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Strategies for Meeting Your Decarbonization Goals

It’s one thing to set aspirational decarbonization goals, but it’s a whole other challenge to create a data-backed strategy to achieve them. In this webinar, Mike, Danny, and Mitchell break down how to assess the potential impact of projects, create an ROI-driven project hierarchy, and explore emerging technologies for decarbonization.

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The Difference Between Product & Corporate Carbon

As the world continues to grapple with the challenges of climate change, it has become increasingly important for companies to measure and reduce their carbon footprints. Two terms that are often used in this context are product carbon and corporate carbon. While they may sound similar, they refer to different things and require different approaches to address them. 

 

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Resiliency Over Efficiency

Every Friday morning, we have an all-team meeting that includes 15 mins of learning. "Learning" is a broad term that applies to personal topics of interest, local nonprofits telling us about their work, new sustainability start-ups, and Ted Talks we thought people might enjoy.

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4 Reasons Why You Need an Energy Management System

Every organization, regardless of industry or size, uses energy in one form or another. For decades, utility invoices were another bill to be paid and forgotten about, but as markets shift and evolve, energy consumption is becoming a vital metric to understand and track. We outline 4 reasons your organization should consider adopting an Energy Management System (EMS). Before we discuss that, though, what is an EMS?

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Better Indoor Environmental Quality by Doing Easy Things (Not Buying New Things)

As a result of COVID increasing our attention towards global health, we've heard a lot about improving Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), despite not having new standards and little new technology for IEQ. At a recent ASHRAE conference, I listened to a keynote presentation in which the presenter said, “If we just maintained our buildings as they should be maintained, we'd see a dramatic improvement in IEQ.”

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Do Code-Mandated Lighting Controls Help Us?

While I'm not an expert in lighting controls, I interact with them frequently as a part of our commissioning work. Throughout my many years of designing and troubleshooting buildings' functionality, I have repeatedly inquired about the commissioning of lighting controls. Way back, the “only” lighting system was daylighting; candles didn't work all that well for many activities. The only “controls” were drapes and shades.

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The Surprising History of Light

Did you ever get yelled at by your parents to "Turn the lights OFF!" when you were a kid? I did. As an energy engineer as an adult, I wish I could have shown my kid-self the calculations on how much it really costs to leave the lights on.

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Fall: The Best Time to Think About Energy

Autumn is here. As the weather cools off and the days get shorter, the first thing I think of is our culture’s obsession with pumpkin spice. These days it seems like everything is pumpkin spice flavored – whiskey, cheerios, and even English muffins (I’m not joking). If there is one thing I wish more people thought of in the fall, it’s energy. Who are we kidding - if you read enough of these blogs, you’ll find all I think about is energy.

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What is Happening in the Energy Markets?

If 2020 was the year of hearing people talk about COVID19 constantly, 2021 is the year people are talking about inflation and the supply chain. It is hard to go through a day without hearing someone talk about supply chain issues or inflation. Unfortunately, the natural gas and electricity markets are suffering from price inflation as well.

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