Wednesday, April 2, 2008
The City of San Francisco will soon swank the greenest buildings in USA. The local government last week took a serious step towards agreeing what are perhaps the toughest environmental construction standards in America. Companies and families planning who are planning to build houses and offices might be required to earn green points by introducing water and energy saving measures, if failing they will risk losing their construction permits.
Now construction is not an attractive area of climate policy, but it is one in which huge profits can be made at relatively little cost. For example, existing technologies such as solar water heaters can reduce greenhouse emissions from a building by one-third. Yet authorities regulating the housing booms in places like south-west American and many cities across China have done little to support such measures.
Now construction is not an attractive area of climate policy, but it is one in which huge profits can be made at relatively little cost. For example, existing technologies such as solar water heaters can reduce greenhouse emissions from a building by one-third. Yet authorities regulating the housing booms in places like south-west American and many cities across China have done little to support such measures.
posted by We buy houses
@ 2:33 AM
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