 40,000 lights to efficient bulbs, build ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Outback Darkhouse Sydney, Australia, to put the lights out for climate change		27 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Outback Darkhouse Sydney, Australia, to put the lights out for climate change Last month, Australian officials announced that traditional incandescent light bulbs would be phased out by 2010 and replaced by compact fluorescents and other efficient lighting technologies. But Sydney is getting a jump on the energy-conservation action: this Saturday, bulbs across the city will be going dark for one hour. More than ...
Topics: Australia, energy, energy efficiency, news (all these topics)

Journalism, wonkery, advocacy, nuclear power, and the kitchen sink Join me for some navel gazing!	David Roberts	14 Mar 2007	Gristmill
There is sometimes a fine line between opposing something and not supporting it; between believing that something should be advocated against and believing it should not be advocated for; between believing that something is bad and believing that there are several better options. Two examples come to mind. One is adaptation, as opposed to mitigation, in response to climate change. (Much more on that soon.) The other is nuclear power. Readers of this blog probably th ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, nuclear power (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)

The Hill Is Alive With the Sound of Musing Pelosi and Boxer aim to green Capitol Hill		06 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
The Hill Is Alive With the Sound of Musing Pelosi and Boxer aim to green Capitol Hill Tired of talking the energy-efficiency talk in an eco-unfriendly setting, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Barbara Boxer (both D-Calif.) are aiming to green Capitol Hill. On Friday, Pelosi wrote a letter directing the House chief administrative officer to look into implementing &qu ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, energy, energy efficiency, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, news, politics (all these topics)

Group Hug Leading tech competitors bury the hatchet to improve energy efficiency		28 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Group Hug Leading tech competitors bury the hatchet to improve energy efficiency Hold onto your geek hat: 11 leading tech companies have partnered to reduce the energy used by servers and data centers. The Green Grid -- made up of foes including Intel, IBM, Microsoft, AMD, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard -- thinks data-center efficiency "is the most significant issue fa ...
Topics: business, energy, energy efficiency, greening biz operations, news, tech (all these topics)

Yes We Ken London mayor unveils comprehensive climate-change plan		28 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Yes We Ken London mayor unveils comprehensive climate-change plan London Mayor Ken Livingstone unveiled a Climate Change Action Plan yesterday in hopes of making the English capital the greenest city in the world. Under the scheme, London will switch 25 percent of its power supply to local generation, and businesses that invest in green technology will earn merit badges ...
Topics: climate, electricity grid, energy, energy efficiency, London, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

The little green computer that could British-built server up for big award	Jerome Woody	22 Feb 2007	Gristmill
We here at Grist love computers, even if sometimes they don't love us back. Every once in a while, a piece of technology comes out that you can't help but get excited about (and I'm not talking about the iPhone).The internet has physical houses in which information, services, and sites like this one are stored. These computers, known as servers, are the 'always on' engines that power the constant activity. Due to the mission-critical nature of such machines, performance ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, tech (all these topics)

Shockingly funny PSA to raise energy conservation awareness Watch	Jerome Woody	22 Jan 2007	Gristmill
The Energy Star Alliance is running a public service announcement profiling a fictional family powering their house with static electricity. It's a pretty funny commercial; I wish I knew the ad firm that did it.
Topics: messaging, energy, energy efficiency, TV (all these topics)

Lighting the way Wal-Mart pushes CFLs	Kate Sheppard	03 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Wal-Mart has has started a new campaign to push compact fluorescent light bulbs in their massive retail stores, according to an article published in the New York Times yesterday. Though only a reported 6 percent of homes use CFLs currently, Wal-Mart hopes to sell 100 million of the bulbs each year by 2008.'The environment is begging for the Wal-Mart business model,' Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott Jr. told the Times.Just the latest in the ongoing greening of Wal-Mart. Howeve ...
Topics: consumerism, energy, energy efficiency, shopping, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Top ten breakthroughs that could help cool the greenhouse Read and be dazzled by the techno-futurism	Gar Lipow	12 Dec 2006	Gristmill
David asked contributors for end-of-year lists. Since I normally focus on conservative assumptions, I thought I'd use it as an excuse to look at future breakthroughs and cost improvements. I was going to weasel by calling these "possibilities," but instead I decided to use the time-tested technique of public psychics: I'll call them predictions, crow over any that come true, and pretend the rest never happened. 1. Power storage that will make electric cars ...
Topics: cars, climate change adaptation, electric vehicles, energy, energy efficiency, hybrids, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

A double dose of dorkery Eco-tech stuff	David Roberts	08 Dec 2006	Gristmill
In one of my other lives, I'm a bit of a tech/computer/gadget geek, though by the high standards of online dorkdom, a mere amateur. Those interests don't overlap with my gristmillian preoccupations all that often -- but today, twice: First, an amusing post on ForeignPolicy.com reveals that the avatars used in MMORPGs use as much energy -- in hardware and server cycles -- as the typical Brazilian. (If the preceding sentence means nothing to you, well, perhaps it's time ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, green products, innovation, tech (all these topics)

Efficiency is the new new black New report say so	David Roberts	01 Dec 2006	Gristmill
I meant to write a few days ago about the new report (PDF) from the McKinsey Global Institute which says that ... are you sitting down? ... efficiency is the fastest, cheapest way to cut global energy consumption. As Keanu would say: woah. Anyway, Joel Makower's got a nice post about it, so go read that.
Topics: energy, energy efficiency (all these topics)

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