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Does Daylight Saving Time even save energy? Spring forward on energy efficiency anyways!

Mar 08, 2020

Daylight Saving Time has been used in the U.S. since World War I in an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power. But how much energy does Daylight Saving Time actually save?

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Winter Energy Saving Tips

Feb 02, 2020

Take a look at these energy-saving best practices.

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Building Clean Teams up With HPN Select to Help Affordable Housing Owners Find Local Building Products

Oct 30, 2019

Building Clean and HPN Select, a Housing Partnership Network social enterprise, announced a partnership to help affordable housing owners find locally manufactured building products. With Building Clean’s assistance, HPN Select will add the manufacturing location—city and state—to thousands of building products in the Select EcoGuide, a database highlighting the health and sustainability of materials used by nonprofit multifamily housing developers.

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Failing Water Infrastructure Impacts Health

Aug 28, 2019

The American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2017 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure awarded the infrastructure that delivers the water Americans drink a grade of “D.”

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Construction: It’s a Woman’s World

Aug 21, 2019

The number of women working in construction has consistently hovered around 10 percent since 1996. However of women working in construction only 21 percent are actively working on sites as opposed to in administrative or office roles.

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What’s In Your Water?

Aug 07, 2019

PFAS are a family of man-made chemicals that arrived on the scene in the 1950s and have been manufactured and used in a wide variety of consumer products ever since. An estimated 99 percentof Americans have traces of PFAS in their blood.

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Latest Project from A Tiny Home for Good Applauded by Building Clean

Jul 26, 2019

A Tiny Home for Good today held a ribbon cutting ceremony in Syracuse after the completion of its latest project, four homes at 216 Slocum Avenue in Southeast Syracuse.

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Building Clean Presents at 2019 Congressional Clean Energy Expo

Jul 23, 2019

Last week Building Clean was at the 22nd Annual Congressional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Expo and Policy Forum along with 40 other businesses, trade associations, government agencies, and nonprofits. We talked energy efficiency, jobs, and health.

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Chill. It’s National Air Conditioner Day!

Jul 17, 2019

There is no better time to celebrate National Air Conditioner Day than in the dead of an intense heat wave. On this day in 1902, Willis Carrier designed an “Apparatus for Treating Air” to help control humidity levels at The Buffalo Forge Company, where he worked. His innovation would become the building block for the modern air conditioner.

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Efficiency Retrofits Drive Clean Energy Jobs

Jul 09, 2019

Demand for energy efficient technology and building retrofits has driven job growth across many U.S. industries. Energy efficiency job growth rose 3.4 percent in 2018, according to the 2019 U.S. Energy and Employment Report. This critical sector of the economy includes jobs in construction, manufacturing, wholesale trading, engineering, and more.

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Does Daylight Saving Time even save energy? Spring forward on energy efficiency anyways!

Winter Energy Saving Tips

Building Clean Teams up With HPN Select to Help Affordable Housing Owners Find Local Building Products

Failing Water Infrastructure Impacts Health

Construction: It’s a Woman’s World

What’s In Your Water?

Latest Project from A Tiny Home for Good Applauded by Building Clean

Building Clean Presents at 2019 Congressional Clean Energy Expo

Chill. It’s National Air Conditioner Day!

Efficiency Retrofits Drive Clean Energy Jobs