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Home Archive by category "Sustainable Business"

Category Archives: Sustainable Business

The conflict between Net Zero Energy Buildings, and the need for EV Charging

There are two climate change related efforts which put conflicting constraints on building electrical service and energy accounting.  On the one hand we want “Net Zero Energy Buildings” where, between a combination of energy efficiency and local renewable energy (rooftop solar), the building generates all the electricity it consumes.  On the other…

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Ford meets water consumption goals two years early – does this make Ford “Sustainable”?

Ford Motors is focusing on water issues in its 15th annual Sustainability report.  The company made a commitment to aggressively step up efforts on water reduction/conservation, and is two years ahead of schedule.  We can hear Ford’s Sustainability leaders patting themselves on the back from here. One place the “Long…

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Is GM greenwashing itself with Climate Declaration and other sustainability measures?

When a big company signs an agreement to be a good environmental steward, we tend to think of greenwashing, that the company is just looking to paint themselves green and there’s no real depth to the commitment.  Today, GM became the first automaker to sign on with the Climate Declaration…

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Damned lies and statistics on the embedded energy in hybrid and regular cars

What’s the energy cost embedded in every hybrid or gasoline powered car? That is, how much energy it takes to manufacture a car is the beginning greenhouse gas footprint of that car. Every manufactured thing involves extracting raw materials, processing them into parts, assembling into the final product, etc, and…

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