Check out Jim Gunshinan’s blog entries from the National Weatherization Training Conference. They are talking about training fro green jobs, among other things. Jim is the Managing Editor of Home Energy magazine.
www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2009/07/24/weatherization-gets-down-to-business
EETD scientist Evan Mills has finished a new report outlining the benefits of commissioning new and retrofit commercial buildings—potential for saving a median of 13% of the energy use of new buildings and 16% in building retrofits, based on a study of 643 buildings representing 99 million square feet. Commissioning is the process of testing and fine-tuning building systems in a new or retrofit building before it is occupied to make sure that they are working up to specification. Good commissioning saves energy and reduces energy bills. The word was originally used in connection with applying this process to naval ships when they were finished, but before they went into service.
Download the report here:
Here’s a nice story about a young inventor who was inspired by EETD’s Ashok Gadgil to invent technology to help developing nations.
http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2009/07/20/young-inventor/
I missed this when it happened a few months ago, but the Indoor Air Quality Scientific Findings Resources Bank added substantial new material in the section on indoor dampness, biological contaminants and healt:
http://eetd.lbl.gov/ied/sfrb/dampness-summary.html
The website is a knowledge base of peer-reviewed scientific material on indoor air quality, much of it written to understood broadly by those without special training in the field.