By Anonymous |
In recent years, smart devices such as Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Smart Home platform, and the like, have enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity. Smart fridges, televisions, showers, blenders, lights; essentially, anything with a plug or batteries can now be hooked up to your phone or watch for your leisure.
In the energy efficiency industry however, we’ve been particularly interested in how smart…
By Anonymous |
Education is the foundation for progress. We need to build global thinking on the concept of climate change, and build more awareness of its unprecedented threat to our planet. We need to inspire action in defense of environmental protection. At NEEP, we do this every day, most especially around Earth Day.
This Earth Day, not only will I be spreading awareness about climate change, but I also…
By Sue Coakley |
The US EPA’s ENERGY STAR Program, created in 1992 under the President George H. W. Bush administration, is a star performer in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic energy efficiency success story. NEEP states and efficiency programs – from the District of Columbia to Maine – rely on the ENERGY STAR label to distinguish quality and efficient lighting products, home appliances, consumer electronics, and…
By Samantha Caputo |
Welcome to the first REED Rendering issue of 2017 where we bring your attention to interesting trends that we see in the data and the stories behind those trends.
In the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, NEEP’s goal is to assist the region in reducing total carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050, relative to 2001 levels. In doing so, we recognize that energy efficiency is the least cost option for…
By Lisa Cascio |
I come from a long familial line of school teachers – my mom, one aunt, both sisters, and my brother (for a short time) all taught children of varying ages. Even though I chose not to pursue a teaching career (public relations is honorable too, right?), I value education and all of the components that come with it.
One component – often overlooked, yet very important – is a healthy learning…