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Jim Gunshinan's Blog – August 2012 Archive (3)
Dispatches from Summer Study: Watch Japan and Expect a Great Deal
What’s happening in Japan? Quite a lot according to the 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Tuesday night plenary speaker, Andrew DeWit, Professor in the School of Policy Studies at Rikkyo University. Professor DeWit described nothing less than a battle taking place upon the ruins of the Fukushima power plants, between sustainability and crushing debt; same-old same-old, and the new green economy.
DeWit described the “Hashimoto Phenomenon”. Hashimoto is an Osaka-based…
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Dispatches from Summer Study: A Night in the Life of the Summer Study
The Monday night plenary speaker at the 2012 American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) Summer Study of Energy Efficiency in Buildings, held every two years in beautiful Asilomar, California, was Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Wellinghoff described his coming to FERC in 2006 as a border crossing from the world of energy efficiency—according to Steve Nadel, before joining FERC, Chairman Wellinghoff attended 12 Summer Studies—to the…
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Dispatches from Summer Study: Something of a Study in Contrasts
Another American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings has come and gone from the beautiful Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California. But the reverberations of the talks, discussions, and connections made will reverberate until the…
Added by Jim Gunshinan on August 20, 2012 at 4:00pm — 3 Comments
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