Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The organization promotes energy efficiency and conservation by explaining the benefits of greater energy efficiency while encouraging the adoption of available technologies. It also supports a higher tax on incandescent light bulbs to make fluorescent lights more cost competitive.
The EU has recently announced its intention to cut carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2020. |
Mark Schapiro
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 European policies translate into money: $13 million (€10 million) for a feasibility study of a clean coal, carbon-sequestration project, with technology provided by the EU; $35 million (€30 million) for aid to big industries, like cement and aluminum, for increasing energy efficiency; and $500 million (€430 million) provided by member states — Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden are the biggest contributors—to sixty-five different projects aimed at increasing energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources. |
Mark Lynas
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 Pouring investment into quadrupling the numbers of gas-fuelled power stations to achieve a wedge would be unwise if gas supplies are close to peaking. energy efficiency measures have fewer drawbacks - but improving efficiency in cars and buildings can have the surprising effect of increasing power consumption overall by making energy cheaper than it would otherwise be. Wind turbines are visually intrusive, and onshore wind farms tend to be sited in highland areas which are visible for great distances. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Because of its extreme energy efficiency, the light reduces CO2 emissions by 3,570 pounds over its life, compared to a typical 40-watt light bulb. It also saves consumers $178.50 in electricity over its life, more than paying for itself in savings on the electric bill.
"This small, simple light can help consumers greatly reduce their environmental footprint while helping prevent global warming," said EcoLEDs founder Mike Adams, an outspoken advocate of natural health and environmental protection. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These bulbs substantially reduce CO2 emissions due to their high energy efficiency. To learn more, visit www.BetterLifeGoods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Only LED lights offer energy efficiency and environmental friendliness at the same time. That's why LED lighting technology represents the future for both residential and commercial lighting.
Philips says it will even stop manufacturing incandescent lights by 2016, but most consumers will have switched long before then. Within a few years, only the most financially-ignorant consumers will even consider using incandescent light bulbs. Burning a light that wastes 95% of the electricity it consumes is sort of like driving a car that gets a fuel economy of one mile per gallon. |
David Steinman
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 Although Schlussler's Sun Frost appliances are more expensive than less efficient mass-market models, their energy efficiency makes up for their added cost; he said a standard refrigerator can cost almost twice its price after adding the cost of power to run it. Even in a home using conventional utility power, energy consumption for refrigeration is typically cut by a factor of five, he said. In addition, the company provides good jobs in a county that once was so dependent on logging the last of its redwoods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Those nations that invest in education, energy efficiency and environmental cleanup in order to create a better future for their children.
Those nations that invest now in energy independence, teaching their people to use less energy while switching to vehicles that can run on electricity (which can be produced domestically in any country).
Those nations that reject elite-controlled banking and money systems and restore the power of the currency to the people, where open trade can happen with zero inflation, creating enormous abundance for the people. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Emerging inrerest in supporting an agrarian land ethic is embodied in the slow food and ear-local movements that try to shorten the distance between crop production and consumption. Yet energy efficiency in the delivery of food to the table is not some radical new idea. Romans shipped grain around the Mediterranean because the wind provided the energy needed to transport food long distances. That's why Notth Africa, Egypt, and Syria fed Rome—it was too inefficient (and difficult) to drag western European produce over the mountains into central Italy. |
Mark Lynas
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| The reality is that only a combination of serious energy efficiency and a wide variety of new technologies offer any hope of a way out of the crisis. This essential truth was illustrated very usefully a couple of years ago by Robert Socolow and Steve Pacala of Princeton University in New Jersey, USA. Their idea was to consider each technology a potential 'wedge' - one of a number of wedges which together would make the difference between an upwards emissions trend or a stabilising one. |
Mark Schapiro
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| He has a mandate similar to that of Donkers' in the United States —though of course with a far more daunting set of environmental challenges—including air and water pollution, energy efficiency, and protection from hazardous chemicals. About REACH, Gislev commented, "We are looking down the supply chain. A lot of our downstream users do business with the Chinese. |
David Steinman
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| Members of the partnership agree to utilize SmartWay-recommended techniques to increase the energy efficiency and energy security of our country. Consequendy, SmartWay Partners significantly reduce air pollution while saving money for their operations.
The process to become "qualified" took Quad/Graphics nearly two years by first measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of its operations and then developing and implementing a plan to reduce those emissions even further. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 In other words, these older folks got to where they are by slowly but surely reducing their metabolic rate. This energy efficiency is exactly what your genetic autopilot wants when it sends out signals to reduce muscle mass as you age so you'll eat less. The lower your metabolic rate, the less food you need to eat. Because this means you're not a threat to the rest of the tribe, you get to stick around. Remember those hibernating ground squirrels, with their low metabolic rate, that live five times longer than nonhibernators?5 Still having trouble with this concept? |
David Steinman
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| No wonder, then, in May 2005, General Electric promised to raise the company's overall energy efficiency by 30 percent by 2012 "to enhance the company's shareholder value."34 Five other megacorporate powers—IBM, British Telecom, Alcan,
NorskeCanada, and Bayer—have collectively saved $2 billion since the early 1990s by reducing their carbon emissions by 60 percent, said Lovins. That not only means a lower cost of living but also less toxicity to the environment and to you and your friends and neighbors and loved ones. |
Mark Schapiro
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| The Swedes have a joint renewable-energy program to increase energy efficiency. . . . Other than removing the restrictions on trade in nuclear technology, there is very little that the U.S. government has brought to the table. |
| Otherwise, the United States' primary pledge for advancing greater energy efficiency comes not in China, but at the Asia Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate, a regional alliance the United States and Australia created as an alternative to Kyoto. At the group's inaugural summit in Australia in January 2006, Bodman promised $52 million to "promote clean energy technologies" in the Asia-Pacific region. One year later that money had still not been appropriated by Congress. |
David Steinman
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| Despite short-term setbacks, America customers can still transform themselves by 2020—if they take energy efficiency seriously and see it as a vision for economic recovery, taking on a global leadership role.
Fuel cell technology propelled the next car, a Focus, which I drove at the LOHAS conference. I was with Kip Mushisky, Ford's vehicle engineer manager. I turned the key in the ignition. Inside the car was highly pressurized liquid hydrogen, extracted from natural gas, a fossil fuel.
First, hydrogen fuel flowed into one electrode. |
| Environmentally preferable attributes include reduced toxicity, the use of recycled materials, and increased energy efficiency. The federal government is required by Executive Order to purchase recycled paper products. The U.S. General Services Administration made the decision to go one step further and purchase and sell only postconsumer recycled-content copier paper to federal agencies. Copier paper accounts for over 28 percent of all the paper purchased by the federal government, with approximately 10 million sheets being used every work hour. |
Mark Schapiro
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| Environmental advocates demand the removal of toxins or ask for greater energy efficiency; industry and government claim that it is unrealistic, that we must become accustomed to trade-offs in order to enjoy our modern conveniences.
Europe is calling that bluff by demonstrating that these are false trade-offs. What Americans have been told is impossible is happening. From cosmetics to appliances, industrial chemicals to toys, the Europeans are demonstrating that there are alternatives by creating legal and financial incentives for industry to create them. |
David R. Montgomery
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| Long-term studies show that organic farming increases both energy efficiency and economic returns. Increasingly, the question appears not to be whether we can afford to go organic. Over the long run, we simply can't afford not to, despite what agribusiness interests will argue. We can greatly improve conventional farming practices from both environmental and economic perspectives by adopting elements of organic technologies. Oddly, our government subsidizes conventional farming practices, whereas the market places a premium on organic produce. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 Buildings are tightly sealed for energy efficiency and may trap chemical gasses and dust from a variety of sources. Cleaning agents left on floors and other surfaces dry and can eventually circulate on dust particles throughout the house or workplace and be inhaled with each breath. Fire retardants and other chemicals used in fabrics and foams in furniture, mattresses, and electrical insulation can be irritating to the airway. Mold can flourish wherever there is humidity—in basements, crawl spaces, bathrooms, air conditioners, and automobile air ducts. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Remember, fat storage is a survival strategy, so your body wants to maximize energy efficiency in the creation, storage and use of body fat.
It wouldn't make sense to have a lot of extra fat on your fingers and toes because you'd have to swing those around when you moved and that would require extra caloric expenditure. So given that your body wants to store fat as a way to have portable energy, it makes perfect sense that it would prefer to store that fat in your midsection. |
Alex Steffen
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 The building is encased in a structural skin of aluminum, steel, and glass, which blurs the boundaries between roof and wall and increases energy efficiency by eliminating wasted space. A unique diagonal structure allows interior spaces to be open, and interrupted only by support columns. Separating the offices are open social spaces, placed in different locations on each floor such that they spiral up the building. |
| The most exciting innovation the students involved in SmartHouse have been developing is an automated geothermal heat pump designed to increase energy efficiency. Geothermal pumps measure the difference in temperature between the constant level below the earth's frost line and the varying levels inside a house. The pump operates according to that difference, cooling indoor temperatures when they rise above underground temperatures. Think of it as all-natural air-conditioning.
A Prefab Home hh A prefab renaissance is sweeping through the housing market. |
| Start thinking now about energy efficiency as fundamental to what you buy or use. Items that waste energy (appliances that draw power even when they're "off," homes that leak heat through drafty windows) will be serious liabilities in the years to come. Key idea: Efficiency is a long-term win-win strategy.
What do you do for a living? Is your job likely to see increasing or declining demand in a time of economic stress, population migration, and environmental woe? Is the company you work for apt to be seen as a cause of these problems (justifiably or not)? |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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 If you take in more calories than you need, your energy efficiency could be as low as 25 percent. That may cause you to feel more sluggish and less sharp, and to tend to gain weight. You'd be like an old gas-guzzling car chugging along. But, on the other hand, if you take in slightly fewer calories than you need—say that magic 100 calories per day (just a handful of potato chips or a half of a chocolate bar) or you simply walk a mile, your body will turn the energy efficiency up as high as 50 percent.22 Then your body would remodel itself along the lines of a new fuel-efficient car. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 It was not a robust engineering effort in terms of energy efficiency. Yet I was able to keep the whole building comfortably warm on a winter day by firing up a small woodstove in the morning. It wasn't necessary to refire the stove until evening time. The heating bill was remarkably low. Running the house required very little work—seven minutes a day to cut kindling and another five to light fires in the stove. You might even figure in the one afternoon a year I had to spend stacking firewood delivered in a heap by dump truck. |
| The latest generation of turbines can operate at up to 90 percent energy efficiency. We've been using hydroelectric power in the United States since the first generating station on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, opened in 1882. Ten percent of electricity in the United States today comes from hydropower, compared to 40 percent in 1940. Hydro is well understood and fairly dependable. It can be done at scales from a one-household microgenerator on a creek to Hoover Dam, which lights up whole cities. |
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