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Experts Examine Future of Energy Performance

May 20, 2015 3087 Views Applied Learning Center, Education and the Environment Initiative, energy performance contract, Gov. Jay Nixon, Maintenance, School of Environmental Studies, University of Missouri College of Business

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Determining a building’s energy efficiency based solely on using predictive energy models and specifying certain design and construction attributes may be a thing of the past by the time the next generation of architects and engineers join the workforce, according to the New Buildings Institute (NBI), headquartered in Vancouver.

Citi Commits Billions to Finance Sustainable Efforts

March 4, 2015March 4, 2015 1710 Views Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Castlight Health, Connecticut Department of Corrections, Eastern U.S., Education and the Environment Initiative, James T. Powers, maternity care, Maternity Care Report

NEW YORK — Citi made a big promise last month to reduce the impact of climate change when it announced it would lend, invest and facilitate a total of $100 billion within the next 10 years to finance activities that will help the environment.

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Climate Change Panel Encourages Global Effort

April 16, 2014 1708 Views Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Education and the Environment Initiative, exhibit, Green California Leadership Award, Hennepin County Medical Center, Mike Opat, Yolo County

BERLIN, Germany — The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a new report that demonstrates the rising levels of global emissions of greenhouse gases despite a growing number of policies to reduce climate change.

The report, entitled Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, presses for major institutional and technological change in order to limit the global mean temperature to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.