The Executive Order commits Federal agencies to lead by example toward a clean energy economy, and sets targets to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, increase energy efficiency, reduce fleet petroleum consumption, conserve water, reduce waste, support sustainable communities, and leverage Federal purchasing power to promote environmentally-responsible products and technologies.
Logic argues that increased data center efficiency would reduce the need for new data centers.
It also needs to introduce measures to help improve energy efficiency to reduce demand.
Separating generation from transmission and opening the door to new entrants would raise efficiency and reduce costs.
These efficiency measures reduce ad effects, misleading marketing managers to choose further spiraling reductions in advertising costs and ad effects.
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Leif Soerensen, the company's CEO, says that what gaming can do for a business is add efficiency and reduce complexity.
Second, we must look at ways to further improve the efficiency and reduce the power load of storage and other enterprise equipment.
Well thought out energy policy legislation should be able increase efficiency and reduce emissions without further burdening our economy, and I commend Sen.
DG's Mr Thiemann has been instrumental in centralising the mutual banks' asset-management, payments and securities businesses, which should boost efficiency and reduce problems at outlying banks.
The campaign group Transport and Environment says this is an old argument from an industry which has been forced by previous standards to improve efficiency and reduce fuel bills.
El Hierro biosphere reserves aims to increase energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions further with a Sustainable Mobility Plan (PDMS), since 50% of the energy consumed on the island is used for transportation.
Of the six sectors needing transformation to increase efficiency and reduce oil use -- cars, trucks, planes, fuels, finance and military -- three or four are near or past their tipping point and starting to get easier.
It directs my administration, under the leadership of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, to develop a standard to improve fuel efficiency and reduce harmful emissions for trucks, starting with the model year 2014.
Improving facilities, teaching quality and research takes money, and while schools theoretically could "aggressively try to increase their efficiency, reduce costs and get better by substitution rather than by growing expenditures, they don't do this, " Ehrenberg says.
One of the early papers to come out of the project is a look at how the city of Busan, in South Korea, is using cloud-based city services to improve efficiency, reduce emissions and serve its residents better.
Companies looking to streamline supply chains should look no further than their storage shelves, where innovations in inventory management can increase efficiency, and reduce long-term costs.
Hitting the energy-efficiency targets would reduce demand for those permits, in which case their price might fall too low to encourage further investment into low-carbon technologies.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, said oil companies ought to play a part in rebuilding old infrastructure, which would increase efficiency and possibly reduce costs.
Any increase in capacity and efficiency tends to reduce prices.
As part of its Digital Service Efficiency effort to reduce power consumption in its data centers, eBay slightly changed some of its software code so that the code would require less memory.
Existing techniques and technologies in energy efficiency retrofitting can reduce energy use by up to 40 percent per home and lower total associated greenhouse gas emissions by up to 160 million metric tons annually.
The government is carrying out a fares and ticketing review, which is due to conclude in May, as part of a drive to find billions of pounds in efficiency savings and reduce taxpayer-funded subsidies to the railways.
Many types of muscular dystrophy can also reduce the efficiency of the heart muscle.
Ultimately, the service hopes to improve efficiency and not only reduce cost, but accurately track it - as well as hopefully save lives.
When institutional operations are not transparent, it can increase transaction costs, reduce the efficiency of public services, distort the decision-making process and undermine social values.
What it is, is that because we don't use the latest technologies, a lot of times the holding patterns for planes, how many planes can land safely at the same time, all those things are -- reduce the efficiency of -- the overall system is reduced because we're not using the best technologies available.
The restructuring process, which began in 2009, is expected to reduce manufacturing costs, increase efficiency, facilitate far more flexibility in labor requirements, and will also help reduce product development time by 30% that will enable the company to launch new models faster.
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Solar has greater potential, given the prospects for innovations that improve the efficiency of solar panels and reduce the cost of producing them.
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It is also about to introduce a new regulation on energy efficiency, which will further reduce emissions and which was not factored into the current cap.
Whether to allow this to happen, or to prop hospitals up and thus reduce the possible efficiency gains, will be a hard test for the next government.
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