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Meeting the 2030 Challenge Through Building Codes
A single chart provides the key to deciphering various building energy codes, standards and rating systems to swiftly meet the greenhouse gas reduction targets of the 2030 Challenge. More
Obama's Jobs Plan: A Cue from King Solomon
With regards to his Jobs Plan, President Obama would do well to take a cue from King Solomon. He should base his Jobs Plan on what he knows without question to be true: it is private sector investment that creates sustainable jobs, yet it goes against human nature to invest during an economic downturn unless it makes good financial sense to do so. More
The One-Year, 4.5-Million-Jobs Plan
Investing $30 billion in the private building sector to provide a ‘housing mortgage interest rate buy-down’ for homes that meet or exceed the initial energy reduction target of the widely adopted 2030 Challenge will create 4.5 million new jobs and $296 billion in direct, non-federal investment and spending while opening up a new $47.6 billion renovation market that could grow to $1 trillion by 2030. More
Buried deep within the 1,428-page Waxman-Markey climate bill (H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009) passed by the House and now on the Senate floor, is Section 201, pages 320-348. It is this section that makes H.R. 2454 worth passing. More
Are 100 New Nuclear Plants the Answer?
How much energy could we deliver by building 100 new nuclear power plants in the U.S. by 2030? More
Edward Mazria Receives Hanley Award
Architect and champion of building energy efficiency Edward Mazria was named this year’s winner of The Hanley Award for Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Housing. Mazria was selected from among 18 distinguished nominees by a panel of judges that comprised Michael J. Hanley, president of The Hanley Foundation; Frank Anton, CEO of Hanley Wood; Steven Winter, FAIA, president of Steven Winter Associates; Allison Ewing, AIA, principal of Hays + Ewing Design Studio; and Sarah Susanka, FAIA, principal of Susanka Studios. More
14x Stimulus for State and Local Governments
What if there was a way for states, cities, and counties to leverage each $1 of federal stimulus money spent to generate $14 of private spending, create 14 times the number of jobs, reimburse the federal government $3, and get $1 back to boot? Well, there is a way, the ‘14x Stimulus’ plan. More
Edward Mazria Testifies Before House Committee
On June 11, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee invited Edward Mazria to give testimony before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community on building efficiency and job creation measures in the Green Act of 2009 (H.R. 2336). More
