From: Reuters - 03/29/2010
Architect Foster sees future in green desert city
Abu Dhabi building carbon-neutral city
March 28, 2010 10:00 AMAbu Dhabi to invest $15 billion in green energy
January 21, 2008 08:38 AMUAE invests US$15 billion in future energy solutions
January 31, 2008 09:03 AMBritain, Abu Dhabi to sign clean energy accord
DUBAI (Reuters) - Imagine a city of 50,000 with no cars, no carbon, no waste, a green city of the future. Now imagine it in the Gulf desert, where summer temperatures can hit 50 degrees and 24-hour air conditioning is a way of life.
British architect Norman Foster has his work cut out in Masdar City, a project the Abu Dhabi government hopes will bring the United Arab Emirates' carbon footprint down to size.
"We are involved in a number of projects in Abu Dhabi and this is without question the most idealistic. It is probably the most idealistic project in the world today and the most relevant to any conferences from Kyoto to Davos," Foster told Reuters.
"This is not about fashion, this is about survival."
The rapid economic growth of the United Arab Emirates and fellow Gulf Arab countries flush from record oil prices comes at a time of mounting international concern over climate change.
The UAE is among the highest per capita emitters of greenhouse gas in the world but the capital Abu Dhabi announced on Monday it would be investing $15 billion in developing renewable and clean energy, including Masdar City, which is scheduled to be built in seven phases from 2008 to 2018.
To do that in a desert climate is no mean task and the formidable Foster, whose firm is behind a slew of famous designs from London's Millennium Bridge to Berlin's rebuilt Reichstag, says he went back to basics in designing Abu Dhabi's green city.
"This is a specific response to a place that is more climatically demanding in terms of achieving zero carbon. It is more difficult in the desert than in temperate environments. it would be easier in the Mediterranean or northern Europe," he said in a telephone interview.
"But I think it is all about working with nature, working with the elements and learning from traditional models."
Masdar will be a walled city in traditional Arab style. With no cars allowed, it will be a compact city, with narrow, shaded streets amenable to walking, not dissimilar to the way urban spaces were traditionally organized to shelter shoppers and pedestrians from the harsh sun of the Middle East.
It will also feature eco-friendly transport systems to ferry people around, including a light railway, unusual in a part of the world where public transport is minimal and people rely heavily on big cars.
Rather than spreading out buildings, which is common in Gulf Arab countries that have plenty of empty desert to work with, Masdar will go for density not sprawl.
It will draw its power from solar panels in a part of the world with year-round sunshine, will harness wind and thermal power and rely on photovoltaic farms, all with the aim of making it self-sustaining.
"Take Venice. You don't feel any deprivation in Venice because there are no cars. Quite the reverse. It is so attractive it is in danger from being too popular," Foster said.
"We are talking about the technology to do more with less."
Editing by Paul Casciato
2009. Copyright Environmental News Network
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Monday, March 22, 2010
A New Power Platform for The Energy Needs of Tomorrow
An Innovative Power Platform
A new industry standard allows buildings to adapt to the needs of tomorrow
By Ben Hartman
Today’s buildings are powered by traditional AC sources but populated with DC-powered devices like computers, phones, and IT equipment. Even lighting systems, which are typically AC-driven, are becoming more DC-powered as LEDs and advanced lighting controls become prevalent.
Requiring DC devices to adapt to AC building systems, however, doesn’t use power very efficiently because AC must be converted to DC at the device level. The EMerge Alliance has developed an open standard for hybrid interior power distribution systems that convert AC to DC power at the room level and distribute it to DC devices.
This upstream conversion also invites the efficient use of on-site alternative power generation or storage sources that naturally supply DC power, including solar arrays and wind micro-turbines. Matching renewable energy sources with interior energy loads like lighting, and avoiding the typical inversion to AC power, can make on-site sources 10 to 15 percent more efficient.
The EMerge Standard was released last fall, and the first EMerge products are expected to hit the market this year. EMerge applications offer:
1. Faster installation.
2. Simplified, flexible capability for moves, adds, and changes.
3. Safe use of Class 2 power levels in lieu of hard conduit Class 1 levels.
4. Ready infrastructure for upgrades to new devices without rewiring.
5. Simplified integration of renewable and other DC energy sources.
6. More efficient use of LED lighting and on-site renewables (10 to 15 percent savings in each).
The EMerge Standard defines a multi-functional, low-voltage, DC microgrid power distribution infrastructure layer that interconnects sources of power to devices in the space that draw power. Further, it defines the control systems necessary to monitor and control such devices and power sources.
An EMerge system functions physically in a way that’s similar to traditional spaces. The EMerge Standard encourages the use of interior finish infrastructure (suspended ceilings, furniture, floors, or walls) to be used for power distribution. The infrastructure incorporates electrically active bus bar components to distribute power to lighting fixtures, sensors, speakers, actuators, motors, or wireless devices. Power devices deliver 24V DC current through the infrastructure via low-voltage wiring power cable assemblies. Controls allow active components of the system to perform basic on/off, level, monitoring, and metering functions involving the power to or from those devices.
With the rapid developments in DC power line communication and wireless control protocols, it’s expected that the EMerge Standard will incorporate updates on a regular basis. The EMerge Alliance is also collaborating with groups focused on DC power in data centers. B
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A new industry standard allows buildings to adapt to the needs of tomorrow
By Ben Hartman
Today’s buildings are powered by traditional AC sources but populated with DC-powered devices like computers, phones, and IT equipment. Even lighting systems, which are typically AC-driven, are becoming more DC-powered as LEDs and advanced lighting controls become prevalent.
Requiring DC devices to adapt to AC building systems, however, doesn’t use power very efficiently because AC must be converted to DC at the device level. The EMerge Alliance has developed an open standard for hybrid interior power distribution systems that convert AC to DC power at the room level and distribute it to DC devices.
This upstream conversion also invites the efficient use of on-site alternative power generation or storage sources that naturally supply DC power, including solar arrays and wind micro-turbines. Matching renewable energy sources with interior energy loads like lighting, and avoiding the typical inversion to AC power, can make on-site sources 10 to 15 percent more efficient.
The EMerge Standard was released last fall, and the first EMerge products are expected to hit the market this year. EMerge applications offer:
1. Faster installation.
2. Simplified, flexible capability for moves, adds, and changes.
3. Safe use of Class 2 power levels in lieu of hard conduit Class 1 levels.
4. Ready infrastructure for upgrades to new devices without rewiring.
5. Simplified integration of renewable and other DC energy sources.
6. More efficient use of LED lighting and on-site renewables (10 to 15 percent savings in each).
The EMerge Standard defines a multi-functional, low-voltage, DC microgrid power distribution infrastructure layer that interconnects sources of power to devices in the space that draw power. Further, it defines the control systems necessary to monitor and control such devices and power sources.
An EMerge system functions physically in a way that’s similar to traditional spaces. The EMerge Standard encourages the use of interior finish infrastructure (suspended ceilings, furniture, floors, or walls) to be used for power distribution. The infrastructure incorporates electrically active bus bar components to distribute power to lighting fixtures, sensors, speakers, actuators, motors, or wireless devices. Power devices deliver 24V DC current through the infrastructure via low-voltage wiring power cable assemblies. Controls allow active components of the system to perform basic on/off, level, monitoring, and metering functions involving the power to or from those devices.
With the rapid developments in DC power line communication and wireless control protocols, it’s expected that the EMerge Standard will incorporate updates on a regular basis. The EMerge Alliance is also collaborating with groups focused on DC power in data centers. B
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Oregon Town Uses Geothermal Energy To Stay Warm
By JEFF BARNARD, Associated Press Writer Jeff Barnard, Associated Press Writer – Sat
Mar 20, 1:56 pm ET
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – When snow falls on this downtown of brick buildings and glass storefronts in southern Oregon, it piles up everywhere but the sidewalks. It's the first sign that this timber and ranching town is like few others.
A combination of hot rocks and water like those that created Yellowstone's geysers have been tapped by the city to keep the sidewalks toasty since the early 1990s. They also heat downtown buildings, kettles at a brewhouse, and greenhouses and keep the lights on at a college campus.
Geothermal wells in this town of 20,000 mark one of the nation's most ambitious uses of a green energy resource with a tiny carbon footprint, and could serve as a model for a still-fledgling industry that is gaining steam with $338 million in stimulus funds and more than 100 projects nationwide.
"We didn't know it was green. It just made sense," said City Manager Jeff Ball.
Geothermal energy is unknown in much of the country but accounts for 0.5 percent of the nation's energy production.
It can be seen on a snowy day in a handful of Western towns like Klamath Falls. That's because hot rock is closer to the surface here, and comes with the water needed to bring the energy to the surface. Northern California is home to the world's largest geothermal power complex. The Geysers, 75 miles north of San Francisco, produces enough electricity for 750,000 homes.
With more than 600 geothermal wells heating houses, schools and a hospital as well as turning the turbine on a small power plant, Klamath Falls shows what everyday life could be if stimulus grants and venture capitalists turn geothermal energy from a Western curiosity to a game-changing energy resource.
Until now, geothermal energy has been limited by having to find the three essentials ingredients occurring together in one place naturally: hot rock relatively close to the surface, water, and cracks in the rock that serve as a reservoir.
Those limitations go away if engineers can tame a technology known as EGS, for Enhanced Geothermal Systems.
A 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology report estimates that EGS, with support, could be producing 100 gigawatts of electricity — equivalent to 1,000 coal-fired or nuclear power plants — by 2050, and has the potential to generate a large fraction of the nation's energy needs for centuries to come.
"If we are going to try to achieve a transformational change in this country, geothermal should be part of that recipe," said Jefferson Tester, chairman of the committee that produced the report and professor of sustainable energy at Cornell University. "It's not treated that way. It's typically forgotten."
One form of EGS involves drilling thousands of feet down to reach hot rock, pumping water down to fracture the rock to create reservoirs, then sending down water that will come back up another well as hot water or steam that can spin a turbine to generate electricity.
The system can be dropped in practically anywhere that hot rocks are close enough to the surface to make drilling economical.
The major problem with EGS is the potential to create earthquakes.
Pumping water into the ground to open numerous tiny fractures in the rock for a reservoir makes the earth move — what scientists call induced seismicity. Earthquakes stopped an EGS project in the middle of Basel, Switzerland, last year, and an international protocol has been developed for monitoring and mitigating earthquake problems.
As long as the wells are not close to major earthquake faults, "it is not damaging, but very upsetting to the community that lives literally on top of it," said Ernie Majer, a seismologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and lead author on the protocol.
Federal funding for geothermal started during the 1970s Arab oil embargo, waned when oil prices subsided, and essentially stopped when Texas oilman George W. Bush entered the White House, Majer said.
With interest growing in energy with a tiny carbon footprint, the Obama administration revived support for geothermal energy. Besides handing out more than $40 million a year from the Department of Energy, it is funding 123 demonstration projects in 38 states with stimulus funds. Projects include home heat pumps, power plants, drilling, rock fracturing, exploration and underground mapping.
"The goal of the department is to try to validate that a source of energy could be produced at an adequate price," said Jacques Beaudry-Losique, deputy assistant secretary for renewable energy. He expects results in two to three years.
The centerpiece is $25 million to AltaRock Energy, Inc., of Seattle and Sausalito, Calif., to demonstrate EGS can produce electricity economically and without producing earthquakes just outside the Newberry Craters National Monument in central Oregon. Investors, Google among them, put in $60 million.
Earthquake concerns were mounting around AltaRock's EGS work at The Geysers when they shut it down over drilling problems, before getting to the point of trying to fracture rocks, AltaRock CEO Don O'Shei said. They are developing a system to monitor quakes at Newberry.
"If EGS becomes economical, it will really be a game-changer," O'Shei said. "Even though it is relatively high risk in terms of the money to develop that kind of technology under the ground ($6 million to $20 million for a well that could prove worthless), it is very important."
People in Klamath Falls don't have to be convinced.
IFA Nurseries, Inc., wouldn't have come to Klamath Falls if there wasn't geothermal energy. The geothermal heat cut greenhouse heating costs by a third compared to natural gas, said Jacqueline Friedman, nursery manager for IFA Nurseries.
The city is stepping beyond heat to electricity, building a geothermal generator like the one at Oregon Institute of Technology with the help of an $816,000 stimulus grant.
Stepping gingerly from the icy street to the dry sidewalk on his way to a bakery for a cinnamon roll, Klamath County Museum Manager said visitors are often curious about the geothermal energy in town, which also heats the museum.
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Mar 20, 1:56 pm ET
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – When snow falls on this downtown of brick buildings and glass storefronts in southern Oregon, it piles up everywhere but the sidewalks. It's the first sign that this timber and ranching town is like few others.
A combination of hot rocks and water like those that created Yellowstone's geysers have been tapped by the city to keep the sidewalks toasty since the early 1990s. They also heat downtown buildings, kettles at a brewhouse, and greenhouses and keep the lights on at a college campus.
Geothermal wells in this town of 20,000 mark one of the nation's most ambitious uses of a green energy resource with a tiny carbon footprint, and could serve as a model for a still-fledgling industry that is gaining steam with $338 million in stimulus funds and more than 100 projects nationwide.
"We didn't know it was green. It just made sense," said City Manager Jeff Ball.
Geothermal energy is unknown in much of the country but accounts for 0.5 percent of the nation's energy production.
It can be seen on a snowy day in a handful of Western towns like Klamath Falls. That's because hot rock is closer to the surface here, and comes with the water needed to bring the energy to the surface. Northern California is home to the world's largest geothermal power complex. The Geysers, 75 miles north of San Francisco, produces enough electricity for 750,000 homes.
With more than 600 geothermal wells heating houses, schools and a hospital as well as turning the turbine on a small power plant, Klamath Falls shows what everyday life could be if stimulus grants and venture capitalists turn geothermal energy from a Western curiosity to a game-changing energy resource.
Until now, geothermal energy has been limited by having to find the three essentials ingredients occurring together in one place naturally: hot rock relatively close to the surface, water, and cracks in the rock that serve as a reservoir.
Those limitations go away if engineers can tame a technology known as EGS, for Enhanced Geothermal Systems.
A 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology report estimates that EGS, with support, could be producing 100 gigawatts of electricity — equivalent to 1,000 coal-fired or nuclear power plants — by 2050, and has the potential to generate a large fraction of the nation's energy needs for centuries to come.
"If we are going to try to achieve a transformational change in this country, geothermal should be part of that recipe," said Jefferson Tester, chairman of the committee that produced the report and professor of sustainable energy at Cornell University. "It's not treated that way. It's typically forgotten."
One form of EGS involves drilling thousands of feet down to reach hot rock, pumping water down to fracture the rock to create reservoirs, then sending down water that will come back up another well as hot water or steam that can spin a turbine to generate electricity.
The system can be dropped in practically anywhere that hot rocks are close enough to the surface to make drilling economical.
The major problem with EGS is the potential to create earthquakes.
Pumping water into the ground to open numerous tiny fractures in the rock for a reservoir makes the earth move — what scientists call induced seismicity. Earthquakes stopped an EGS project in the middle of Basel, Switzerland, last year, and an international protocol has been developed for monitoring and mitigating earthquake problems.
As long as the wells are not close to major earthquake faults, "it is not damaging, but very upsetting to the community that lives literally on top of it," said Ernie Majer, a seismologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and lead author on the protocol.
Federal funding for geothermal started during the 1970s Arab oil embargo, waned when oil prices subsided, and essentially stopped when Texas oilman George W. Bush entered the White House, Majer said.
With interest growing in energy with a tiny carbon footprint, the Obama administration revived support for geothermal energy. Besides handing out more than $40 million a year from the Department of Energy, it is funding 123 demonstration projects in 38 states with stimulus funds. Projects include home heat pumps, power plants, drilling, rock fracturing, exploration and underground mapping.
"The goal of the department is to try to validate that a source of energy could be produced at an adequate price," said Jacques Beaudry-Losique, deputy assistant secretary for renewable energy. He expects results in two to three years.
The centerpiece is $25 million to AltaRock Energy, Inc., of Seattle and Sausalito, Calif., to demonstrate EGS can produce electricity economically and without producing earthquakes just outside the Newberry Craters National Monument in central Oregon. Investors, Google among them, put in $60 million.
Earthquake concerns were mounting around AltaRock's EGS work at The Geysers when they shut it down over drilling problems, before getting to the point of trying to fracture rocks, AltaRock CEO Don O'Shei said. They are developing a system to monitor quakes at Newberry.
"If EGS becomes economical, it will really be a game-changer," O'Shei said. "Even though it is relatively high risk in terms of the money to develop that kind of technology under the ground ($6 million to $20 million for a well that could prove worthless), it is very important."
People in Klamath Falls don't have to be convinced.
IFA Nurseries, Inc., wouldn't have come to Klamath Falls if there wasn't geothermal energy. The geothermal heat cut greenhouse heating costs by a third compared to natural gas, said Jacqueline Friedman, nursery manager for IFA Nurseries.
The city is stepping beyond heat to electricity, building a geothermal generator like the one at Oregon Institute of Technology with the help of an $816,000 stimulus grant.
Stepping gingerly from the icy street to the dry sidewalk on his way to a bakery for a cinnamon roll, Klamath County Museum Manager said visitors are often curious about the geothermal energy in town, which also heats the museum.
See also :
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Cars of Tomorrow - See Video
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- The high cost of hybrids has kept many people from going green, and a new Edmonds.com study shows that with the cost of gas -- combined with tax credits -- it only takes about three years to break even.
Now a new breed of hybrid is going to lessen that time even more. It's the brainchild of not one car company but DaimlerChrysler, General Motors and BMW! They are all working together to create the car of tomorrow.
As gas prices go up, the pressure is on to create cars that use less.
"The hybrid system that we're developing, we can apply to any vehicle that we have," Glenn Denomme, a chief engineer of Hybrid Powertrain Programs at DaimlerChrysler in Auburn Hills, Michigan, tells DBIS.
It allows for increased performance compared to a conventional SUV and improves fuel economy by up to 25 percent. Denomme says, "You can still haul your cargo, but you can still be environmentally sound too."
Today's hybrid works best in stop-and-go traffic -- tomorrow's hybrid will give you better fuel economy, not only in the city, but on the highway. When the new hybrid is stopped, the advanced system shuts the internal combustion engine off, conserving fuel. When the car starts to move, electric power is used to conserve fuel, adding power from the engine as needed.
Speeding up even more, power from both the engine and electric motors are routed to the wheels for greater acceleration.
The new technology doesn't stop there! A fuel cell car is 100-percent electric.
"It takes hydrogen and oxygen, combines it to form water, and at the same time produces electricity," says Doanh Tran, an advanced vehicle engineer with DaimlerChrysler’s Fuel Cell Vehicles & Technologies.
Hydrogen can be produced from just about anything that has a hydrogen molecule, and the car has no emission out of the tailpipe except water vapor.
Right now, platinum is used for the fuel cell’s parts and is expensive, but materials engineers are working to find new metals. And as for mileage, it gets 56 miles per gallon, so a little can go a long way.
See Video @ http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/1004-cars_of_tomorrow.htm
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Now a new breed of hybrid is going to lessen that time even more. It's the brainchild of not one car company but DaimlerChrysler, General Motors and BMW! They are all working together to create the car of tomorrow.
As gas prices go up, the pressure is on to create cars that use less.
"The hybrid system that we're developing, we can apply to any vehicle that we have," Glenn Denomme, a chief engineer of Hybrid Powertrain Programs at DaimlerChrysler in Auburn Hills, Michigan, tells DBIS.
It allows for increased performance compared to a conventional SUV and improves fuel economy by up to 25 percent. Denomme says, "You can still haul your cargo, but you can still be environmentally sound too."
Today's hybrid works best in stop-and-go traffic -- tomorrow's hybrid will give you better fuel economy, not only in the city, but on the highway. When the new hybrid is stopped, the advanced system shuts the internal combustion engine off, conserving fuel. When the car starts to move, electric power is used to conserve fuel, adding power from the engine as needed.
Speeding up even more, power from both the engine and electric motors are routed to the wheels for greater acceleration.
The new technology doesn't stop there! A fuel cell car is 100-percent electric.
"It takes hydrogen and oxygen, combines it to form water, and at the same time produces electricity," says Doanh Tran, an advanced vehicle engineer with DaimlerChrysler’s Fuel Cell Vehicles & Technologies.
Hydrogen can be produced from just about anything that has a hydrogen molecule, and the car has no emission out of the tailpipe except water vapor.
Right now, platinum is used for the fuel cell’s parts and is expensive, but materials engineers are working to find new metals. And as for mileage, it gets 56 miles per gallon, so a little can go a long way.
See Video @ http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/1004-cars_of_tomorrow.htm
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Intelligent Lighting for Smart Buildings
Digital Lumens emerges with smart LED light grid
Digital Lumens lifts veil on new lighting technology
March 16, 2010 - by Emma Ritch, Cleantech Group
Boston, Mass.-based Digital Lumens emerged from stealth today with a new lighting control technology aimed at reducing energy use in warehouses and industrial facilities.Digital Lumens Inc. has decided to shine a light on itself, revealing its technology : a combination of LED lighting, wireless mesh networking and management software that the company says can reduce the electrical cost of lighting an industrial facility by as much as 90 percent..
Digital Lumens calls its technology the Intelligent Lighting System, combining light-emitting diodes (LEDs), networking and software for a whole systems approach—unlike lighting technology companies that aim to make a single component, such as a bulb, more efficient.
Key to Digital Lumens’ technology is new LED-based fixtures that have built-in computing, sensing and intelligence to improve integration and central control.
Lighting is an important element of energy efficiency projects, with the U.S. Department of Energy estimating that lighting accounts for up to 30 percent of energy use in commercial buildings.
Energy efficiency is one of the fastest growing cleantech sectors for VC investment, with companies pulling in $1 billion in 2009, up 39 percent from the prior year, according to Cleantech Group data. Of that $1 billion, lighting raked in $299 million in 34 deals, accounting for 5.26 percent of all venture money to cleantech.
Redwood Systems Launches First Network-based LED Lighting Technology for Commercial Buildings
FREMONT, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Redwood Systems today publicly launches the first network-based technology for LED lighting and building performance systems. This new technology is based on the idea that LED lighting presents a new opportunity to create a unified network-based digital platform for smart buildings, helping building owners and designers reduce energy costs while providing control and automation in commercial lighting never before possible.
Sources :
http://it.tmcnet.com/news/2010/03/09/4664567.htm
http://cleantech.com/news/5707/digital-lumens-lifts-veil-new-light
http://www.silobreaker.com/digital-lumens-cuts-lighting-costs-with-networked-leds-5_2263307690002350096
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Digital Lumens lifts veil on new lighting technology
March 16, 2010 - by Emma Ritch, Cleantech Group
Boston, Mass.-based Digital Lumens emerged from stealth today with a new lighting control technology aimed at reducing energy use in warehouses and industrial facilities.Digital Lumens Inc. has decided to shine a light on itself, revealing its technology : a combination of LED lighting, wireless mesh networking and management software that the company says can reduce the electrical cost of lighting an industrial facility by as much as 90 percent..
Digital Lumens calls its technology the Intelligent Lighting System, combining light-emitting diodes (LEDs), networking and software for a whole systems approach—unlike lighting technology companies that aim to make a single component, such as a bulb, more efficient.
Key to Digital Lumens’ technology is new LED-based fixtures that have built-in computing, sensing and intelligence to improve integration and central control.
Lighting is an important element of energy efficiency projects, with the U.S. Department of Energy estimating that lighting accounts for up to 30 percent of energy use in commercial buildings.
Energy efficiency is one of the fastest growing cleantech sectors for VC investment, with companies pulling in $1 billion in 2009, up 39 percent from the prior year, according to Cleantech Group data. Of that $1 billion, lighting raked in $299 million in 34 deals, accounting for 5.26 percent of all venture money to cleantech.
Redwood Systems Launches First Network-based LED Lighting Technology for Commercial Buildings
FREMONT, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Redwood Systems today publicly launches the first network-based technology for LED lighting and building performance systems. This new technology is based on the idea that LED lighting presents a new opportunity to create a unified network-based digital platform for smart buildings, helping building owners and designers reduce energy costs while providing control and automation in commercial lighting never before possible.
Sources :
http://it.tmcnet.com/news/2010/03/09/4664567.htm
http://cleantech.com/news/5707/digital-lumens-lifts-veil-new-light
http://www.silobreaker.com/digital-lumens-cuts-lighting-costs-with-networked-leds-5_2263307690002350096
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Green Buildings - Saving Resources and Creating Jobs
March 18, 2010 Jordan Times
Hana Namrouqa
Mar. 18, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- AMMAN --
Experts in sustainable development on Wednesday called for a "green building movement" in Jordan, which they said would help the Kingdom preserve scarce resources, protect its environment and create jobs.
Pointing out that 40 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions are produced by buildings, they underscored the benefits of green construction practices for the country's environment and in preserving its scant water and energy resources.
The experts and conservationists made the remarks during the launch of the Jordan Green Building Council (JGBC), which seeks to promote the adoption of green construction practices in Jordan.
The JGBC was established in May 2009 and registered as a nongovernmental organisation in November last year. Among the council's main goals are introducing green building as a culture and raising public awareness about environment-friendly construction, according to organisers.
The council seeks to "make a green built environment a widespread reality in Jordan", JGBC President Mohammad Asfour said yesterday.
He noted that "green" is not just a practice but a culture, explaining that the council has held several training workshops at universities and civil society associations to raise awareness on green building and its role in boosting the economy while preserving natural resources.
Highlighting the importance of applying green building practices in Jordan, USAID Mission Director Jay Knott said green construction curbs the waste of energy and water, noting that as the number of green buildings increases, the costs of construction materials will decrease.
This eventually will translate into more environment-friendly and sustainable buildings in Jordan as well as more job opportunities, Knott said during a press conference held on the sidelines of the launch.
A "green building" is the outcome of a design that focuses on the efficient use of resources -- energy, water and materials -- while reducing impact on human health and the environment during the building's lifecycle, through better site selection, design, construction, operation, maintenance and removal, according to web sources.
Official figures indicate that environmental degradation costs the Kingdom JD330 million annually, or 5 per cent of the gross domestic product, while water loss costs the Kingdom around JD100 million annually.
Source - Alliance to Save Energy [info@ase.org]
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Hana Namrouqa
Mar. 18, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- AMMAN --
Experts in sustainable development on Wednesday called for a "green building movement" in Jordan, which they said would help the Kingdom preserve scarce resources, protect its environment and create jobs.
Pointing out that 40 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions are produced by buildings, they underscored the benefits of green construction practices for the country's environment and in preserving its scant water and energy resources.
The experts and conservationists made the remarks during the launch of the Jordan Green Building Council (JGBC), which seeks to promote the adoption of green construction practices in Jordan.
The JGBC was established in May 2009 and registered as a nongovernmental organisation in November last year. Among the council's main goals are introducing green building as a culture and raising public awareness about environment-friendly construction, according to organisers.
The council seeks to "make a green built environment a widespread reality in Jordan", JGBC President Mohammad Asfour said yesterday.
He noted that "green" is not just a practice but a culture, explaining that the council has held several training workshops at universities and civil society associations to raise awareness on green building and its role in boosting the economy while preserving natural resources.
Highlighting the importance of applying green building practices in Jordan, USAID Mission Director Jay Knott said green construction curbs the waste of energy and water, noting that as the number of green buildings increases, the costs of construction materials will decrease.
This eventually will translate into more environment-friendly and sustainable buildings in Jordan as well as more job opportunities, Knott said during a press conference held on the sidelines of the launch.
A "green building" is the outcome of a design that focuses on the efficient use of resources -- energy, water and materials -- while reducing impact on human health and the environment during the building's lifecycle, through better site selection, design, construction, operation, maintenance and removal, according to web sources.
Official figures indicate that environmental degradation costs the Kingdom JD330 million annually, or 5 per cent of the gross domestic product, while water loss costs the Kingdom around JD100 million annually.
Source - Alliance to Save Energy [info@ase.org]
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Green Crude - Bio Petroleum - Renewable Gasoline
Algae As Alternative Fuel Source
Natural Selection
Green Crude
by David Ewing Duncan
Never mind falling oil prices. Bill Gates and the Rockefellers think they know a better way to fill up your gas tank: algae (Yes, we mean pond scum).
In one of the most memorable moments in cinema, a middle-aged businessman whispers to a young and perplexed Dustin Hoffman one word of advice: “Plastics.”
In a 21st-century remake, the word might one day be algae.
Plastic was the new gold when The Graduate was filmed in the 1960s. In the summer of 2008, as oil prices soared to frightening levels, dozens of little companies managed to bring in a sudden gusher of funding for a technology that has long been relegated to the fringe of alternative energy: turning the green scum that grows in ponds and waterways into fuel.
In just six months, investors pledged more than $1 billion to 30 or 40 algae-fuel companies, many of them new. Now with oil prices less than half of what they were in the summer, the fledgling algae industry isn’t likely to see more big investments anytime soon, and the credit squeeze will also hamper development. But the companies hope they’ve raised enough cash to move the technology to the next step and prove that the watery weed can be a viable alternative to petroleum.
The fact is, algae contains an abundance of natural fatty oils that don’t need much refining to power cars and jets. Nevertheless, making algae into a cost-effective fuel source remains a highly speculative venture. The process has been tried only on a small scale; so far, just a few thousand barrels of fuel have been made from algae. Large-scale cultivation takes place in huge metal tanks or open ponds. According to a 2004 University of New Hampshire study, the pond method would require 30 million square acres—an area equal to the size of South Carolina—to grow enough algae to satisfy the U.S.’s transportation needs. Whatever process is used will require the building of massive new infrastructure for water management, feedstock supplies, nutrients, and transportation, even if algae oil can be refined at existing facilities. If algae companies can’t increase production while maintaining prices that can compete with petroleum’s, they will fail.
Still, the prospect of replacing petroleum with a plant-based fuel that has a high energy yield compared with other plants has led some major investors to take the algae plunge—including Bill Gates, whose venture fund Cascade Investment pledged a reported $50 million to Sapphire Energy, a San Diego startup, in a financing round completed in September 2008. The Rockefeller family’s Venrock Associates fund has also made a substantial investment in Sapphire, and the company has attracted other blue-chip venture funds, including Arch Venture Partners and the V.C. arm of Britain’s huge life-science nonprofit the Wellcome Trust. “We are investing in this because algae is basically the most efficient photosynthetic process on the planet,” says Arch’s Kristina Burow.
In the fall, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, launched a $200 million effort to fund innovative biofuel technologies and projects, including some using algae. Barack Obama mentioned algae several times on the campaign trail, and his advisers expect algae will play a role in his administration’s plans for a massive infusion of federal money into alternative fuels. If it does, the money might come just in time to offset the recent fall in oil prices and credit crunch, which could otherwise imperil algae’s prospects. Meanwhile, GreenFuel Technologies of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is developing a system that would use a coal plant’s carbon dioxide emissions as a carbon source to feed algae that would be converted into fuel. Near South Padre Island, Texas, PetroSun is converting a shrimp-research facility into an algae pond. Big oil companies like Chevron are also committing resources to pond scum. “Algae still needs to be proven at scale,” says Chevron spokesman Alex Yelland, “but we have a real sense that this will seriously augment the world’s biofuel supply in the future.”
Read complete article @
http://www.portfolio.com/views/columns/natural-selection/2009/01/07/Algae-as-Alternative-Fuel-Source/
Sources :
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/29/business/fi-greencrude29
http://www.greencrudeproduction.com/solution.html
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=11801
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1852747_1854195_1854150,00.html
http://www.sapphireenergy.com/press-article/67406-sapphire-energy-unveils-world-s-first-renewable/22043-research
http://www.jsonline.com/business/95160769.html
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Natural Selection
Green Crude
by David Ewing Duncan
Never mind falling oil prices. Bill Gates and the Rockefellers think they know a better way to fill up your gas tank: algae (Yes, we mean pond scum).
In one of the most memorable moments in cinema, a middle-aged businessman whispers to a young and perplexed Dustin Hoffman one word of advice: “Plastics.”
In a 21st-century remake, the word might one day be algae.
Plastic was the new gold when The Graduate was filmed in the 1960s. In the summer of 2008, as oil prices soared to frightening levels, dozens of little companies managed to bring in a sudden gusher of funding for a technology that has long been relegated to the fringe of alternative energy: turning the green scum that grows in ponds and waterways into fuel.
In just six months, investors pledged more than $1 billion to 30 or 40 algae-fuel companies, many of them new. Now with oil prices less than half of what they were in the summer, the fledgling algae industry isn’t likely to see more big investments anytime soon, and the credit squeeze will also hamper development. But the companies hope they’ve raised enough cash to move the technology to the next step and prove that the watery weed can be a viable alternative to petroleum.
The fact is, algae contains an abundance of natural fatty oils that don’t need much refining to power cars and jets. Nevertheless, making algae into a cost-effective fuel source remains a highly speculative venture. The process has been tried only on a small scale; so far, just a few thousand barrels of fuel have been made from algae. Large-scale cultivation takes place in huge metal tanks or open ponds. According to a 2004 University of New Hampshire study, the pond method would require 30 million square acres—an area equal to the size of South Carolina—to grow enough algae to satisfy the U.S.’s transportation needs. Whatever process is used will require the building of massive new infrastructure for water management, feedstock supplies, nutrients, and transportation, even if algae oil can be refined at existing facilities. If algae companies can’t increase production while maintaining prices that can compete with petroleum’s, they will fail.
Still, the prospect of replacing petroleum with a plant-based fuel that has a high energy yield compared with other plants has led some major investors to take the algae plunge—including Bill Gates, whose venture fund Cascade Investment pledged a reported $50 million to Sapphire Energy, a San Diego startup, in a financing round completed in September 2008. The Rockefeller family’s Venrock Associates fund has also made a substantial investment in Sapphire, and the company has attracted other blue-chip venture funds, including Arch Venture Partners and the V.C. arm of Britain’s huge life-science nonprofit the Wellcome Trust. “We are investing in this because algae is basically the most efficient photosynthetic process on the planet,” says Arch’s Kristina Burow.
In the fall, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, launched a $200 million effort to fund innovative biofuel technologies and projects, including some using algae. Barack Obama mentioned algae several times on the campaign trail, and his advisers expect algae will play a role in his administration’s plans for a massive infusion of federal money into alternative fuels. If it does, the money might come just in time to offset the recent fall in oil prices and credit crunch, which could otherwise imperil algae’s prospects. Meanwhile, GreenFuel Technologies of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is developing a system that would use a coal plant’s carbon dioxide emissions as a carbon source to feed algae that would be converted into fuel. Near South Padre Island, Texas, PetroSun is converting a shrimp-research facility into an algae pond. Big oil companies like Chevron are also committing resources to pond scum. “Algae still needs to be proven at scale,” says Chevron spokesman Alex Yelland, “but we have a real sense that this will seriously augment the world’s biofuel supply in the future.”
Read complete article @
http://www.portfolio.com/views/columns/natural-selection/2009/01/07/Algae-as-Alternative-Fuel-Source/
Sources :
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/29/business/fi-greencrude29
http://www.greencrudeproduction.com/solution.html
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=11801
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1852747_1854195_1854150,00.html
http://www.sapphireenergy.com/press-article/67406-sapphire-energy-unveils-world-s-first-renewable/22043-research
http://www.jsonline.com/business/95160769.html
For more information, please contact :
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Green Up for Boating Season - Top 10 Tips for Greener Boating
Green Up for Boating Season
Longer days and warmer weather signals the beginning of prime boating season in Florida with boats of all types being readied to hit the water. In the midst of polishing and cleaning, replacing and repairing, and planning recreational pleasures, boat owners can adopt green practices to help protect water quality and keep Florida waterways clean and healthy.
Top 10 Tips for Greener Boating
Clean Green
Using phosphate-free, biodegradable and non-toxic EPA-Certified ‘Design for the Environment’ boat cleaners helps protect the environment, has minimal environmental impact and are safer for you and your family.
Maintain Equipment
Keep your vessel engine clean to easily spot and repair leaks. Make sure your boat, engine and propeller blades are in good condition to avoid wasting fuel and to minimize the chance of hazardous materials entering the water.
Pump Out
Never discharge raw sewage into the water. Use marina pumpout stations, rinse your holding tank regularly and use enzyme-based products to control odor and reduce solids in the holding tank.
Recycle Waste
Dispose of paints, batteries, antifreeze, cleaning products, oil and other hazardous wastes at the marina or a waste collection facility.
Keep a Clean Bilge
Place oil absorbent material or a bioremediating bilge ’sock’ in your bilge to prevent any oil leakage into waterways and replace sock regularly.
Prevent Fuel Spills
Use or install a device that will give warning and prevent spills when the tank is reaching its fuel capacity. Fill the tank slowly, leaving 10 percent empty to prevent overflow and allow the fuel to expand.
Chart Your Course
Study the waterways to prevent boat propellers from damaging sensitive sea floor habitats or injuring marine life. Avoid consuming excess fuel supply by planning your trip in advance to avoid unnecessary travel.
Stow Your Trash
Keep ALL trash onboard and take advantage of shore side facilities for all recyclables.
Recycle Fishing Line
Protect marine life by properly disposing of monofilament fishing line at your marina or shore side recycling locations. Get involved in volunteer monofilament line cleanup events.
Be a Responsible Boater
Keep learning about environmentally safe products and practices; obey laws for speeding, littering and discharge; and support Florida’s environmentally responsible, designated Clean Marinas.
Clean boating - visit www.dep.state.fl.us/cleanmarina;
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Longer days and warmer weather signals the beginning of prime boating season in Florida with boats of all types being readied to hit the water. In the midst of polishing and cleaning, replacing and repairing, and planning recreational pleasures, boat owners can adopt green practices to help protect water quality and keep Florida waterways clean and healthy.
Top 10 Tips for Greener Boating
Clean Green
Using phosphate-free, biodegradable and non-toxic EPA-Certified ‘Design for the Environment’ boat cleaners helps protect the environment, has minimal environmental impact and are safer for you and your family.
Maintain Equipment
Keep your vessel engine clean to easily spot and repair leaks. Make sure your boat, engine and propeller blades are in good condition to avoid wasting fuel and to minimize the chance of hazardous materials entering the water.
Pump Out
Never discharge raw sewage into the water. Use marina pumpout stations, rinse your holding tank regularly and use enzyme-based products to control odor and reduce solids in the holding tank.
Recycle Waste
Dispose of paints, batteries, antifreeze, cleaning products, oil and other hazardous wastes at the marina or a waste collection facility.
Keep a Clean Bilge
Place oil absorbent material or a bioremediating bilge ’sock’ in your bilge to prevent any oil leakage into waterways and replace sock regularly.
Prevent Fuel Spills
Use or install a device that will give warning and prevent spills when the tank is reaching its fuel capacity. Fill the tank slowly, leaving 10 percent empty to prevent overflow and allow the fuel to expand.
Chart Your Course
Study the waterways to prevent boat propellers from damaging sensitive sea floor habitats or injuring marine life. Avoid consuming excess fuel supply by planning your trip in advance to avoid unnecessary travel.
Stow Your Trash
Keep ALL trash onboard and take advantage of shore side facilities for all recyclables.
Recycle Fishing Line
Protect marine life by properly disposing of monofilament fishing line at your marina or shore side recycling locations. Get involved in volunteer monofilament line cleanup events.
Be a Responsible Boater
Keep learning about environmentally safe products and practices; obey laws for speeding, littering and discharge; and support Florida’s environmentally responsible, designated Clean Marinas.
Clean boating - visit www.dep.state.fl.us/cleanmarina;
For more information on how Green Technologies can be used on boats and yachts, please contact :
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Florida Green Lodging Program
Launched in March 2004, the Florida Green Lodging Program establishes environmental guidelines for hotels and motels to conserve natural resources and prevent pollution. As reward for designation, the state is recommending designated properties in the Florida Green Lodging Program to companies and trade organizations seeking environmentally conscious lodging and convention facilities.
Newly designated Green Lodging facilities are setting an example for others in the hospitality industry and making it easier for Floridians to make environmentally friendly choices.”
To become a designated member of the voluntary program, lodging facilities adopt cost-saving green practices to conserve energy, reduce water consumption, protect air quality and reduce waste. The six new designations include:
For more information about the Florida Green Lodging Program, visit www.dep.state.fl.us/greenlodging.
DEP’s Office of Sustainable Initiatives is comprised of three voluntary, non-regulatory programs that assist Florida industry and citizens in protecting the environment. The Clean Marina Program, the Clean Vessel Act grant program and the Florida Green Lodging Program offer a variety of services including consultations, speakers and workshops, all at no cost to citizens or organizations. The goal of the Sustainable Initiatives programs is to meet the needs of the present population without compromising resources for future generations. To learn more about DEP’s Sustainable Initiatives, visit www.dep.state.fl.us/green.
Source - http://www.dep.state.fl.us/secretary/post/2010/0319_2.htm#6
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Newly designated Green Lodging facilities are setting an example for others in the hospitality industry and making it easier for Floridians to make environmentally friendly choices.”
To become a designated member of the voluntary program, lodging facilities adopt cost-saving green practices to conserve energy, reduce water consumption, protect air quality and reduce waste. The six new designations include:
For more information about the Florida Green Lodging Program, visit www.dep.state.fl.us/greenlodging.
DEP’s Office of Sustainable Initiatives is comprised of three voluntary, non-regulatory programs that assist Florida industry and citizens in protecting the environment. The Clean Marina Program, the Clean Vessel Act grant program and the Florida Green Lodging Program offer a variety of services including consultations, speakers and workshops, all at no cost to citizens or organizations. The goal of the Sustainable Initiatives programs is to meet the needs of the present population without compromising resources for future generations. To learn more about DEP’s Sustainable Initiatives, visit www.dep.state.fl.us/green.
Source - http://www.dep.state.fl.us/secretary/post/2010/0319_2.htm#6
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Scavenging Energy Waste to Turn Water Into Hydrogen Fuel
ScienceDaily (Mar. 12, 2010) — Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel.
The process is simple, efficient and recycles otherwise-wasted energy into a useable form.
"This study provides a simple and cost-effective technology for direct water splitting that may generate hydrogen fuels by scavenging energy wastes such as noise or stray vibrations from the environment," the authors write in a new paper, published March 2 in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. "This new discovery may have potential implications in solving the challenging energy and environmental issues that we are facing today and in the future."
The researchers, led by UW-Madison geologist and crystal specialist Huifang Xu, grew nanocrystals of two common crystals, zinc oxide and barium titanate, and placed them in water. When pulsed with ultrasonic vibrations, the nanofibers flexed and catalyzed a chemical reaction to split the water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.
When the fibers bend, asymmetries in their crystal structures generate positive and negative charges and create an electrical potential. This phenomenon, called the piezoelectric effect, has been well known in certain crystals for more than a century and is the driving force behind quartz clocks and other applications.
Source - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311131802.htm
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The process is simple, efficient and recycles otherwise-wasted energy into a useable form.
"This study provides a simple and cost-effective technology for direct water splitting that may generate hydrogen fuels by scavenging energy wastes such as noise or stray vibrations from the environment," the authors write in a new paper, published March 2 in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. "This new discovery may have potential implications in solving the challenging energy and environmental issues that we are facing today and in the future."
The researchers, led by UW-Madison geologist and crystal specialist Huifang Xu, grew nanocrystals of two common crystals, zinc oxide and barium titanate, and placed them in water. When pulsed with ultrasonic vibrations, the nanofibers flexed and catalyzed a chemical reaction to split the water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.
When the fibers bend, asymmetries in their crystal structures generate positive and negative charges and create an electrical potential. This phenomenon, called the piezoelectric effect, has been well known in certain crystals for more than a century and is the driving force behind quartz clocks and other applications.
Source - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311131802.htm
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Water Oxidation Advance Boosts Potential for Solar Fuel
Water Oxidation Advance Boosts Potential for Solar Fuel
ScienceDaily (Mar. 18, 2010) — Emory University chemists have developed the most potent homogeneous catalyst known for water oxidation, considered a crucial component for generating clean hydrogen fuel using only water and sunlight.
The breakthrough, published March 11 in the journal Science, was made in collaboration with the Paris Institute of Molecular Chemistry.
The fastest, carbon-free molecular water oxidation catalyst (WOC) to date "has really upped the standard from the other known homogeneous WOCs," said Emory inorganic chemist Craig Hill, whose lab led the effort. "It's like a home run compared to a base hit."
Source - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311141207.htm
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ScienceDaily (Mar. 18, 2010) — Emory University chemists have developed the most potent homogeneous catalyst known for water oxidation, considered a crucial component for generating clean hydrogen fuel using only water and sunlight.
The breakthrough, published March 11 in the journal Science, was made in collaboration with the Paris Institute of Molecular Chemistry.
The fastest, carbon-free molecular water oxidation catalyst (WOC) to date "has really upped the standard from the other known homogeneous WOCs," said Emory inorganic chemist Craig Hill, whose lab led the effort. "It's like a home run compared to a base hit."
Source - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311141207.htm
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New Technologies for Solar, Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, etc.
ScienceDaily (Mar. 19, 2010) — Graphene -- carbon formed into sheets a single atom thick -- now appears to be a promising base material for capturing hydrogen, according to recent research* at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Pennsylvania. The findings suggest stacks of graphene layers could potentially store hydrogen safely for use in fuel cells and other applications.
Graphene has become something of a celebrity material in recent years due to its conductive, thermal and optical properties, which could make it useful in a range of sensors and semiconductor devices.
Source - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100317161952.htm
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Graphene has become something of a celebrity material in recent years due to its conductive, thermal and optical properties, which could make it useful in a range of sensors and semiconductor devices.
Source - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100317161952.htm
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NYC Passes Landmark Green Building Legislation
NYC Passes Landmark Green Building Legislation
On December 9, 2009, the New York City Council passed a package of legislation, known as the “Greener, Greater Buildings Plan,” that it says will reduce the city’s carbon footprint by 5%—a figure that has been compared to the entire carbon footprint of Oakland, California.
The legislation is a component of PlaNYC, a broad strategy introduced in 2007 with the goal of reducing New York City’s carbon footprint 30% by 2030. The four major building-related elements of the legislation are: the creation of a citywide energy code; a benchmarking requirement; lighting system upgrades and tenant submetering; and required energy audits and retrocommissioning.
The New York City Energy Conservation Construction Code closes a loophole in the New York State Energy Code—which is based on the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC)—that previously allowed renovations comprising less than 50% of the building area to remain noncompliant. Now all renovation projects must comply with IECC in the portions of the building that are renovated.
The other three components of the legislation apply only to buildings 50,000 ft2 (4,600 m2) and larger—nearly half the total built square footage within the city. These buildings must now monitor energy and water use through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Portfolio Manager tool; upgrade lighting systems to code for any renovations or by 2025; provide tenant submetering (residential tenants exempted) and a monthly statement of energy use; and undergo energy audits and retrocommissioning every ten years. (As initially proposed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in April 2009, the bill would have also required that building owners implement all retrofit options with a payback period of five years or less, but this element was retracted, reportedly due to pressure from building owners.)
“While New York already has the lowest per capita carbon footprint of any major city in America, we recognize that every city must take action to fight climate change,” said Mayor Bloomberg in a statement. “By requiring buildings to conduct energy audits and improve their energy efficiency, the Greener, Greater Buildings Plan will reduce the city’s total greenhouse gas emissions while creating thousands of jobs and dramatically reducing annual energy costs.”
Special Thanks to the author, Andrea Ward and http://www.greenbuilding.com
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On December 9, 2009, the New York City Council passed a package of legislation, known as the “Greener, Greater Buildings Plan,” that it says will reduce the city’s carbon footprint by 5%—a figure that has been compared to the entire carbon footprint of Oakland, California.
The legislation is a component of PlaNYC, a broad strategy introduced in 2007 with the goal of reducing New York City’s carbon footprint 30% by 2030. The four major building-related elements of the legislation are: the creation of a citywide energy code; a benchmarking requirement; lighting system upgrades and tenant submetering; and required energy audits and retrocommissioning.
The New York City Energy Conservation Construction Code closes a loophole in the New York State Energy Code—which is based on the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC)—that previously allowed renovations comprising less than 50% of the building area to remain noncompliant. Now all renovation projects must comply with IECC in the portions of the building that are renovated.
The other three components of the legislation apply only to buildings 50,000 ft2 (4,600 m2) and larger—nearly half the total built square footage within the city. These buildings must now monitor energy and water use through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Portfolio Manager tool; upgrade lighting systems to code for any renovations or by 2025; provide tenant submetering (residential tenants exempted) and a monthly statement of energy use; and undergo energy audits and retrocommissioning every ten years. (As initially proposed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in April 2009, the bill would have also required that building owners implement all retrofit options with a payback period of five years or less, but this element was retracted, reportedly due to pressure from building owners.)
“While New York already has the lowest per capita carbon footprint of any major city in America, we recognize that every city must take action to fight climate change,” said Mayor Bloomberg in a statement. “By requiring buildings to conduct energy audits and improve their energy efficiency, the Greener, Greater Buildings Plan will reduce the city’s total greenhouse gas emissions while creating thousands of jobs and dramatically reducing annual energy costs.”
Special Thanks to the author, Andrea Ward and http://www.greenbuilding.com
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New York City Green Task Force - Green Becoming Code
Green Codes Task Force:
111 Ways to Make NYC Greener
New York City’s iconic rooftop water towers allow access to potable water during a crisis. The Green Codes Task Force recommends requiring water towers in new and renovated buildings as well as prohibiting the removal of existing towers.
In July 2008, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called on the Urban Green Council (formerly the New York chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council) to convene a task force to advise the City on future changes to municipal codes that would shrink the city’s carbon footprint and improve public and environmental health. Some 18 months later, the New York City Green Codes Task Force, an assemblage of more than 200 leading thinkers in green building today (including BuildingGreen’s Alex Wilson), has released a report offering 111 recommendations to help bring the codes in line with PlaNYC, the City’s comprehensive plan to reduce energy and water use and bring greenhouse gas emissions down 30% by 2030.
New York City is already out front in the race among cities pushing to encourage green building, mandating LEED for public buildings since 2007 and requiring energy monitoring, audits, and retrocommissioning for large commercial buildings since late 2009 (see EBN Jan. 2010). But, as Urban Green Council executive director and task force steering committee chair Russell Unger points out, these regulations push the leading edge while leaving most buildings, including some of the lowest performers, to continue business as usual. Taking on green building at a code level, he says, would begin to change all that. “The average New Yorker doesn’t get to experience much green unless they live or work in a high-end building,” Unger told EBN. “When you change codes, it means that everyone can live in a green building; everyone can have healthier air and live in a space that’s consistent with their values.”
The 111 recommendations of the task force fall into ten categories, overseen by nine technical committees, a steering committee, and an industry advisory committee. All proposals include sample statutory language, an explanation of the background issues and rationale, analysis of costs and savings, precedents from other jurisdictions, comparison to LEED credits, and implementation information. Some of the recommendations are simply calls for further research, especially in relatively new areas like climate adaptation. Others would require significant changes to building codes and construction practices—particularly those that deal with HVAC upgrades, envelope issues, and district-level infrastructure alterations. Still others would remove existing impediments to energy-efficient passive design strategies, like allowing awnings, which currently may be no longer than 10 inches, seriously limiting their efficacy. Below is a sampling of proposals from each category:
Overarching Code Issues (OC): Recommendations in this category focus on ensuring that codes can expand to accommodate new sustainable building practices, that the relevant personnel are trained to comply, that existing buildings are not ignored, and that codes incorporate environmental protection as a fundamental principle.
Health & Toxicity (HT): VOCs, formaldehyde, dirty boiler fuels, soot from outside air, and mold in bathrooms are familiar targets here, but the committee also recommends encouraging stairway use, making drinking fountains more widely available, removing administrative barriers to asbestos remediation, and investigating a fluorescent bulb recycling program.
Energy & Carbon Emissions – Fundamentals (EF): The first of three energy and carbon categories, this section aims to clarify codes and lower building energy loads. Recommended here are a uniform adoption of ASHRAE 90.1, requiring more insulation and air barriers, promoting natural ventilation through screens and operable windows, and removal of impediments to alternative energy and passive cooling strategies.
Energy & Carbon Emissions – Energy Efficiency (EE): This section calls for improved energy modeling, more efficient energy and lighting systems, and required commissioning in all large buildings, but also low-cost measures like limiting after-hours retail lighting and reducing lighting power requirements in offices. Temperature controls in individual living spaces would also eliminate the familiar sight of windows wide open in midwinter to cool overheated apartments.
Energy & Carbon Emissions – Operations & Maintenance (EO): Proposals in this section are aimed at raising awareness of energy use among building operations personnel and tenants alike. Examples include required metering, monitoring, and regular inspections; training for operations staff; and setting new required temperature minimums and maximums.
Building Resilience (BR): Resilience—climate adaptation—is a relatively new consideration on the code landscape and arguably a more urgent one for water-bound New York. These proposals address protection of infrastructure in the event of flooding, and call for more flood and climate research. Several resilience recommendations also address passive survivability—ensuring that critical life-safety systems function without power and water.
Resource Conservation (RC): Construction waste is the primary target of this section, with additional recommendations for using recycled aggregate in concrete, recycled asphalt, and sustainable wood; dedicated tenant recycling areas would also be required here.
Water Efficiency (WE): Upgraded water fixtures and required submetering would curtail water consumption, while other proposals call for reducing potable water used for cleaning sidewalks and cooling energy systems and appliances, and clearing the administrative hurdles to water recycling and reuse.
Stormwater (SW): With combined sewer overflows a common occurrence in New York due to the high proportion of paved area, these recommendations would institute stricter runoff requirements for lots and construction sites, allow for innovative site-based stormwater strategies, and require that half of non-built portions of lots remain unpaved.
Urban Ecology (UE): Requiring native plants on city property, prohibiting turf grass, encouraging permeable sidewalks, and protecting mature trees are some proposals aimed at improving urban biodiversity and combating stormwater runoff and the urban heat-island effect.
With the recommendations now in the hands of the mayor’s office and the City Council, Unger said that the Urban Green Council would continue discussions with City officials and stakeholders about how the task force proposals might be implemented. Expressing cautious optimism about the future of the report, Unger focused on the capacity of code-level changes to move markets and make green building strategies more affordable, and thus much more accessible. “When you’re writing codes, you need to make sure that you’re mandating something that every building can achieve,” he said. “But when you move codes in the direction of sustainability, all of a sudden these are standard products and standard services.”
Special Thanks to the author, Andrea Ward, and The Urban Green Council
www.urbangreencouncil.org/advocacy/green-codes-task-force.html
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111 Ways to Make NYC Greener
New York City’s iconic rooftop water towers allow access to potable water during a crisis. The Green Codes Task Force recommends requiring water towers in new and renovated buildings as well as prohibiting the removal of existing towers.
In July 2008, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called on the Urban Green Council (formerly the New York chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council) to convene a task force to advise the City on future changes to municipal codes that would shrink the city’s carbon footprint and improve public and environmental health. Some 18 months later, the New York City Green Codes Task Force, an assemblage of more than 200 leading thinkers in green building today (including BuildingGreen’s Alex Wilson), has released a report offering 111 recommendations to help bring the codes in line with PlaNYC, the City’s comprehensive plan to reduce energy and water use and bring greenhouse gas emissions down 30% by 2030.
New York City is already out front in the race among cities pushing to encourage green building, mandating LEED for public buildings since 2007 and requiring energy monitoring, audits, and retrocommissioning for large commercial buildings since late 2009 (see EBN Jan. 2010). But, as Urban Green Council executive director and task force steering committee chair Russell Unger points out, these regulations push the leading edge while leaving most buildings, including some of the lowest performers, to continue business as usual. Taking on green building at a code level, he says, would begin to change all that. “The average New Yorker doesn’t get to experience much green unless they live or work in a high-end building,” Unger told EBN. “When you change codes, it means that everyone can live in a green building; everyone can have healthier air and live in a space that’s consistent with their values.”
The 111 recommendations of the task force fall into ten categories, overseen by nine technical committees, a steering committee, and an industry advisory committee. All proposals include sample statutory language, an explanation of the background issues and rationale, analysis of costs and savings, precedents from other jurisdictions, comparison to LEED credits, and implementation information. Some of the recommendations are simply calls for further research, especially in relatively new areas like climate adaptation. Others would require significant changes to building codes and construction practices—particularly those that deal with HVAC upgrades, envelope issues, and district-level infrastructure alterations. Still others would remove existing impediments to energy-efficient passive design strategies, like allowing awnings, which currently may be no longer than 10 inches, seriously limiting their efficacy. Below is a sampling of proposals from each category:
Overarching Code Issues (OC): Recommendations in this category focus on ensuring that codes can expand to accommodate new sustainable building practices, that the relevant personnel are trained to comply, that existing buildings are not ignored, and that codes incorporate environmental protection as a fundamental principle.
Health & Toxicity (HT): VOCs, formaldehyde, dirty boiler fuels, soot from outside air, and mold in bathrooms are familiar targets here, but the committee also recommends encouraging stairway use, making drinking fountains more widely available, removing administrative barriers to asbestos remediation, and investigating a fluorescent bulb recycling program.
Energy & Carbon Emissions – Fundamentals (EF): The first of three energy and carbon categories, this section aims to clarify codes and lower building energy loads. Recommended here are a uniform adoption of ASHRAE 90.1, requiring more insulation and air barriers, promoting natural ventilation through screens and operable windows, and removal of impediments to alternative energy and passive cooling strategies.
Energy & Carbon Emissions – Energy Efficiency (EE): This section calls for improved energy modeling, more efficient energy and lighting systems, and required commissioning in all large buildings, but also low-cost measures like limiting after-hours retail lighting and reducing lighting power requirements in offices. Temperature controls in individual living spaces would also eliminate the familiar sight of windows wide open in midwinter to cool overheated apartments.
Energy & Carbon Emissions – Operations & Maintenance (EO): Proposals in this section are aimed at raising awareness of energy use among building operations personnel and tenants alike. Examples include required metering, monitoring, and regular inspections; training for operations staff; and setting new required temperature minimums and maximums.
Building Resilience (BR): Resilience—climate adaptation—is a relatively new consideration on the code landscape and arguably a more urgent one for water-bound New York. These proposals address protection of infrastructure in the event of flooding, and call for more flood and climate research. Several resilience recommendations also address passive survivability—ensuring that critical life-safety systems function without power and water.
Resource Conservation (RC): Construction waste is the primary target of this section, with additional recommendations for using recycled aggregate in concrete, recycled asphalt, and sustainable wood; dedicated tenant recycling areas would also be required here.
Water Efficiency (WE): Upgraded water fixtures and required submetering would curtail water consumption, while other proposals call for reducing potable water used for cleaning sidewalks and cooling energy systems and appliances, and clearing the administrative hurdles to water recycling and reuse.
Stormwater (SW): With combined sewer overflows a common occurrence in New York due to the high proportion of paved area, these recommendations would institute stricter runoff requirements for lots and construction sites, allow for innovative site-based stormwater strategies, and require that half of non-built portions of lots remain unpaved.
Urban Ecology (UE): Requiring native plants on city property, prohibiting turf grass, encouraging permeable sidewalks, and protecting mature trees are some proposals aimed at improving urban biodiversity and combating stormwater runoff and the urban heat-island effect.
With the recommendations now in the hands of the mayor’s office and the City Council, Unger said that the Urban Green Council would continue discussions with City officials and stakeholders about how the task force proposals might be implemented. Expressing cautious optimism about the future of the report, Unger focused on the capacity of code-level changes to move markets and make green building strategies more affordable, and thus much more accessible. “When you’re writing codes, you need to make sure that you’re mandating something that every building can achieve,” he said. “But when you move codes in the direction of sustainability, all of a sudden these are standard products and standard services.”
Special Thanks to the author, Andrea Ward, and The Urban Green Council
www.urbangreencouncil.org/advocacy/green-codes-task-force.html
For more information about how Green becoming Code will affect your property, please contact :
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Making The Case for Green Building
To those of us entrenched in the green building world the benefits seem obvious. Why would anyone choose to build in a way that isn’t comfortable, healthy, and energy efficient? In the process of designing and building green, however, we keep running into others who are not yet as convinced. For those situations, it’s useful to be able to spell out the benefits.
The building owner ultimately calls the shots, so getting that person or group on board early is essential. But not every owner will find the same arguments compelling: a hospital board may opt for green because certain green features promote healing, a commercial office property holding company may incorporate green features to speed the lease-out and thus lower carrying costs, a federal agency may desire green features to improve employee morale and increase job retention.
Even within a single project, different team members often have different reasons for
promoting a green agenda. The architect may promote environmental measures because she feels it’s the right thing to do. The facilities manager who will take care of a building may recognize inherent durability and maintenance advantages. And the owner may look strictly at bottom-line financial benefits of green.
Note that while a green building might theoretically be able to achieve all of these benefits, most green buildings do not. For any specific project, it is important that any claims about the benefits are associated with green strategies that are actually being implemented—or at least considered—for that project. Further, there are green buildings in which benefits that are not achieved—such as durability—may render other benefits irrelevant. If poor moisture control results in premature building failure and the growth of mold, those problems could undo key benefits of the building, such as providing a healthy indoor environment.
Green building is not only about adding together different green features—and green benefits—it is about how these systems fit together to create a building that works.
There are lots of reasons for building green, none necessarily better than others.
This article examines the spectrum of reasons, providing short explanations for 46 benefits. Even if many of these items are already familiar, this list may provide some new insights and help you onvince your next clients to pursue an even deeper shade of green.
Special Thanks to the authors Alex Wilson and http://www.buildinggreen.com
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The building owner ultimately calls the shots, so getting that person or group on board early is essential. But not every owner will find the same arguments compelling: a hospital board may opt for green because certain green features promote healing, a commercial office property holding company may incorporate green features to speed the lease-out and thus lower carrying costs, a federal agency may desire green features to improve employee morale and increase job retention.
Even within a single project, different team members often have different reasons for
promoting a green agenda. The architect may promote environmental measures because she feels it’s the right thing to do. The facilities manager who will take care of a building may recognize inherent durability and maintenance advantages. And the owner may look strictly at bottom-line financial benefits of green.
Note that while a green building might theoretically be able to achieve all of these benefits, most green buildings do not. For any specific project, it is important that any claims about the benefits are associated with green strategies that are actually being implemented—or at least considered—for that project. Further, there are green buildings in which benefits that are not achieved—such as durability—may render other benefits irrelevant. If poor moisture control results in premature building failure and the growth of mold, those problems could undo key benefits of the building, such as providing a healthy indoor environment.
Green building is not only about adding together different green features—and green benefits—it is about how these systems fit together to create a building that works.
There are lots of reasons for building green, none necessarily better than others.
This article examines the spectrum of reasons, providing short explanations for 46 benefits. Even if many of these items are already familiar, this list may provide some new insights and help you onvince your next clients to pursue an even deeper shade of green.
Special Thanks to the authors Alex Wilson and http://www.buildinggreen.com
For a free copy of this article in its entirety, please contact :
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Going Green Is How To Stimulate Our Economy
The Business Model
There are over 65,000 target redevelopment areas in the US that GGV wants to revitalize with our new form of energy. A redevelopment area is defined as small town centers, economically-obsolete shopping centers or non-viable/closed businesses that own the underlying land, surrounded by a population of 25,000 persons within a 50 mile radius.
This represents a $1.950 trillion dollar market opportunity for Global Green Village and its affiliates to proactively promote a Greener, Friendlier, Town, City, Country and ultimately the World.
So how does this all work?
Each of these new projects will be referred to as Environmentally Profitable Partnerships (EPP) throughout the nation.
Each EPP includes GGV as the lead partner in conjunction with our strategic partners working in collaboration with the local governments. Each of the entities will have a stake in the project’s success. GGV accomplishes its goals and cities, business and land owners have revitalized property with increase value once our project is complete. Public entities will enjoy more sales and property tax revenues in these revitalized communities. GGV is an environmentally friendly capitalistic model.
Please visit the authors at : http://globalgreenvillage.org/
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There are over 65,000 target redevelopment areas in the US that GGV wants to revitalize with our new form of energy. A redevelopment area is defined as small town centers, economically-obsolete shopping centers or non-viable/closed businesses that own the underlying land, surrounded by a population of 25,000 persons within a 50 mile radius.
This represents a $1.950 trillion dollar market opportunity for Global Green Village and its affiliates to proactively promote a Greener, Friendlier, Town, City, Country and ultimately the World.
So how does this all work?
Each of these new projects will be referred to as Environmentally Profitable Partnerships (EPP) throughout the nation.
Each EPP includes GGV as the lead partner in conjunction with our strategic partners working in collaboration with the local governments. Each of the entities will have a stake in the project’s success. GGV accomplishes its goals and cities, business and land owners have revitalized property with increase value once our project is complete. Public entities will enjoy more sales and property tax revenues in these revitalized communities. GGV is an environmentally friendly capitalistic model.
Please visit the authors at : http://globalgreenvillage.org/
For more information about how to create Green jobs in your community, please contact :
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Understanding Green Schools
For a free copy of the webinar titled " Understanding Green Schools ", please contact :
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