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LOCATION FOCUS: California Dreamin’ – A Rebound Fueled By New Energy

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After swallowing that gloomy news, Californians trudged to the polls in November and approved a referendum increasing their state income taxes by a whopping $6 billion a year. Thus far, California hasn’t dived head-first into an embrace of fracking. All of that may be about to change, seismically, for the better. Last year, CA Gov.

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M&V, MBCx, WTF: Building Performance Monitoring as a Means to Achieve Decarbonization Goals

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In the built environment, quality assurance and control processes like measurement and verification (M&V) and monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) require real-time, accurate data and provide insights that are foundational to achieving zero carbon targets. However, because of how the M&V credit has evolved from LEED version 2.0

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AEE WEST 2023: Building Performance Monitoring

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In the built environment, quality assurance and control processes like measurement and verification (M&V) and monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) require real-time, accurate data and provide insights that are foundational to achieving zero carbon targets. However, because of how the M&V credit has evolved from LEED version 2.0

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Tapping LA’s Rooftop Solar Potential Could Benefit City’s Most Disadvantaged Communities

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Prior studies commissioned by the LABC Institute have concluded that Los Angeles has 10,000 acres of rooftop solar potential, enough to support a FIT far larger than the 600 megawatt program recommended in the study released from the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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Having witnessed income and social class inequities entrenched by corruption on their European mission, and a system in which government officials and business entrepreneurs rarely collaborate to solve civic and social problems, the Ivorys recognized the seeds of similar dynamics in their own backyard. See past Builder of the Year winners.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Appalachian Regional Commission and Delta Regional Authority Grants: Federal-state partnerships that work with the people of 37 Appalachian counties in Alabama and the Mississippi Delta region’s twenty Alabama counties to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life. The rates range from $.25

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Marketing and sales interns: Can they be the solution?

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The 2013 movie, The Internship, didn’t win rave reviews — but touched close to home as I’ve been invited to the Google campus and offices in California and New York a few times. If the work/income can’t grow fast enough to meet the competitive landscape, the young person will simply move on to something better.

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