(Business Wire) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Sundays 8/7c on ABC ) has come to the Washington D.C. metro area to demolish and rebuild two buildings – a community center and a residential home. Serious Materials, the leading energy-saving building materials company in the U.S., has donated its super-insulating SeriousWindows for use in both projects. With input and guidance from the Department of Energy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a DOE Laboratory, each project is designed with advanced energy-efficient materials and serve as examples for cost-effective near-zero energy building design that can be accomplished today...8/26 |
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If your heating and cooling bills are going through the roof, you may be glad to know that's the place to look for help. By installing a new Investment Grade metal roof, you can reduce your tax burden, cut energy costs, help the environment and protect your home...A study conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory found that a reflective metal roof can save homeowners up to 40 percent in summer cooling costs. Highly reflective metal roofing panels are created with special pigment paints that reflect the sun's energy in the infrared spectrum, thus reducing the heat load transferred to the interior of the structure...8/27
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) On a day when there was negative news on Recovery Act work at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, DOE's Oak Ridge manager Gerald Boyd said he's pleased with the performance in his camp. "It's going very well," Boyd said during a break at DOE's Integrated Safety Management Summit in Knoxville...8/26
(DOE Press Release) Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the selection of 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...8/26
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National
(USA Today) The nation is headed for strong heat waves in coming decades that will hit cities and farmers and threaten wildlife with extinction, a new global warming report warns...8/26
State & Regional
(BusinessTN) BusinessTN's popular annual business ranking, the TN250, is a one-of-a-kind, one-stop source for surveying the state's public and private company landscape...8/27
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Some of East Tennessee's most prominent business leaders say the state's higher education system is falling short on providing a skilled work force that can compete in a global economy...8/26
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Scientists can track progress of H1N1 flu in detail