Energy Efficient Buildings

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Opinion column in today's Chronicle by Neal Pierce.

There's no question that America is moving far too slowly toward the greener, more energy efficient and environmentally sustainable ways that a century of global turmoil, climate change and likely severe fuel emergencies clearly demands.

Even so, some bits of fresh evidence suggest the country's gluttonous energy and land consumption ways may be starting to turn course, with luck in time to avoid being a 21st century Titanic.

Helped along by multiple scientific warnings and most recently Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, we're beginning to take the threats of global warming far more seriously. On June 5, the U.S. Conference of Mayors unanimously voted to call for sharp reductions in fossil fuel use in all buildings