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yet another report highlighting the easy gains through household behavior

A team of researchers from schools across the country recently published a great paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce U.S. carbon emissions From the article … Continue reading

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October update

This month’s update is all about bug fixes and minor UI tweaks: New GRU data!  We’ve now got consumption data up to August/September 2009! Carbon footprint has been calculated for our new GRU data Lots of bug fixes for corner … Continue reading

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VP Biden talking our language

Vice President Biden spoke the yesterday about the new Recovery Through Retrofit report, and this is right up our alley: The Retrofit Ramp-Up initiative is designed to slice through the barriers identified in this report—inconvenience, lack of information, and lack … Continue reading

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Just In Time For Summer, Big June Updates

We have just released a major update to the Gainesville Green interface!  Now you can sign up for an account which will allow you to: Claim Your Home Create and Compare Groups of Homes Import Data Directly From GRU  To … Continue reading

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December Update

We just rolled out another version of GainesvilleGreen.com, with a few notable additions: fixed a bug with the searching from the home page many small changes to improve the design many small fixes to support Internet Explorer added some more … Continue reading

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Update and new feature: city-wide graphs

Our August plans are progressing nicely.  In the last week we’ve: got the site moved onto a faster server, using Acceleration.net‘s virtual dedicated server hosting planned out collaboration with Program for Resource Efficient Communities and added their logo to website … Continue reading

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July update and August plans

July has been a busy month! There has been a lot of behind-the-scenes work, and we just published a minor UI change: if a search only returns one home, it will automatically pull up the details page for that home.  … Continue reading

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Gainesville-Green.com Segment Aired on WCJB TV20

We received a phone call Friday (6/27) morning… 45 minutes (and about 65 tons of adrenaline) later, we welcomed a WCJB TV20 field reporter into the Acceleration Programmers Office. Ms. Erica Rodriquez interviewed and filmed Ryan Davis, Director of Programming, … Continue reading

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Gainesville-Green.com Appears at Governor's Conference

Gainesville Mayor, Pegeen Hanrahan, announced Gainesville-Green.com during a session at the 2008 Serve to Preserve Florida Summit on Global Climate Change. The video of that session may be downloaded from the conference website. The Palm Beach Post also ran a … Continue reading

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Gainesville-Green.com Appears at EPA Conference

Gainesville-Green.com was included in the presentation given by Hal Knowles at the 17th Annual International Emission Inventory Conference “Inventory Evolution – Portal to Improved Air Quality.” The full presentation, Realizing Residential Building Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions: The Case for a … Continue reading

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