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Our planet is really feeling the heat of Global Warming. Humans are consuming resources like never before. A new coal power plants built in China EVERY WEEK!This all suggests that the consumption of raw materials will continue to rise. And did not appear to be sustainable. We lose fast natural resources, and if nothing is done to stop this drain, we will hit hard. We have seen the effects of Global Warming, such as the El Nino effect. This tornado storm and continued to increase in intensity and frequency of every year.
Can improve the energy-wasting buildings prevent global instability? Former president Bill Clinton thinks so. In the biggest project his foundation has since secured the supply of cheap generic AIDS drugs to third world countries, Clinton has brokered a $ 5 billion effort to finance the retrofit old buildings in 16 cities around the world.
The project, which Clinton announced at a climate conference in Manhattan yesterday, making financing and labor pool to replace the lamp energy monopoly, as well as install better building insulation and more efficient HVAC system. ABN Amro, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and UBS will offer loans, which landlords will reply with the savings gained on their electricity bill. Johnson Controls, Honeywell, Siemens and Trane will manage and audit the work while the three trade associations, including the U.S. Green Building Council, will train minority contractors and "long-term unemployed" laborers in construction engineering. "This will create a system to facilitate building owners to make improvements," said Clinton.
Sounds a bit like the former vice president Al Gore's environmental teacher, Clinton added that cities emit three-quarters of the world's greenhouse gases and that buildings account for between 50 and 80 percent of this toll. The first program wave of cities-Bangkok, Berlin, Chicago, Houston, Johannesburg, Karachi, London, Melbourne, Mexico City, Mumbai, New York, Rome, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Tokyo and Toronto, will begin with the strengthening of public-owned buildings. Supporters are keeping the program open to private landlords and landowners, from Clinton's office in Harlem, Cogswell Realty, has been signed. Clinton Foundation also will team with the C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group, a coalition of mayors and business, to promote the program and spread to other cities.
Ever optimistic, Clinton promised the program will reduce the bill and create good jobs everywhere it goes-including here at home in the U.S. "Much of the material needed to be made in this country," he said, "and with all respect to the mayor of Mumbai, you can not outsource the greening roofs.
Reference:
[1] John Simon,http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/the-trend-toward-green-architecture-2015207.html
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