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</span>Some production builders such as Pulte are experimenting with highly energy efficient homes, and some such as David Weekley Homes have routinely build energy efficient homes for years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>So have such Jacksonville custom builders as Dan Hovis and such construction companies as Mary Tappouni’s Breaking Ground.
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</span>Green homes accounted for 17% of residential building in the US last year and are expected to take an increasing share of the market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/02/10/422633/green-homes-construction-market-2011/?mobile=nc"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/02/10/422633/green-homes-construction-market-2011/?mobile=nc</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Building code revisions are moving the transition along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/environment/story/2012-02-02/more-homes-conserve-energy/53098306/1"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/environment/story/2012-02-02/more-homes-conserve-energy/53098306/1</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Energy efficient housing is essential to creating sustainable communities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>A study of the vulnerability of New York to storm surges under the changing climate projects “100 year floods” every 3 to 20 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-climate-today-year-years.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-climate-today-year-years.html</font></a></p>
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</span>Information from a retreat for Canadian government officials and oil industry executives revealed how deeply the Canadian government has become involved in attempting to block or undermine climate action in favor of profits from oil sands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>At the retreat Canada was advised to present the appearance of listening to environmental concerns and to build a spurious impression of taking action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Such a cooptation strategy is consistent with current oil industry ad campaigns (“We Agree”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/lobby%20retreat%20urges%20feds%20deliver%20climate%20change%20solutions/6141130/story.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/lobby%20retreat%20urges%20feds%20deliver%20climate%20change%20solutions/6141130/story.html</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>Leaked documents from the Heartland Institute, funder of deniers, promise curricular materials presenting global warming as scientifically controversial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/15/10415410-leaked-a-plan-to-teach-climate-change-skepticism-in-schools"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/15/10415410-leaked-a-plan-to-teach-climate-change-skepticism-in-schools</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Heartland funders include Microsoft, GM, Bayer, Pfizer, Charles Koch, and the US Chamber of Commerce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/james-blog/2152717/-denier-gate-scandal-uncovers-flaw-pick-mix-green-strategies?WT.rss_f=Home&WT.rss_a=%E2%80%9CDenier-gate%E2%80%9D+scandal+uncovers+the+flaw+in+pick+and+mix+green+strategies"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/james-blog/2152717/-denier-gate-scandal-uncovers-flaw-pick-mix-green-strategies?WT.rss_f=Home&WT.rss_a=%E2%80%9CDenier-gate%E2%80%9D+scandal+uncovers+the+flaw+in+pick+and+mix+green+strategies</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Several academics and publicists are on the Heartland payroll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/15/climate-sceptics-pai-heartland-institute"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/15/climate-sceptics-pai-heartland-institute</font></a></p>
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</span>Research at MIT intends to produce a low cost utility-scale battery which would even out the power intermittency of some renewable sources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The high temperature liquid battery is composed of common, cheap materials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/02/mit-research-liquid-batteries-for-utilities-could-make-renewables-competitive??cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-February15-2012"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/02/mit-research-liquid-batteries-for-utilities-could-make-renewables-competitive??cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-February15-2012</font></a></p>
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</span>The US, working through the UN, is leading a group of 6 nations in a pilot program to reduce methane and soot emissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-will-lead-new-effort-to-cut-global-warming-from-methane-soot/2012/02/15/gIQAoYtUGR_story.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-will-lead-new-effort-to-cut-global-warming-from-methane-soot/2012/02/15/gIQAoYtUGR_story.html</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>Without regional planning, local measures to adapt to climate change (such as sea walls) may actually cause more trouble than they prevent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The San Francisco Bay Area is an example. </font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/science/earth/bay-area-climate-change-plans-lack-regional-cooperation.html?tntemail0=y&_r=1&emc=tnt&pagewanted=all"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/science/earth/bay-area-climate-change-plans-lack-regional-cooperation.html?tntemail0=y&_r=1&emc=tnt&pagewanted=all</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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