The company has joined the Alliance to Save Energy and the Digital Energy Solutions Campaign (DESC), a group of tech companies working on environmental issues.
But it was criticised for failing to show how the plans would save the need for energy in the first place.
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With Apple iEnergy, the more energy you save, the more we charge.
If this is a successful effort, this would well turn into a win-win situation: the energy companies save money, while at the same time actively working to protect deep sea habitats.
Imagine teaching the thermostat in your house to lower the temperature when you leave to save energy, and warm the house upon your arrival.
You could, with a relatively small investment, help put people back to work and, by the way, we could save on our energy bills and reduce the amount of greenhouse gases we're sending into the atmosphere.
You can save 40 percent on the energy of a wash by reducing that wash temperature.
President Ricardo Martinelli asked Panamanians "to save energy because the lack of rain is really causing havoc with our electricity system".
"He told me to save my energy for the whole game, and that's what I'm trying to do this year, " Teheran said.
Now, Insert Coin semifinalist Radiator Labs is working to bring a solution to market that'll make your living space a lot more tolerable, and as an added bonus, it'll save energy at the same time.
Whereas Zhang's family used to spend hours seeking, chopping and carrying firewood, the switch to alternative energy has enabled them to save the equivalent of 100 working days, he estimated.
This allows for clever tricks such as concentrating virtual machines on as few computers as possible and switching off the rest to save energy.
In 2001, the Alliance to Save Energy picked awarded Pataki its most prestigious annual prize for leadership in energy efficiency and combined heat and power.
The Alliance To Save Energy touts energy-efficient remodels as a way to help lower your home energy bills, provide a more comfortable living space and reduce air pollution.
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It may make economic sense to pay more for a new car, furnace or solar panel that will save money and energy in the long run, but it is hard--for both individuals and companies--to sacrifice current profit for future gain.
"People don't oppose the tax credit, but they oppose the offsets that are going to pay for it, such as rolling back tax incentives the oil and gas industry got in 2005, " says Lowell Ungar, director of policy for the Alliance to Save Energy.
Levi's has spent the past 18 months redesigning processes to save 45 million gallons of water, along with the energy that would have heated that water.
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Save energy by not having the business open.
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PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, for example, has argued since the most recent stock collapse that only dramatic new breakthroughs in energy and food production technologies will save the economy from an extended period of Malthusian zero-sum behavior.
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And over the next three decades, the clean energy from this plant will save 575, 000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions, which is the equivalent of removing more than 4, 500 cars from the road each year for the life of the project.
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And if we do the same thing with clean energy, we can save consumers money and we can make sure the economy is more secure.
The American Chemistry Council is telling chemical companies to find ways to save energy, to save money now and carbon when the day comes that US companies may have to.
Among them: a space heater for residents of the Himalayas, a water heater for urban Indians, and Airvest, a garment he says could save the lives of painters working in industrial spray booths and trim energy bills at the same time.
His mission is to harness the turbo energy he possesses to morph into different cyborg forms and save the world from monsters bearing names like Elementor and Dredd.
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Three months ago, everyone wanted to know if renewable energy could save America from the escalating costs of fossil fuels.
Every day, the children can learn how much electricity they have fed into the grid and how to save more energy.
So how are we to save our decision-making energy for the big stuff, like choosing a job or planning for the future?
In every issue, ReadyMade magazine offers readers a plethora of ways to save energy and do right by the planet, through reusing and transforming objects from everyday life.
We are looking at weatherization programs where we can hire young people who don't have jobs to go in and start insulating buildings that will save people's energy bills over the long term.
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