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Yellowstone National Park officials have proposed a new option for managing motorized winter use based on limiting noise in the park, instead of limiting the number of snowmobiles or snowcoaches.
Yellowstone is one of my favorite places in the world (at least places I’ve been lucky enough [...]
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energy issues in the built environment
Month: February, 2012
A Different Way to Evaluate Outcomes?
M&A in the Home Peformance World
Interesting development, but not at all surprising given the changes Recurve has gone through in the recent past.
Tendril is purchasing Recurve, an energy audit and retrofit company, to integrate its software into the Tendril platform.
Recurve has gone through a few retrofits of its own during its eight-year history. Last year, the company shifted its [...]
ASHRAE Publications: The Value (and Risk) of Information Sharing
Many readers recognize that I put a high value on the disclosure of building performance data. For all the benefits of information sharing, there are also downside risks. This is also true of innovative system designs and building research in general. For the industry as a whole, the benefits outweigh the risks. Publishing system failures [...]
Business Decisions on Legislative Speculation
On the issue of “sustainable” investment from a former VP (and Goldman partner):
The Blood and Gore manifesto also wants firms to have to account for assets that might become “stranded” —worth much less—in the event of policy changes such as the imposition of a price on carbon emissions or higher charges for [...]
Follow Up to LIHEAP Post
A convenient (albeit indirect) follow-up to my previous post was written for me by Alex T at MarginalRevolution. He links to a NYT article on the welfare state and produces the following graphic, which speaks to “the appropriate (inappropriate?) role of government question….
Energy Policy for Low-Income Homeowners
The outpouring of response on the recent NYT article about the Hartford family, who had tried to exchange the title to their 16 year old Lincoln Town Car for fuel oil, has brought to light one of the reasons I starting writing DSS in the first place: the intersection of public policy [...]
Good News….Bad News….
First, the good news:
US technology firm the Joseph Company International has unveiled an energy drink in what it claims is the worlds first self-chilling can, featuring a heat exchanger and cooled using carbon dioxide. West Coast Chill is a new drink devised to be sold in a can which uses Joseph’s [...]