From the Abstract: "Energy efficiency represents one of the most effective resources for addressing the challenges of climate change, economic productivity, and national security. All levels of government, and many businesses, rely upon accurate energy efficiency analyses in order to shape policy and outline business growth plans. Signifi ...
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Bringing Residential Energy Efficiency to Scale

From the Introduction:  "For more than thirty years, state energy officials have played a leading role in developing and implementing energy efficiency retrofit programs in residential buildings. The experience from these programs, such as the Weatherization Assistance Program for low-income families, is an important resource for the Obama admini ...
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Energy Efficiency Program Options for Local Governments under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinves...

From the Abstract:  "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) included several key funding opportunities for energy efficiency projects at the local level, including for the first time monies for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program.(1) Funding was additionally provided for state energy programs ...
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Green and Decent Jobs: The Case for Local Action– An IPPR scoping paper

Citing four different innovative initiatives in the U.S. that have stimulated green jobs:  Apollo Alliance, WE2, Blue Green Alliance, and Green For All, this paper finds four key principles:   1.Keep it local 2.Join forces 3.Not just jobs 4.Build a training-to-work pipeline  Excerpted from the Executive Summary:  "These programmes demon ...
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Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the Unit...

From the Conclusion:  "Probably the single most fundamental policy challenge for the next generation is to build a clean-energy economy and defeat the threat of global cli-mate change. The overarching strategies for achiev-ing this aim are clear: to make massive investments every year in energy efficiency and renewable energy, and to establish li ...
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Sustainable State Energy Efficiency Policy and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

From the Website:  "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) makes billions of dollars in new funding available to state energy programs- mostly to support energy efficiency and renewable energy. There are three main sources of money that states can access to help increase energy efficiency. The first is energy efficiency and ...
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The Green Economy: The Race is On

This report makes the case that, although the Copenhagen summit in December of 2009 did not produce an international agreement, it was clearly not a failure.  No fewer than  154 new global policy announcements have been made, just since October of 2009, as the conference was fast approaching.  According to the report, this is the highest number ...
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What We've Learned From the Stimulus

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Where Has All the Data Gone?: The Crisis of Missing Energy Efficiency Data

From the Abstract:  "Energy efficiency represents one of the most effective resources for addressing the challenges of climate change, economic productivity, and national security. All levels of government, and many businesses, rely upon accurate energy efficiency analyses in order to shape policy and outline business growth plans. Signif ...
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