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According to Alan Meier, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a leading expert on energy efficiency, “We have entered this new era where essentially everything is on all the time.” ‘The biggest offender is the flat-screen television. As liquid crystal displays and plasma technologies replace the old cathode ray [...]

In 1982, US total carbon emissions fell 5.3 percent. After nearly 30 years in 2008, the country saw its biggest CO2 emissions reduction at 2.8 percent. The reasons were mostly tied to the financial meltdown: economic slump, reduction in energy use, and high fuel prices. Another interesting revelation is that while GDP went up 1.1 percent in 2008, the [...]