Dan Geiger
Executive Director
USGBC-Northern California Chapter
Blog
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Renewable Petroleum a Possibility?
University of Minnesota researchers have discovered a crucial key to unlocking the possibility of renewable petroleum fuels using bacteria, sunlight, and dioxide.
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You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure: Building-Level Metering
As the Manager of USGBC’s Building Performance Partnership and Recertification programs here at USGBC, I spend my time thinking over and over again about which aspects of building operations should be regularly monitored and which make the maximum contribution to the continuous high-performance of each building. We have to figure out how to encourage building operators to look at the holistic performance of their buildings and act based on the full story – So, how do we do that? What do we ask them to monitor?
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China’s Solution: The Solar Greenhouse
Solar greenhouses have played a role in China’s agricultural scene for some time, but new innovations are taking them to the next level in addressing the global energy crisis and climate change.
A recently published report based on 20 years of systematic studies from the College of Agronomy and Biotechnology at China Agricultural University proposes that solar greenhouses can greatly improve current sustainability initiatives and goals worldwide.
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Wind and Solar Can Supply 25% of Oahu’s Electricity
The Oahu Wind Integration Study has come up with some exciting numbers regarding wind and solar energy for Hawaii.
Combined with Oahu wind farms and solar energy, the Interisland Wind project to bring 400 megawatts of wind power from Molokai and Lanai to Oahu could supply more than 25% of Oahu’s energy demands.
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USGBC and the Better Buildings Initiative: How Do We Get Started Sooner?
Pretend you are the President of the United States for a minute. The economy has pulled out of the recession, but everyone is cautious about the fragility of the recovery. To get the energy we need, we’re razing mountains in Appalachia and sending billions for oil to undemocratic, unfriendly governments in the Middle East. And last summer oil drilling trashed the Gulf of Mexico and the state economies that depend on it.
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Inviting your Organization to Join the Coalition for Green Schools
Charles J. Saylors
President
National PTAI’m asking you to join the Coalition for Green Schools not just as the President of the National PTA, but also as a parent, school board trustee and construction professional. In each of these roles I continue to see all sides of the ongoing debate about the need for better school buildings. Our children deserve a safe, secure, healthy and technologically equal learning environment.
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Gridlock on Government Spending as the House and Senate Duel Over Funding Cuts
On Wednesday, the United States Senate failed to break a stalemate on dueling proposals to fund operations of the federal government through the rest of the fiscal year.
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DOE and NREL: Zero Energy Building with Zero Added Costs?
DOE and NREL: Zero Energy Building with Zero Added Costs? That’s what I call Global Leadership. Now Let’s Keep it Up.