The United States, the single largest energy consumer in the world, is also among the largest polluters in the world. Each year, Americans waste energy worth billions of dollars, and a large portion of that waste comes from residential and transportation activities. In recent years global warming has become a cause for concern, as has the imminent peaking of world production of fossil fuels such as petroleum and natural gas.
In these circumstances, wasting energy is no longer an option. Policy makers have recommended several mitigation strategies that aim to reduce the usage of fossil fuels by increasing efficiency and expanding the supply of alternatives.
On the personal front, individuals can increase efficiency, which in return can give them financial benefits in terms of lower energy bills. There are several actions that can help to save energy in homes and offices. Energy efficient improvements not only make a home more comfortable, but they can also yield long-term financial rewards. The key to achieving these savings is a whole-house energy-efficiency plan. In this approach, you begin by ascertaining which parts of your house use the most energy. A home energy audit helps to pinpoint those areas and points you toward the best measures for cutting usage.
Energy Savings Guide is a detailed handbook for reducing energy usage at home, at the office, and on the road. It provides energy-saving tips that you can implement in your own home: from efficiency in electricity usage to managing appliances, lighting, insulation, heating/cooling systems, and more. It gives you simple energy-saving tips for designing and remodeling homes. It discusses various ways to generate your own clean electricity using solar, wind, and small hydropower systems.
This guide also provides easy solutions for making your workplace greener. You'll find tips on handling office equipment such as computers, printers, and fax machines, on recycling waste paper, and on efficiently using office stationary. You’ll learn about ways to improve energy efficiency in your home, office, and commercial facilities.
Finally, you’ll discover energy-saving strategies for vehicles such as automobiles, trucks, and buses. You’ll get a glimpse of the technologies that will revolutionize transportation.
This handbook gives you energy-saving checklists for your home, your workplace, and your car. You’ll save money while helping to save the planet.
Energy efficiency has emerged as a major environmental issue that, due to regulation and higher energy prices, is now a growing and important energy business segment in its own right. Economic growth and consumer trends, combined with technological improvements, will only reinforce this emerging industry that is increasingly targeted by both utilities and energy services companies.
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Insight into how energy efficiency is tied to economic growth and what are the trends in both to 2014. (MORE)
Why is Lean Manufacturing or thinking so prevalent in the modern current economies of scale? To remain competitive, agile and the lowest cost producers, providers and streamlined business, getting rid of waste and being highly, consistently and sustainable is key for survival and thriving in this new economy.
Lean manufacturing or thinking is exactly what the name sounds like - it is about cut to the bone, fat-trimmed, streamlining operation and organizations.
Authors Womack and Jones define lean thinking as a set or collection of "efficiency tools" that you can unleash in your business to save money, reduce cost and waste and deliver consistent and effective service that is affordable and pleasing to your customers. (MORE)
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