Berkeley Lab
By Robert Gluck on November 19, 2009
Tags: Canada, United States, USD, Al Gore, Arizona, Berkeley Lab, Conference, electricity usage, energy consumption, energy efficiency, green building, Greenbuild 2009, greenhouse gas emissions, new technology, Sheryl Crow, U.S. Green Building Council, United States, USGBC, Al Gore, American Southwest, Arizona, Congress, electricity, energy, Michelle Obama, Middle Tennessee State University, Rick Fedrizzi, Sheryl Crow, Tennessee, Tradeshow Week, U.S. Congress
If you went to the American Southwest this fall perhaps you got to see Al Gore and Sheryl Crow. But they weren’t the main attractions. Green building took center stage. The former vice-president and the singer/songwriter were on hand this month for the world’s largest conference dedicated to green building--Greenbuild 2009.
By Robert Gluck on September 4, 2009
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Denny's, Phoenix Business Journal, SmithGroup, United States, USD, Arizona Biomedical Collaborative, Berkeley Lab, building emissions, carbon emissions, Denny's, Edith Green/Wendell Wyatt Federal Building, energy consumption, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, Morgan Mail Processing Facility, New York, Phoenix, Portland, Arizona, Arizona State University, Berkeley Lab, California, Edith Green, electricity, energy, Fifth Buren, food, Illinois, Joey Terrell, oil, Oregon, Preston Koerner, U.S. Department of Energy, University of Arizona, University of California, Van Buren, Wendell Wyatt
Consider this: buildings in the U.S., according to scientists at Berkeley Lab, consume 72 percent of electricity produced, and 55 percent of natural gas use. They account for about 40 percent of total U.S. energy consumption (costing $350 billion per year) and greenhouse gas emissions.
