Commercial buildings the focus of new climate initiative
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Announced Wednesday that the city is launching the LA Commercial Building Performance Partnership .
The project seeks to reach 20 to 30 million more square feet of LA’s commercial structures, that make up a staggering 57% of the LA’s energy consumption.
This “first-of-its-kind program in the country” was created with the goals of conserving both energy and money while spurring job growth. Its designers also hope a public project like this will entice private donations.
The project is funded in part by the Federal Recovery Act , and responds to a nation-wide call for governments to help building owners make their property more efficient. The project is also linked with Energy Upgrade California, a state-wide initiative to update existing buildings.
Part of the Partnership plans to give owners and tenants access to free energy assessments as well as good financing on the cost of the building upgrades.
So what are these “upgrades,” exactly? Renovations can range from something as small as lighting and refrigerator improvements to larger improvements like technology that controls and monitors water and energy use.
Source: SmartPlanet.com (blog)
Green Bay Packers 27-17 Chicago Bears - as it happened
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Preamble William 'The Refrigerator' Perry pulling in a touchdown pass ; Charles Martin crossing Jim McMahon off his hit-list ; Brett Favre hurdling a defender on his way to a 36-yard touchdown run on a Halloween-themed Monday night special. The Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers' rivalry has provided us with some of the most remarkable moments in modern NFL history. And some of the most remarkable in ancient NFL history too.
These two, after all, have been going at it since 1921. As I'm sure all readers remember vividly, they were first ever ejections from a game when Chicago's Frank Hanny and Green Bay's Walter Voss threw down in November 1924 . They have met 182 times, and the all-time series record shows 92 wins for the Bears, 84 for the Packers and six tied games.
More recently it has been the Packers who have dominated, winning four of the last five, including last season's NFC Championship game. The Packers would, of course, go on to beat Pittsburgh in Super Bowl XLV, but it is easy to forget that prior to that it had actually been the Bears who won the NFC North. Were it not for a hard-earned 10-3 win in Chicago in their final regular season game, Green Bay wouldn't have made it into the postseason at all.
Source: The Guardian