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Apr 29 2010

New IBM survey suggest workers eager for smarter workplace tech

Published by Heather Clancy under building, green tech

The smarter-everything people at IBM have released a new survey this morning suggesting that even though technologies are getting “smarter” in your house, office buildings are failing to take advantage of similar innovation. The Smarter Buildings Survey covers canvassed close to 6,500 U.S. office workers in 16 different major cities. Only a third of those surveyed [...]

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Apr 22 2010

Energy-efficient lighting dominates facilities managers’ energy efficiency efforts

Published by Heather Clancy under building, conservation, energy, green tech, renewable energy

Turns out there a really good reason that our posts about more efficient lighting technology tend to get more traffic than the norm here at GreenTech Pastures: Facilities managers polled as part of the latest Energy Efficiency Indicator point to lighting as not only their top energy-efficiency measure, but also the green technology that [...]

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Apr 20 2010

Government raises bar on green tech standards for the home

Published by Heather Clancy under building, conservation, energy, environmental health, green tech, water

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to make the requirements for earning an Energy Star designation for your home more rigorous. The standards are supposed to result in the creation of new homes that about 20 percent more energy-efficient than those conforming to the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code. This would translate into utility [...]