[GBlist] Efficient Buildings Info Via NREL

["Bion D. Howard" <bdhoward@ix.netcom.com>]

Tally of Highly Energy-Efficient U.S. Buildings Reaches 729

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
announced last week that 729 buildings throughout the
United States have earned the EPA/DOE Energy Star.
These office and school buildings use about 40 percent less
energy than average U.S. buildings. The EPA estimates that
the buildings have saved $134 million in energy costs since
1999, avoiding the emission of 1.9 billion pounds of carbon
dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas. Among the Energy Star
buildings are 122 owned and occupied by large commercial
institutions, 204 owned by commercial real estate
organizations and leased to commercial tenants, 287 public
schools and 116 federal government facilities. See the press
release and the full list of buildings at the Energy Star News
Room on the EPA Web site at:
<http://www.epa.gov/nrgystar/news.html>.

Energy-efficient homes earned the limelight on Monday, as
15 homebuilders were lauded at the National Green Building
Conference in Seattle, Washington. The winners of the
"EnergyValue Housing Awards" were honored for using such
technologies as high-efficiency windows, insulated basement
walls, solar water heating, and geothermal heat pumps in the
homes that they built. The National Green Building
Conference was sponsored in part by DOE and its National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). See the NREL press
release at:
<http://www.nrel.gov/hot-stuff/press/1002_home_builders.html>.
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