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IBM Selected to Maximize Energy Efficiency for US Airforce

IBM's smarter buildings software will be used across 170 US Airforce locations worldwide.

The first national green building code, approved last year, requires new homes and buildings to be 30% more efficient than in 2006.

And that's without any federal tax credits. Geothermal is expected to triple.

Since the industrial revolution, there have been five long waves of innovation, resource efficiency is the next one.

It's the first commercial building in NYC to compost all its food waste.

Rather than being shipped to China, plastic PET bottles will be recycled into new bottles.

Wind generated electricity costs almost a third less than that from a new coal plant, and prices keep coming down.

These leaders are taking notable action to reduce their carbon footprints as well as suppliers.

That wind farm will be joined by a bunch of other big ones coming online this year in the midwest and western states.

The funds are for research and demonstration projects of wind technologies that can dramatically cut the cost ... if Congress appropriates the money.