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Welcome to the Sunset Cabana, the magic is just about to be revealed.. During sunset, live music is performed and heard throughout the public areas, and great lighting features further strengthened the ambience that the resorts literally glows at night. In contrast, the Bvlgari's best moment is only during the twilight and afterwards it's total darkness, that it looks haunted and liveless..
ALILA VILLAS ULUWATU
a Green Globe Certified Resort
Pecatu, Bali
General Manager: Sean Brennan
Executive Chef: Stefan Zijta
Architect: WOHA
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High peak demand for energy in FYR Macedonia can result in power outages around the country. Here a young child does homework by lamplight in a home outside of Skopje. Photo: Tomislav Georgiev / World Bank
An energy efficient bulb in a shop in Gaziantep, Turkey. Energy efficiency is a key priority for Turkey and the World Bank. The World Bank has provided more than $1 billion to Turkey for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Photo: Yusuf Türker/ World Bank
Power lines stretch across rural Turkey. Turkey has a vast energy transmission system throughout the country. The World Bank has committed more than $1 billion for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Turkey. Photo: Yusuf Türker/ World Bank
Creative Red Lines for Climate Justice at the end of COP21
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Thursday, October 9, 2014 - Secretary of State John Kerry Speaks after he and Governor Patrick toured MassCEC’s Wind Technology Testing Center with UK Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond to promote the Administration’s commitment to meeting the challenges of climate change through mitigation and preparedness initiatives in Massachusetts. (Photo: Eric Haynes / Governor’s Office)
A helicopter took aerial photographs of participants holding up scarves to create a red line around the Statue of Liberty
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The World Bank's Global Environmental Facility has provided more than $3 million in financing for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in FYR Macedonia. Here a solar heater sits atop a building. More and more people are harnessing the sun's potential to provide power in the country. Photo: Tomislav Georgiev / World Bank
Demanding good jobs, healthier communities, and frontline justice with 100% clean, renewable energy, hundreds of New Yorkers converged on the State Capitol on Wednesday to call on Governor Cuomo and state lawmakers to support the NYS Climate & Community Protection Act (A.10342) – the nation’s strongest climate protection bill. NY Renews, a historic group of labor, environmental, and grassroots organizations, is coming together for the first time to trailblaze a new front in the fight against climate change – pushing the climate protection debate from an environmental discussion to an economic and social justice one.
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This wall of Andersen 400 Series windows is made up of a center picture window an Arch top window and two Tilt-Wash Double-hung Windows with a modified colonial grille pattern. All built with rich natural wood interiors with low-maintenance exteriors.The High-Performance™ SmartSun® glass helps protect your furniture, carpets and drapes by blocking out 95 percent of the damaging ultraviolet rays that can cause fading and it can be instrumental in reducing energy consumption.
Andersen Advantage
We publish standard energy-efficiency performance ratings on almost all our products. Homes with Andersen windows and doors can dramatically reduce their heating and cooling costs.
To find out more about the Federal Energy tax credit and qualifying Andersen products, visit www.andersenwindows.com/taxcredit
Photo Garth Crump
Chasing net-zero Part 1: Net-zero 101
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Net-zero homes must do three things well: 1) energy conservation; 2) harvest free passive solar energy; and 3) produce clean renewable (solar) energy. And as we have seen net-zero homes can be very attractive like this home in Beverly Heights in Edmonton. Photo Darren Greenwood Learn more in
Chasing net-zero Part 1: Net-zero 101
www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/78-chasing-net-zero-net...
A new ‘green town’ in the Bogcha mahalla (neighborhood) of the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan is becoming a role model for something far more sustainable. Once a village with dilapidated housing not up to code, now a dozen environmentally-friendly homes line the road.
The houses - built so far in five regions - are low-carbon and energy efficient, with solar water heaters, photovoltaic system for back up electricity, special basement, floor and wall insulation, double-glazed windows, and energy-saving lighting. They were constructed through a project of UNDP and the Ministry of Construction of the Republic of Uzbekistan, with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
Green mortgages, subsidized by GEF, are available for their purchase, making them more affordable for citizens and less risky for banks.
Read more: undpeurasia.exposure.co/the-street-that-green-built
Photos: Mukhiddin Ali / UNDP Uzbekistan
A windmill helps generate power for a home in FYR Macedonia. More and more households in the country are looking toward alternative sources of power to meet their energy needs. Photo: Tomislav Georgiev /World Bank
Sonya Newenhouse designed a Passive House in Wisconsin that uses less energy than a hair dryer to stay warm
one AC variable frequency drive (frequency inverter) drives 5 pumps for water treatment: high energy efficiency, less human operation & less maintenance cost.
These Andersen 400 Series Tilt-Wash Double-hung Windows located in Wheaton, Illinois feature simulated divided light colonial grilles. Built with rich natural wood interiors with low-maintenance exteriors. The High-Performance™ SmartSun® glass helps protect your furniture, carpets and drapes by blocking out 95 percent of the damaging ultraviolet rays that can cause fading and it can be instrumental in reducing energy consumption.
Andersen Advantage
We publish standard energy-efficiency performance ratings on almost all our products. Homes with Andersen windows and doors can dramatically reduce their heating and cooling costs.
To find out more about the Federal Energy tax credit and qualifying Andersen products, visit www.andersenwindows.com/taxcredit
"I want kids to feel empowered and not like there's nothing they can do about this. And I think that's what this is all about, is really empowering the youth, empowering the leaders of tomorrow to make change today," says Stephanie Zawaduk at Queen Elizabeth High School. Students working on a white paper want to see climate change in the curriculum and some even want schools to become models of sustainability. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca See video and blog: www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/alberta-students-school...
Parents wait as children ride a merry-go-round in Skopje, FYR Macedonia. Photo: Tomislav Georgiev / World Bank
A family reads by candle light following a black out in FYR Macedonia. Power outages remain a concern for families throughout the country. Photo: Tomislav Georgiev / World Bank
Activists held up red scarves symbolizing red lines at the Creative Red Lines for Climate Justice at the end of COP21 in Liberty Island
© Erik Mc Gregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963
Demanding good jobs, healthier communities, and frontline justice with 100% clean, renewable energy, hundreds of New Yorkers converged on the State Capitol on Wednesday to call on Governor Cuomo and state lawmakers to support the NYS Climate & Community Protection Act (A.10342) – the nation’s strongest climate protection bill. NY Renews, a historic group of labor, environmental, and grassroots organizations, is coming together for the first time to trailblaze a new front in the fight against climate change – pushing the climate protection debate from an environmental discussion to an economic and social justice one.
© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963
Creative Red Lines for Climate Justice at the end of COP21
© Erik Mc Gregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963
YOU ARE HERE: How radical mapping builds community power - Patagonia SoHo, NY
© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963
Overhead building drawing of the Kinney family Earthship. You can see the tires, cisterns and interior layout.
This sequence shows the progression on the east wing of the Earthship, from tires and earth to the beautiful finished natural look of cob. The finish is determined by a very basic iron oxide solution. Photos David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Green Energy Futures www.greenenergyfutures.ca
Mr. Voin Lazarov (68) will be one of the potential beneficiaries of the World Bank Energy Efficiency Project (under preparation) in Sofia, Bulgaria. 2016. Photo: Ivelina Taushanova / World Bank
The tenements at the junction of Balgay Street and St Ann Street were built as part of a slum clearance exercise in 1937. Then, they lorded it over the adjacent poor neighbourhood of Tipperary ('Tip'). Today, the Lochee bypass cuts a swathe through the district.
In 2015 this douce sandstone building was transformed by the addition of external wall insulation. Now it is no longer Dundee: this could be any inter-war tenement in Scotland. There is a high likelihood the new smooth rendered finish is going to look awful within ten years.
The insulation fitment has been driven by HEEPS (Home Energy Efficiency Programmes for Scotland), an initiative with the stated aim of tackling fuel poverty, which is worth £2.6 million to the local authority in 2015-16.
Is addressing fuel poverty, and improving home energy efficiency, more important than preserving an important visual part of the city's built environment? Well, yes: as long as it works. Otherwise, slapping vulgar external cladding on top of beautiful sandstone masonry might be classed as civic vandalism.
"I really want schools to be more environmentally friendly, with new energy, especially with so many schools in Alberta being rebuilt, so, I want to have solar panels, and have automatic lights so we don't have to use so much energy," said Gabby Cowan of Bonneyville High School after presenting the Climate Leadership in Alberta Schools student written white paper on climate change education. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca See video, blog and photos: www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/150-students-meet-minis...
Justin Liston, a Sheet Metal, Air, Rail & Transportation Workers Local 12 Union (SMART) apprentice, preparing for a high-paying, skilled energy-efficiency job at a training center in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh, PA
Photo credit: Justin Merriman
Find out how much money you could save with energy efficiency meaures like insulation and low energy light bulbs.
At the Energy Efficient Prosperity panel discussion at COP21, IEA Head of Energy Efficiency & Environment Division Philippe Benoit explains how energy efficiency can expand access to energy services as well as limit climate change.
Photo by George Kamiya
Edison Electric Institute President Thomas Kuhn reminded listeners that effective energy efficiency policy is “not all about the federal level – it’s the states where a lot of the action is, especially for the gas and utility industries.”
Here a man works on a turbine at Macedonia's ELEM power plant. ELEM is the country's largest provider of electricity. Officials in Macedonia are working with the World Bank Group to improve energy efficiency in the country and explore alternative and renewable sources of energy, including solar, wind, and hydropower. Photo: Tomislav Georgiev / World Bank
renewables are part of the solution to reduce our emissions. See Turning the Tide on Climate change by Robert Kandel
Food Bank For New York City is the city’s hub for integrated food poverty services, tackling hunger on three fronts: food distribution, income support and nutrition education. All of our work is guided by our research on food poverty in the five boroughs. The Walmart Foundation’s $382,879 grant will help the Food Bank make a number of upgrades to its warehouse facility (including upgrading lighting, heating and air conditioning systems, as well as improving the insulation of refrigeration units) that are expected to save the Food Bank $164,863 dollars a year in energy costs and reduce energy use by nearly one million kilowatt-hours. The Food Bank says the savings could help provide more than 800,000 meals to New Yorkers in need. For more information on Food Bank For New York City www.foodbanknyc.org.