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Shraddha Marathe's picture

Back of the Envelope Calculator

By Shraddha Marathe posted on Thu, 2010-01-28 15:52 , 1290 reads, 2 comments
http://www.ecw.org/project.php?workid=12&resultid=...

Created by Energy Center of Wisconsin

 

You might be pondering these questions:

- What happens to cooling costs if I double my roof insulation?

- Does lighting efficiency also affect heating energy?

- Does it cost a lot to keep my building open longer?

- What if my building was made of glass?

- How much CO2 will this building produce annually?

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Are you REALLY using Geothermal Energy?

By Steve Benz posted on Thu, 2009-07-16 07:47 , 1077 reads, 1 comment

SO you want to include geothermal energy on your building project!

 

I remember when I was a kid watching the nightly news.  Off the coast of Iceland, the Atlantic Continental Rift was tearing the world apart, and hot magma was spewing forth to create the new island of Surtsey.  Night after night on TV we saw nature's fury--incredible sources of energy from within the earth itself--unleashed to demonstrate just how powerful geothermal energy can be.read more


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Philip Parsons's picture

What is an ECODISTRICT?

By Philip Parsons posted on Fri, 2009-06-26 16:06 , 473 reads, 0 comments

If you Google "EcoDistrict", you mostly find greenfield or brownfield sites transformed into comprehensive sustainable communities in Northern Europe.  These are somewhat utopian projects that tell us little about how to make our existing cities into sustainable communities - but existing cities account for the vast majority of global population, and the vast majority of the global carbon footprint. 

 

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Competing to Conserve Energy

By Philip Parsons posted on Fri, 2009-06-26 15:57 , 158 reads, 0 comments
http://www.energysmackdown.com/

How your local community is stimulating community process and carbon footprint reduction


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Energy Benchmarking Projects

By Meredith Elbaum posted on Fri, 2009-06-19 11:03 , 522 reads, 1 comment

As a helpful exercise to get a sense for how we are doing at reducing energy in our building projects, Sasaki created this chart to show the trends in building performance as determined through energy modeling.  The chart shows the types of building projects and their projected energy performance above a "average" building of the same type.  The goals from the 2030 Challenge are shown as a comparison point for how these projects track against those targets.

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