The document discusses the growing market for sustainable building materials in the United States. It notes that by 2035, 80% of the built environment will be new or renovated, presenting an opportunity to use more sustainable materials. Additionally, the document outlines the 2030 Challenge to make all new buildings carbon neutral by 2030 in an effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the building sector. It promotes Hemcrete as a sustainable building material that can help meet this challenge.
Made in America: How Increased Domestic Energy Production Affects YouSkanska USA
Energy is the lifeblood of everything we do. From business to transportation to our social life, we all depend on energy supplies to power our world. We are at a crossroads in the U.S. as new energy resources and an increased emphasis on efficiency is shifting the balance of power in America’s favor. In light of these developments, Skanska examined the trends in U.S. energy production and consumption, as well as the benefits we may incur from increased domestic energy production. The country is on track to become the world’s largest oil producer in less than a decade and the U.S. is currently the world’s largest producer of natural gas. The world is taking notice. What do all these energy developments mean for you? A cleaner environment, higher GDP and industrial and job growth are just a few benefits of our increased domestic energy production.
Article published in the Tennessean discussing how the transition to a Green Economy can create economic development, reduce our dependency of foreign sources of energy and mitigate the potential impacts of climate change
Construction industry infographic developed by Balboa Capital, a leading independent financing company headquartered in Irvine, California. This Balboa Capital infographic features key numbers and statistics regarding the construction industry in the United States.
Made in America: How Increased Domestic Energy Production Affects YouSkanska USA
Energy is the lifeblood of everything we do. From business to transportation to our social life, we all depend on energy supplies to power our world. We are at a crossroads in the U.S. as new energy resources and an increased emphasis on efficiency is shifting the balance of power in America’s favor. In light of these developments, Skanska examined the trends in U.S. energy production and consumption, as well as the benefits we may incur from increased domestic energy production. The country is on track to become the world’s largest oil producer in less than a decade and the U.S. is currently the world’s largest producer of natural gas. The world is taking notice. What do all these energy developments mean for you? A cleaner environment, higher GDP and industrial and job growth are just a few benefits of our increased domestic energy production.
Article published in the Tennessean discussing how the transition to a Green Economy can create economic development, reduce our dependency of foreign sources of energy and mitigate the potential impacts of climate change
Construction industry infographic developed by Balboa Capital, a leading independent financing company headquartered in Irvine, California. This Balboa Capital infographic features key numbers and statistics regarding the construction industry in the United States.
As a driver who received their driver’s license in the year of 2008 I remember the high cost of gasoline, and wondered what if I had a hybrid or electric car. I thought to myself would I really be saving money or doing anything really work while for the environment. Could there possible be some subtle benefits that I wouldn’t notice.
Renewable energy not in the news 04092020 finalTony Green
Considering climate change, the Green New Deal, the upcoming presidential election, and now the outbreak of the Coronavirus there has little news about renewable energy. While not in the headlines Renewable Energy technologies had been quietly added, slowly but surely moving to a world which produces its energy without fossil fuels. But adoption is not guaranteed, and certain things need to happen before the renewable energy future which has been promised can become a reality.
Article published in MTSU's Tennessee's Business Journal discussing how clean energy technology and supporting legislation could be used as an economic engine to create employment, expand business revenues all while helping the environment.
The fleet of resources that produces U.S. electricity is still dominated by coal-fired generation. Natural gas electricity generation brings more price volatility to electric rates. Retail electricity prices continue on an upward trend.
This session, “The Energy Revolution: Finding Powerful Stories Everywhere,” was first offered as part of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association’s annual conference on Aug. 23, 2013.
You keep hearing about “fracking” in western Pennsylvania and North Dakota, but can’t imagine how it would affect your community.
Marilyn Geewax, a senior business editor with NPR, will help you understand how this unleashing of massive supplies of fossil fuels is changing all of our lives. The energy revolution is making U.S. manufacturing competitive again and soon could be generating millions of jobs from Maine to California. And it’s having a broad impact on the environment, tax revenues and politics.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Every American has a stake in these changes; all journalists need to understand the basics – and to look for the local angles. Here’s what this session will help you understand:
1) Fracking – What exactly is it, and why does this drilling process generate so much oil and gas – and controversy? Get familiar with the basic terms of the debate so you feel comfortable setting out to tell a story about it.
2) Manufacturing – Economists say fracking is transforming manufacturing. Huh? Get a clearer understanding of the direct link between the drilling process and the revival of many factories.
3) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs – Many optimists say the energy revolution will help create millions of jobs. Some communities will be building bigger ports to export liquefied natural gas and others will be gaining pipeline-construction jobs. Many may be able to build new infrastructure with revenues from drilling leases. But if cheap energy makes it easier to automate, will some jobs be lost?
4) The Environment – Environmentalists are raising serious questions about water use, pollution, earthquakes, and the overall wisdom of increasing the use of fossil fuels like oil and gas. What’s at stake?
5) The Local Angle –The energy revolution is generating changes all around us – and you, as a journalist, will see the local angles once you know how to spot changes in your own community.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Marilyn Geewax is a senior business editor on NPR’s national desk and its national economics correspondent. She was the national economics correspondent for Cox Newspapers’ Washington Bureau. Before coming to Washington in 1999, she worked for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, first as a business reporter and then as a columnist and editorial board member.
From 2001 to 2006, she taught a business journalism class as an adjunct professor at George Washington University.
For more information about training for business journalists, please visit businessjournalism.org.
Honeywell VP of Global Energy Kent Anson addresses Bright Green attendees in Copenhagen on December 13 with a frank account of the opportunities and challenges associated with commercial and industrial energy efficiency campaigns. He examines the role that green buildings play in climate change efforts through case studies on Honeywell’s work with CCI cities such as Seoul and Melbourne. Nearly 50% of Honeywell’s product portfolio is linked to energy efficiency and the company estimates that the global economy could operate on 10-25% less energy just by using today’s existing Honeywell technologies. For more information go to http://honeywellnow.com
Meeting the Billing and Payment Needs of MillennialsFiserv
The millennial generation is coming of age, taking on more financial responsibility and beginning to flex their financial and social muscle. Billing organizations must know how to serve and satisfy millennials’ unique billing and payment practices and preferences.
Webinar Replay:
http://fisv.co/millennial-payments-webinar
Research Paper:
http://fisv.co/millennial-payments-research
Consumer Perspectives on Brand Preference: A Choice Based Model Approachiosrjce
IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of business and managemant and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications inbusiness and management. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Website usability best practices a marketing perspectiveRegalix
USABILITY: Wikipedia definition: A term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool
Providing people an easy to use service for a need
The user should know exactly where she is, and should know fairly well what’s next
For an application site, giving access to start of all use-cases is critical
Be available to help users (just like in a real world store, office)
Allow users to easily recover from mistakes
Make it easy to recover from system failures
The ultimate in giving control to the user!
Gives the user higher sense of control
Remember what the user did last, and if appropriate, start from there – logins, passwords, recent searches, recent transactions, etc.
Make things look as you want users to interact with them (affordance)
If an interaction has been made simple, check if you can make it simpler!
Focusing on Usability is no different than focusing on Customer Experience!
And marketers ARE focused on Customer Experience
It is just that Customer Experience in context of web applications has become a specialized science, and Marketers need to focus on it
Usability of your systems can increase ROI. Some examples:
“We want to increase the registration rate on our site from the current 3%, to 5% or above.” [Web2.0 Photo Application Site]
“The average time it takes our customer service representative (CSR) to service a customer is about 8 minutes. We wish to reduce this to 6.5 minutes.” [Banking Firm]
“The average time a customer stands in the queue to transact is about 4 minutes. We wish to reduce it to sub 3 minutes.” [Library]
Is the end-to-end process usable?
Are the different touch points usable?
Lead form fill-up
Call-back, calling process
Application process
Reaction times
Information collateral
Is the customer happy with the product?
Do more in less time
Explore more things that you have on offer
As a driver who received their driver’s license in the year of 2008 I remember the high cost of gasoline, and wondered what if I had a hybrid or electric car. I thought to myself would I really be saving money or doing anything really work while for the environment. Could there possible be some subtle benefits that I wouldn’t notice.
Renewable energy not in the news 04092020 finalTony Green
Considering climate change, the Green New Deal, the upcoming presidential election, and now the outbreak of the Coronavirus there has little news about renewable energy. While not in the headlines Renewable Energy technologies had been quietly added, slowly but surely moving to a world which produces its energy without fossil fuels. But adoption is not guaranteed, and certain things need to happen before the renewable energy future which has been promised can become a reality.
Article published in MTSU's Tennessee's Business Journal discussing how clean energy technology and supporting legislation could be used as an economic engine to create employment, expand business revenues all while helping the environment.
The fleet of resources that produces U.S. electricity is still dominated by coal-fired generation. Natural gas electricity generation brings more price volatility to electric rates. Retail electricity prices continue on an upward trend.
This session, “The Energy Revolution: Finding Powerful Stories Everywhere,” was first offered as part of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association’s annual conference on Aug. 23, 2013.
You keep hearing about “fracking” in western Pennsylvania and North Dakota, but can’t imagine how it would affect your community.
Marilyn Geewax, a senior business editor with NPR, will help you understand how this unleashing of massive supplies of fossil fuels is changing all of our lives. The energy revolution is making U.S. manufacturing competitive again and soon could be generating millions of jobs from Maine to California. And it’s having a broad impact on the environment, tax revenues and politics.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Every American has a stake in these changes; all journalists need to understand the basics – and to look for the local angles. Here’s what this session will help you understand:
1) Fracking – What exactly is it, and why does this drilling process generate so much oil and gas – and controversy? Get familiar with the basic terms of the debate so you feel comfortable setting out to tell a story about it.
2) Manufacturing – Economists say fracking is transforming manufacturing. Huh? Get a clearer understanding of the direct link between the drilling process and the revival of many factories.
3) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs – Many optimists say the energy revolution will help create millions of jobs. Some communities will be building bigger ports to export liquefied natural gas and others will be gaining pipeline-construction jobs. Many may be able to build new infrastructure with revenues from drilling leases. But if cheap energy makes it easier to automate, will some jobs be lost?
4) The Environment – Environmentalists are raising serious questions about water use, pollution, earthquakes, and the overall wisdom of increasing the use of fossil fuels like oil and gas. What’s at stake?
5) The Local Angle –The energy revolution is generating changes all around us – and you, as a journalist, will see the local angles once you know how to spot changes in your own community.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Marilyn Geewax is a senior business editor on NPR’s national desk and its national economics correspondent. She was the national economics correspondent for Cox Newspapers’ Washington Bureau. Before coming to Washington in 1999, she worked for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, first as a business reporter and then as a columnist and editorial board member.
From 2001 to 2006, she taught a business journalism class as an adjunct professor at George Washington University.
For more information about training for business journalists, please visit businessjournalism.org.
Honeywell VP of Global Energy Kent Anson addresses Bright Green attendees in Copenhagen on December 13 with a frank account of the opportunities and challenges associated with commercial and industrial energy efficiency campaigns. He examines the role that green buildings play in climate change efforts through case studies on Honeywell’s work with CCI cities such as Seoul and Melbourne. Nearly 50% of Honeywell’s product portfolio is linked to energy efficiency and the company estimates that the global economy could operate on 10-25% less energy just by using today’s existing Honeywell technologies. For more information go to http://honeywellnow.com
Meeting the Billing and Payment Needs of MillennialsFiserv
The millennial generation is coming of age, taking on more financial responsibility and beginning to flex their financial and social muscle. Billing organizations must know how to serve and satisfy millennials’ unique billing and payment practices and preferences.
Webinar Replay:
http://fisv.co/millennial-payments-webinar
Research Paper:
http://fisv.co/millennial-payments-research
Consumer Perspectives on Brand Preference: A Choice Based Model Approachiosrjce
IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of business and managemant and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications inbusiness and management. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Website usability best practices a marketing perspectiveRegalix
USABILITY: Wikipedia definition: A term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool
Providing people an easy to use service for a need
The user should know exactly where she is, and should know fairly well what’s next
For an application site, giving access to start of all use-cases is critical
Be available to help users (just like in a real world store, office)
Allow users to easily recover from mistakes
Make it easy to recover from system failures
The ultimate in giving control to the user!
Gives the user higher sense of control
Remember what the user did last, and if appropriate, start from there – logins, passwords, recent searches, recent transactions, etc.
Make things look as you want users to interact with them (affordance)
If an interaction has been made simple, check if you can make it simpler!
Focusing on Usability is no different than focusing on Customer Experience!
And marketers ARE focused on Customer Experience
It is just that Customer Experience in context of web applications has become a specialized science, and Marketers need to focus on it
Usability of your systems can increase ROI. Some examples:
“We want to increase the registration rate on our site from the current 3%, to 5% or above.” [Web2.0 Photo Application Site]
“The average time it takes our customer service representative (CSR) to service a customer is about 8 minutes. We wish to reduce this to 6.5 minutes.” [Banking Firm]
“The average time a customer stands in the queue to transact is about 4 minutes. We wish to reduce it to sub 3 minutes.” [Library]
Is the end-to-end process usable?
Are the different touch points usable?
Lead form fill-up
Call-back, calling process
Application process
Reaction times
Information collateral
Is the customer happy with the product?
Do more in less time
Explore more things that you have on offer
Expectations & Experiences, the quarterly consumer trends survey from Fiserv, revealed unique insight into people's perceptions about their credit score - and what drives their behavior. This excerpt is from Expectations & Experiences: Channels & New Entrants, 2016. Learn more: https://fisv.co/expectations-channels.
Gamification...should you gamify your business ??Divya Sangwan
Should you Gamify your business?
The new talk of the town is Gamification and how in the new future it will rule the Business world.
The Gartner Group has projected 50% of corporate innovation will be "Gamified" by 2015. Deloitte called Gamification one of the Top 10 Technology Trends for 2012.
Studies claim the use of game mechanics will become embedded in daily life by 2020.
It’s the process of applying game mechanics to activities that aren't games and is rapidly becoming a big business.
So what’s making Gamification so popular today? Let’s learn more about Gamification, why is it becoming increasingly popular and how it’s helping marketers across the world enhance marketing campaigns.
The reality for companies that are trying to figure out their blogging or content strategy is that there's a lot of content to write beyond just the "buy now" page.
The future of home remodeling and renovation will play a larger role in homeowners building product purchasing and improvement strategy for years to come.
A presentation on several key drivers impacting the green building construction market. Highlights include regulations, legislation and incentives affecting designers, contractors and building owners. The presentation has been given publicly several times in 2009 and 2010.
L. Hunter Lovins at the Iowa Environmental Council's annual conferenceiaenvironment
L. Hunter Lovins delivered the keynote address at the Iowa Environmental Council's annual conference, "Finding Iowa's Way: Economic Solutions for a Healthier Environment," held October 4, 2012, in Des Moines.
DO GREEN PROGRAMS CREATE JOBS OR DESTROY JOBS?AJHSSR Journal
ABSTRACT: Green jobs are of intense interest in the USA – especially the issue of net job creation: Do
green programs create jobs or destroy jobs?We determine that there are two issues: 1) the issue of when
investing a specified amount in a green jobs initiative, how many jobs are created compared to investing the
same amount in other programs; 2) the issue of whether the creation of jobs via green initiatives destroys “nongreen” jobs.Here we address thesecritical questions by analyzing the major studies conducted. We find that
there are numerous studies finding both that green programs create jobs and that green programs destroy jobs.
Nevertheless, we conclude, with caveats, that rigorous review of the existing research indicates that investments
in environmental and green economy programs will likely have substantial net positive impacts on the economy
and jobs. We caution that the net positive economic and jobs impacts, while significant for policy purposes,
should not obscure the fact that the major purpose of these programs is the energy and environmental and
benefits they will create -- jobs benefits are an important secondary benefit, but must be evaluated as such.
KEY WORDS: green jobs; USA green jobs; net green jobs; green jobs creation; green jobs vs. non-green
jobs
The homes we build today must meet the needs of tomorrow.
As we work towards a global goal of zero net emissions by 2050, Australia’s home building sector faces a monumental challenge.
Our homes already produce around 13 per cent of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. If our population continues to grow at its current rate, to an estimated 31 million people by 2030, we will need to construct as many as 197,000 homes a year. Whether these homes help or harm our planet is up to us.
Sustainable homes require less energy to heat and cool, enhance occupant comfort and are more resilient to climate and weather extremes.
Sustainable homes can also be a driver for economic growth. Preliminary economic modelling undertaken by the CRC for Low Carbon Living and ASBEC has found that accelerating Australia’s transition to sustainable housing would deliver more than half a billion dollars of extra investment in the construction industry by 2030 and create over 7,000 new jobs. It would also save Australians $600 million on their energy bills.
These are big opportunities. But we have found several significant challenges that must be overcome first. Consumers are unclear of their choices – and are baffled by the terminology that describes sustainable features and technologies. Home builders are locked into business models and supply chains that limit innovation. And financiers don’t value sustainable homes.
The CRC for Low Carbon Living and ASBEC have worked with industry partners and government to identify what’s needed to grow a thriving market for better quality, sustainable and liveable homes.
We have developed this ‘Sustainable Homes Transition Roadmap’ to accelerate action, with four clearly defined steps: differentiate sustainable housing in the market; train and reward the construction industry; build awareness; and broadcast the positive business case.
Australia’s world-leading approach to sustainability in the commercial sector underscores the opportunity. We have the skills, knowledge and technologies at our disposal. Now we must create the right policies and incentives to help Australian consumers capture the benefits of sustainable homes.
Prof. Deo Prasad
CRC for Low Carbon Living
The White House background sheet on climate policies, posted in relation to this piece on Dot Earth: Obama's Path from Rhetoric to Reality on Energy and Climate http://nyti.ms/VbZxMc
Energy Efficiency: Meeting the Challenge & Fueling A Better Built EnvironmentAlliance To Save Energy
More than 40 leaders in industry, finance, research, and policy convened at La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, Calif., to discuss critical issues and opportunities for the HVAC&R industry, including climate change, energy efficiency, refrigerants and pending federal legislation.
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