Industrial Revolution 2

Very happy to see this great info all in one place. I know what I’m doing this weekend. Reading:
State of Green Business

Includes the following:

Food Companies Supply Chains

Carbon Management

Building Efficiency and Retrofits

Green Innovation

Corporate Climate Management

The Business Case For Sustainability, that could make you a millions

Financing

Toxics Become a Strategic Issue

IT Offsets Its Wwn Carbon Footprint

Car Fleets

Green Business Opportunities in China

Green Marketing

How to Size Up the Triple Bottom Line

Forest Carbon Markets

Green Job Creation

Green Business and Building Forcasts

10 Climate Trends

Green Business Decade in Review

DOE: Building Energy Codes – Home

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Energy Codes Program is an information resource on national model energy codes. We work with other government agencies, state and local jurisdictions, national code organizations, and industry to promote stronger building energy codes and help states adopt, implement, and enforce those codes.

The Program recognizes that energy codes maximize energy efficiency only when they are fully embraced by users and supported through education, implementation, and enforcement.

Here’s the site.

Technorati Tags:
Construction, Building Codes, Green Building Codes

By AL GORE</ br>Published: February 27, 2010</ br>It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it. </ br>Of course, we would still need to deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence on a global oil market dominated by dwindling reserves in the most unstable region of the world, and the economic risks of sending hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas in return for that oil. And we would still trail China in the race to develop smart grids, fast trains, solar power, wind, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy — the most important sources of new jobs in the 21st century.

via Op-Ed Contributor – We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change – NYTimes.com.

How to turn blueprints green

Open-source program developed at MIT allows architects and engineers to optimize a building’s energy systems early in the design process

via How to turn blueprints green.

Bloom Energy Promises Cheap, Emissions-Free Power From a Small Box

Google, eBay, FedEx have already started using Bloom Boxes
By Jeremy HsuPosted
02.22.2010 at 11:58 am24

Bloom Box Can these boxes do away with traditional power plants and the power grid? CBSA boxy power plant that could one day produce efficient, inexpensive, clean energy in every home might sound like a pipe dream, but its the very real product of a Silicon Valley startup called Bloom Energy. Twenty large corporations that include Google, FedEx, Walmart and eBay have already purchased and begun testing the Bloom Boxes. 60 Minutes recently got a sneak peek at this possibly game-changing energy device.

See the rest of the article here: Bloom Energy Promises Cheap, Emissions-Free Power From a Small Box | Popular Science.

Finally, rational talk about energy and climate.
What are the options. What are the pros and cons…
Do yourself a favor and clear up any confusion that
you may have as a result of media PR campaigns and
sound bites.
Here is it: Innovating to Zero