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With so much misinformation consumers are not being given good information about lighting. Especially the particularly poor reporting about the ongoing elimination of 100w, 75w, 60w, and 40 incandescent lamps from the national inventory. In fact, incandescent lighting is not being eliminated or outlawed...

Although LED lighting has many potential advantages, energy savings is the one that attracts the most attention. But the energy savings during the course of a product’s lifetime only tell part of the story. To gauge a product’s full impact – not only in terms of energy consumption,...

Take a second to think about all the energy your office wastes on a daily basis. Leaving office and kitchen lights on when nobody is in the room, letting appliances stay on all day and forgetting to turn your computer off at night are just a few of the big energy wasters. There are two key reasons your...

These days it seems like every company is trying to go green, and we’ll be the first to back those efforts up. To prove how supportive we are, we decided to bring back our “Green Office Tip of the Week” segment this week to offer up our thoughts on how your company can improve its recycling...

In Seattle, there is a movement underway. It is being undertaken by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance and the goals are very lofty. If just 16 percent of the commercial building space in the metro Seattle area made energy-efficiency renovations, the energy savings could reach nearly 100 average...

The past decade has witnessed a burst of product innovation in the FM arena. LEDs are a good example. After years of development, they’re clearly ready for prime time, with LED products available for a wide range of lighting applications. Another example is video analytics. That technology didn’t...

Justifying an energy efficiency project requires facility executives to walk the fine line between salesmanship and exaggeration, said Richard Lubinski, president of Think Energy Management , at the Facility Decisions conference and exposition in Las Vegas. (For more on his session, click here .) To...

Want to improve your chances of convincing bean counters that investments in energy projects are worthwhile? Stop talking about payback periods and start talking about return on investment, said speakers at the Facility Decisions conference and exposition in Las Vegas. Alan Whitson, president, The Corporate...

Changes taking place at the Sears Tower go beyond a name change, though "Willis Tower" will become the Chicago landmark's official name in July. According to an article in the Chicago Tribune , the owners of the tower unveiled a plan Wednesday to reduce electricity use by up to 80 percent...