Alternative Energy - Feeling the Heat

Putting a green twist on history - Altoona Mirror
- Use of a live roof: Nearly 81,000 square feet of vegetated roof surface and nearly 5,600 square feet of highly reflective roof surface reduces summer solar heat gain. - Landscape shading on the east side of the auditorium. - Recycled building

Company touts window film as energy saver - GoDanRiver.com
A local company is selling and installing window films for cars, homes and commercial buildings that it says can cut energy costs substantially. Joanne and Roger Nester, representatives of Advance Tinting Systems of Danville, touted their products

Challenges To Environmentally Responsible Energy Use In Today’s - Science Daily
If that s a California clich , or if you never had a convertible, or if your hair was not that plentiful to start with, think about other lifetime memories: your first flight, your family road trip to Yellowstone, friendships made around the

Obama economic recovery plan includes vast public works program - International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON : Saying that the U.S. economy would probably worsen before it improved, President-elect Barack Obama on Sunday pledged to pursue a recovery plan “equal to the task ahead,” with a vast public works program built around not just bridge and

Solar heat beats winter fuel woes - HometownAnnapolis.com
Peter Scott Lord describes how a new solar panel heats air drawn from his Cape St. Claire home. The building contractor has become a dealer for the Solarsheat brand of heater. In the scramble to find ways to save money on winter heating bills, some

How to upgrade your windows and save on energy - Dallas Morning News
For the last several years in Dallas, code has required low-E windows for all new construction. According to Jim Benney, executive director of the nonprofit National Fenestration Rating Council, low-E (which stands for low emission) windows were