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Recent News ArticlesWaitress inspired to green-up businessesFrom Efficiency News - Sightline Daily. Published on Mar 11, 2010. In Gresham, 80 businesses are already certified as "green" by a new city program that's aiming to certify 200 businesses by year's end. Certification provides positive publicity and outside validation of their greening-up efforts.Taking a cue from LA's green schoolsFrom Efficiency News - Sightline Daily. Published on Mar 08, 2010. With 14,000 buildings housing 700,000 students spread over 710 square miles serviced by 1,300 school buses, LA's school district is one of the largest users of water and energy in the state of California. Now an ambitious sustainability program has been implemented to reduce the districts environmental impact and, in the process, save money, improve student performance and serve as a hands-on teaching tool.WA weatherization gets slow startFrom Efficiency News - Sightline Daily. Published on Mar 08, 2010. Last year Washington state received nearly $60 million in stimulus funds to make low-income homes more energy efficient. Contractors prepared for more business, and training programs scaled up to teach workers how to install insulation and repair leaky windows. But the anticipated windfall of jobs and work has been slow to arrive.Views: Efficiency is key to clean energy futureFrom Efficiency News - Sightline Daily. Published on Mar 04, 2010. The Northwest's official electric power planning agency has confirmed, once again, that energy efficiency is the best and cheapest way to cover the next generation's electricity needs.Going green on a budget gets a boostFrom Efficiency News - Sightline Daily. Published on Mar 03, 2010. Clean Energy Works Portland, a new pilot project, plans to help 300 qualifying homeowners cut their energy costs by helping them clear financial obstacles to making their homes more energy efficient.Document Actions |
