Energy Efficiency

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Waste Not: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Waste Not: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Waste is threathening to choke our planet. But it could help save megawatts of energy, tons of CO2, and valuable resources, if used properly.

 

Waste Not, Want Not: How Malmö Recycles Waste

Waste Not, Want Not: How Malmö Recycles Waste

Most people see the stuff they throw away as ‘waste’—smelly, ugly, toxic junk they want removed. The citizens of the Swedish city of Malmö, however, don’t see waste, they see resources.

 

House Cleaning: How Allianz Cuts Waste

House Cleaning: How Allianz Cuts Waste

Allianz has successfully encouraged employees in the City of London to recycle and reduce waste, using some imaginative tactics. Education is the key, says Ian Ranger, who has guided Allianz to gold in the ‘Clean City Awards’ for four years running.

 

Rag Pickers: Saving India from Waste

Rag Pickers: Saving India from Waste

Without the millions of rag pickers that search for recyclable garbage, India’s cities would drown in waste. But the general public still shuns them as outcasts, criticizes film maker Parasher Baruah.

 

Home Green Home: The Quickest Carbon Cut

Home Green Home: The Quickest Carbon Cut

Buildings gobble up almost half the world’s energy and spew out nearly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Making them greener is the quickest, easiest way to avoid a climate catastrophe.

 

Empire State Building Retrofit

Empire State Building Retrofit

The Empire State Building is a 20th century icon. But she’s showing her years, so it’s time for a 21st century facelift. The world’s best-loved skyscraper is going green, helped by the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Caroline Fluhrer.

 

Power Plant Home: Carbon Negative in London

Power Plant Home: Carbon Negative in London

Donnachadh McCarthy refurbished his nineteenth century London home so efficiently that he now sells electricity back to the British national grid. How did he do it?

 

How Many Laws Does it Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?

How Many Laws Does it Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?

The European Union is banishing conventional lightbulbs. The move will save tons of CO2 and lots of money. Critics complain that the alternatives are costly, not bright enough, and contain harmful substances, but the end is nigh for lightbulb jokes.

 

Green Building Matters For History

Green Building Matters For History

Emily Wadhams of The National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States explains how the preservation of historic sights and the idea of sustainable building go hand in hand.

 

India's Greenest Building

India's Greenest Building

It will never rival the beauty or fame of the Taj Mahal, but the CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre in Hyderabad may be more important to India’s future, kick-starting a green building revolution. Allianz Knowledge took the tour.

 

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