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...body recently reviewed and endorsed a proposal to change the set points for the heating and cooling of FAS buildings to match those recommended by the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers. The two-degree change—to 68 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter months—could potentially save more than $600,000 a year...
...could soon become the national standard. Greens expect the Obama Administration to push the country in that direction. (As a Senator, Obama called for fuel economy to rise to 40 m.p.g.) Although automakers say the cost of building more efficient cars will be passed on to consumers, California's Air Resources Board has found that, as gas bills fall with cleaner cars, the average low-income household could save about $300 a year under the state's regulations. "Allowing California and other states to aggressively reduce their own harmful vehicle tailpipe emissions would be a historic win for clean air...
...have also expressed concern over relying on the aging atomic arsenal. (Skeptics note that U.S. policy tends to embrace the notion that all nuclear weapons possessed by adversaries will work, while those possessed by the U.S. won't.) "The path of inaction is a path leading toward nuclear disarmament," Air Force General Kevin Chilton, head of the U.S. Strategic Command, warned last month. "The time...
Leave Your Heart. If you're staying Stateside, try San Francisco's Taj Hotel's "Love Is in the Air" weekend, which includes champagne and strawberries, breakfast in bed and prix fixe dinner at the Union Square hotel's award-winning restaurant. $275 per night. Available through Feb. 28. 340 Stockton Street, San Francisco, 415-781-5555 (See 10 things to do in San Francisco...
This evening, three British broadcasters - ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 - will air the DEC appeal. The satellite broadcaster Sky News today confirmed that it will not do so. John Ryley, head of Sky News, said, "We have concluded that broadcasting an appeal for Gaza at this time is incompatible with our role in providing balanced and objective reporting of this continuing situation to our audiences in the U.K. and around the world...