If Japan had regained its internal energy--say, through remarkable technologies in resource recovery and efficiency, beyond the celebrated hybrid auto engines--the world's number two economy could be zigging while so many others are zagging.
The recommendations and actions in this Report have been carefully designed to help overcome these barriers and to leverage Recovery Act funding to help ensure that the energy efficiency market will thrive long after the Recovery Act money is fully spent.
If state and local officials had a fixed amount of dollars to spend, along with maximum flexibility in how to spend these dollars so long as they were tied to the purpose of disaster recovery or indigent medical assistance, this would greatly improve the effectiveness and efficiency of both Medicaid and national disaster recovery efforts.
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And I'm proposing that we expand select Recovery Act initiatives to promote energy efficiency and clean energy jobs which have been proven to be particularly popular and effective.
By combining automated recovery, virtualization for instant availability, deduplication for efficiency, and cloud data centers for reliability, Quorum could provide small to mid-sized companies disaster recovery in minutes, which was previously only available to the largest enterprises and governments.
Even though both the companies missed market expectations in their latest quarterly results, Home Depot seems to have handled the difficult housing market and slow demand recovery better with successful cost-cutting and efficiency initiatives, store remodels, improved service and better pricing strategies.
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Everywhere I go, I see it with my own eyes -- like energy-efficiency and high-speed rail, relatively small amounts of recovery dollars will leverage very, very large investments in those areas.
Clean renewables and energy efficiency technologies are booming in other countries, and could be the cornerstone of a green economic recovery, quickly secure our power and be a springboard for greater emission reductions in future.
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