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West Coast Green, San Francisco Fort Mason Center, October 1-3, 2009 West Coast Green – the premier conference on green innovation -will attract thousands of the brightest minds in green building, business, and technology, including 300+ exhibitors and over 125 speakers.  You are invited to join this active community to learn, collaborate and turn brilliant ideas into action! [...]

Government as a green leader. GSA is the organization ownes and/or operates all Federal buildings.   Posters Promote Use of Revolving Doors in GSA-Controlled Buildings Through a series of posters, GSA is encouraging employees, tenants, and visitors to use revolving doors. The use of revolving doors is paramount to GSA’s efforts to help provide safe, [...]

Sen. Johnson of South Dakota, a swing vote on the climate & energy bills going through the U.S. Senate has indicated his support. This bill and the REEP provisions remain close. www.grist.org/article/2009-08-20-south-dakota-sen-johnson-favors-climate-bill

Efficiency First Supporting Sponsor in the News PEG President & CEO Matthew Cooper promotes the benefits of cost-effective energy retrofits Matthew Cooper, President & CEO of the Maryland-based environmental engineering and energy consulting firm PEG (www.pegenv.com), was featured in a recent television news segment profiling a LEED Platinum home in Arlington, Virginia. While the home [...]

“Cash for Refrigerators” Incentive in the Works New program will funnel stimulus dollars to buyers of ENERGY STAR applliances Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently announced a plan to make $300 million in federal stimulus funding to a “cash for refrigerators” incentive modeled after the “cash for clunkers” program that recently ended. Full details are not [...]

Green For All Guide to ARRA Funding Free publication helps clean energy businesses and nonprofits tap into federal stimulus dollars Green For All (www.greenforall.org), a national nonprofit that has taken a leadership role in clean energy workforce development, has published a useful guide designed to help small businesses and nonprofits leverage funding opportunities created by [...]

**Discounted subscription to Home Energy Magazine. Efficiency First members will receive a 12% discount on Home Energy Magazine, advancing home performance and residential energy efficiency since 1984. You can receive your copy via print or Online. Your discount will be available if you order only by September 30. Subscribe Online at http://homeenergy.org/member_register.php  to get your [...]

Tracking Stimulus Funding for Green Workforce Development Federal legislation funnels $500 million to education and training initiatives for American workers. You may have heard that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 signed into law last February earmarked funding for green-collar job development, but many in our industry are not fully aware of the [...]