Maria Gallucci
writes:
Architecture 2030, a building sector research and advocacy group, issued a report last week asserting that the greening of the U.S. building sector is on track to deliver far more energy savings than government officials predicted only a handful of years ago, with important implications for the country's energy and climate picture. [...]
Energy consumption from buildings will increase by 14 percent from 2005 to 2030, the EIA said, down from the 44 percent spike it predicted seven years ago. Architecture 2030 says it amounts to eliminating the electricity output from 490 500-megawatt coal-fired plants over the same 25-year period.
The new projections mean Americans will save an additional $3.7 trillion on energy bills through 2030.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2005:
Permit me to indulge in a bit of timely nostalgia: Two years ago to this very day, on a chilly (but not bitter) winter night, fifteen New Yorkers of all stripes crowded into a tiny bar in lower Manhattan for the very, very first Dean meetup ever. Perhaps a couple of hundred other Americans were doing the same thing in different spots around the country.
We were from Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan; we were young and not so young; we were black, white and Asian; we were gay, we were straight - in other words, we were a quintessentially New York crowd. And above all, we were excited about this guy named Howard Dean, who was running for president and saying the kind of things we had all been longing to hear.
Our enthusiasm, though, was tempered a bit by our uncertainty. No one had heard a peep from the campaign (which had only posted a link to Meetup.com on its website a few days earlier - quite some time after Jerome Armstrong first started promoting it at MyDD). Meetup (the company) had also never done political gatherings before, so they were not in a position to offer much guidance, either.
What struck me most - what surprised me most - was that I alone among this group had previously worked on a political campaign. [...]
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