As of 12/31/2011, ETA's accomplishments within the ENERGY STAR program are as follows:

1. ETA has completed ten ENERGY STAR benchmarking or energy management and strategies seminars sponsored by IFMA, San Diego Gas & Electric, the California Center for Sustainable Energy and the Port of San Diego. ETA has assisted many seminar attendees in benchmarking the following during 2011:

1. Total number of square feet : 6.3 million representing 115 buildings
2. The attendees planned to benchmark an additional 3.5 million square feet within six months .   All statistics are available for viewing for verification. 

2.  ETA's clients received three new ENERGY STAR's in 2011.

3.   One client was able to implement an energy management plan and strategies for all of its California buildings in readiness for an initial public offering.

4.  We completed a benchmarking project for a major retailer and completed a Staged Approach assessment.

5.  Finally, through the Sustainable Energy Sales Seminars, three new buildings were benchmarked by graduates of a five-day seminar entitled Sustainable Energy Sales sponsored by the IBEW , NECA and TomKat Foundation.

6. BRAND NEW UNIVERSITY COURSE based on the newly released ENERGY STAR University Course:

Come join Daryl on January 23 at San Diego University where he will be teaching a brand new course entitled Greening the Built Environment Through Energy Management: Creating Effective Strategy and Implementation. Students will receive three full credits within the Open University under the Service Learning.

The US ENERGY STAR Program has an entire program for the Higher Education sector. For detailed information, you can refer to the " ENERGY STAR Higher Education"  program at,

ENERGY STAR for Higher Education 

The course is modeled after the curriculum created bt the ENERGY STAR Higher Education team at US EPA for colleges and universities. 

Give Your Students an Edge: Add ENERGY STAR to Your Course Catalog 

7. DARYL IS SHARING KNOWLEDGE WITH STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY EXTENSION PROGRAM: in November, 2011, Daryl, as a guest instructor, taught a class at UC Berkeley Extension Program  entitled, "Energy Use and Climate Change".

He has built awareness of the financial benefits of starting with ENERGY STAR Energy Management Guide as a cost- effective enterprise-wide initiative for institutions, corporations and government agencies employees who participated in his class. 

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the winners of the 2011 Game Day Challenge, a competition among U.S. colleges and universities with the goal of lowering waste generated at college football games and increasing participation in and awareness of waste reduction programs. As part of the challenge, more than 75 schools across the nation designed a waste reduction plan for one 2011 regular season home football game, measured their results and submitted them to EPA.

“Reducing, reusing, and recycling moves our nation towards an environmentally and economically greener, sustainable tomorrow," says Mathy Stanislaus, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. “These schools and fans have taken the lead through the Game Day Challenge, and now they are ready and equipped with tools and resources to continue to reduce waste across all campus activities and beyond.”

The winners of the 2011 Game Day Challenge are:

Waste Minimization Champion (Least amount of waste generated per attendee) - Central Connecticut State University

Diversion Rate Champion (Highest combined recycling and composting rate) - University of California, Davis

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Champion (Greatest greenhouse gas reductions from diverting waste) - University of Virginia

Recycling Champion (Highest recycling rate) - University of Virginia

Organics Reduction Champion (Highest organics reduction rate) - Marist College

This past fall, 78 participating colleges and universities including 2.7 million fans diverted more than 500,000 pounds of waste from football games, prevented nearly 810 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to the annual emissions from 159 passenger vehicles.

The participating colleges and universities including the fans took one step further to green the gridiron and help build awareness around the importance of recycling, reducing, and reusing. In 2010, Americans kept 85 million tons of waste out of landfills by recycling and composting, boosting the U.S. recycling rate to 34 percent. Out of the 165 million tons of waste that went into landfills, food scraps made up 20 percent. Food is the single largest waste stream that ends up in landfills. To address food waste, EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge under the Sustainable Materials Management program encourages schools to donate surplus and wholesome fresh food from sporting venues and cafeterias, instead of throwing it away.

There are many other opportunities to reduce waste and save energy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting the environment. The competition was sponsored by EPA’s WasteWise program, a voluntary program through which organizations eliminate costly municipal solid waste and select industrial wastes, benefiting their bottom line and the environment.

More information on participant results: http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/partnerships/wastewise/challenge/gameday/results.htm

More information on how the results are determined:
http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/partnerships/wastewise/challenge/gameday/measure.htm

For a list of participating schools: http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/partnerships/wastewise/challenge/gameday/schools.htm

More information on the Food Recovery Challenge: http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/partnerships/wastewise/challenge/foodrecovery/index.htm

By: Brittney Gordon

We are now one week into 2012. Are you working on a New Year’s Resolution yet? Every year I join countless Americans in making a resolution. Usually my goals revolve around two main topics: losing weight and saving money. I have had some success—and an equal amount of failure. Luckily I am not alone. According to studies by psychologist Richard Wiseman, 52 percent of resolution makers were confident that they would achieve their goals, yet only 12 percent actually succeeded. According to Wiseman, the difference is in how they went about accomplishing their goals. Those who set defined goals and told their friends and family about it were the most likely to succeed. In addition, Wiseman found that revisiting previous goals was often a recipe for disappointment. Lastly, he concluded that those who make only one resolution fared much better than those with a long list of lofty ideas.

Did you know that ENERGY STAR can help improve your chances of achieving your New Year’s Resolution? The ENERGY STAR website not only gives lots of money-saving resolution ideas, but allows you to make a public pledge to that goal. From pledging to turn off the lights when you leave the room to always looking for the ENERGY STAR when you shop, ENERGY STAR’s easy, everyday resolutions can help you save money on your utility bills and help protect the environment.

And the best part: You can use those savings earned through your new energy-efficient ways to join a gym!

About the author: Brittney Gordon is a member of EPA’s ENERGY STAR program communications team. The Baltimore native has worked for EPA since 2010.

Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in Greenversations are those of the author. They do not reflect EPA policy, endorsement, or action, and EPA does not verify the accuracy or science of the contents of the blog.

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Come join Daryl on January 23 at San Diego Sate University where he will be teaching a brand new course entitled Greening the Built Environment Through Energy Management: Creating Effective Strategy and Implementation. Students will receive three full credits within the Open University under the Service Learning.

Please contact SDSU to register. The course number is GENS 400.

Daryl is also reaching out to executives at UC Berkeley Extension Program where he taught a class entitled Energy Use and Climate Change.

The San Diego VA Medical Center receives the ENERGY STAR in 2011( the second year in a row) with the assistance of Lee Stevens. With the changes in benchmarking hospitals occurring in November 2011, the Medical Center worked very closely with ETA to ensure the integrity of all records pre-modification of the Portfolio Manager tool. The entire Engineering , Energy and Electrical  teams at the San Diego VA Medical Center contributed to this major accomplishment. 

Hospitals_in_California_that_received_the_ENERGY_STAR_in_2011.docx 

The Medical Center's investment in a highly effective Combined Heat & Power System that not only delivers higher efficiency for the Central Plant but can be controlled to reduce demand the grid during peak hours of the day. The facility is completing an assessment of Advanced Lighting Control Technologies under a project managed by ETA. The results of the study will be published on the Emerging Technologies Coordinating Council website in 2012. ( please refer to www.etcc-ca.com) for publication of this report. The assessment is innovative and will include a staged approach to the assessment of individual control devices within any advanced lighting control system. 

Heretofore, most advanced lighting control system projects measured all control devices at the same time; it was difficult to assess the effectiveness of  a system device by device vs the whole system. Segregating the performance of devices within a lighting control system allows you to quantify the energy savings and also select which devices are needed during the design phase of the system. Lessons were learned by all stakeholders during this two year assessment project. 

The VA San Diego Medical Center gave tremendous feedback throughout the process:occupants, electrical , engineering , interior design and IT were among a few of the teams that gave input to the Energy Management project manager and task force for the VA facility. 

Daryl DeJean was one of three guests speakers invited by Labor Management Cooperation Council, NECA- IBEW, to present the folowing crucial topics for all stakeholders interested in the Zero Net Energy Roadmap of the State of California and the strategies that are critical in developing cost- effective energy management strategies to attain energy neutrality.

•Integration of building technologies for efficiency gains.

Daryl has started teaching at UC Berkeley Extension Program at UC Berkeley main campus as of the week of November 7, 2011. If you are  near Berkeley, please check out the Extension Certificate and Professional Programs. You can view the description of the UC Berkeley full offering at the following link:

UC Berkeley Extension Certificate and Professional Programs Webpage

Daryl DeJean's course is named " Energy Use and Climate Change"  

For more information, please refer to the following link:  Energy Use and Climate Change Course at UC Berkeley Extension 

The East Lyme LED outdoor lighting project is featured on August 30, 2011  in a Business Wire article that Yahoo Finance, Teletrader, allbusiness.com and LED Magazine have  published.

For more details on how ETA worked with its client, the Town of East Lyme, CT, please refer to:

East Lyme, CT Looks at Downtown in New Light from Hubbell Lighting Conservation, better light, aesthetics, drive decision 

Teletrader.com East Lyme Story 

See the BUZZ created by The Town of East Lyme in LED Magazine: 

LED Magazine Article on East Lyme Lighting Project Sept 2, 2011 

ETA has been invited to join the E06.81 Subcommittee on Buildings Economics. As voting members, Daryl and Lee are continuing to work as volunteers on global standards relating to buildings. 

From October 30 through November 2, 2011, the sE06.81Sub-committee met in Tampa, FL. ETA and Kingport attended three days of  meetings and voted on a several parts of the massive project of revising ASTM Standards on Building Economics 6th Edition. ASTM Standards on Building Economics 6th Edition Book 2007 . You can purchase this terrific Handbook at the above link. 

Lee Stevens has volunteered to spearhead a public relations and marketing outreach for the Sub-committee as much as her time will allow.  Some of the basic principles of Building Economics are being conveyed in the training initiatives of ETA and Kingport Corporation. Cost effectiveness of energy-related projects whether renewable energy or energy efficiency projects is a vital criteria for all end-users. Traditional simple payback and Internal Rate of Return and only some quick screening tools for the stakeholders involved.

The large corporate and government markets have adopted building economics for over 50 years in new construction and large retrofit projects. In the area of energy efficiency, the crucial importance of generating operating cash flow and ensuring the liquidity of a firm or organization has been largely ignored by the various stakeholders.

With the input from several building engineers and economists working on the Sub Committee, ETA and Kingport are hoping to convey to its clients the importance of analyzing the impact of energy efficiency projects on the operating cash flow and overall financial performance of a firm or organization.  This methodology helps the building owner and operator justify the up front investments with their board, top management as well as the lenders who look to enhanced cash flow stream  as the primary soucre of repayment of their loans.  

As of February, 2011, Daryl DeJean has created an exciting Green Campus Strategy and Implementation Roadmap for a new Green Team of Students including:   

• environmental engineering students
• business students
• Physical Plant engineering team

The Green Team is led by Kenzie McDonald, a passionate and highly effective student leader who has taken on the role of project coordinator for the entire student body!

Kenzie, congratulations on your phenomenal accomplishment, getting everyone to volunteer time to plan this project within the budgetary constraint of the University!

As the country’s #1 conference and exposition for non-residential building owners, facility managers, maintenance engineers, directors of sustainability, planning, operations and management, NFMT gives the attendees access to the people, future-forward products and information within the perspective of Facilities Management as opposed to building technologies. The purpose of the conference is to enhance the value of the facility, streamline operations, establish best practices, purchase innovative facility products and systems. 

On June 8, 2011 Daryl gave a seminar to 46 attendees on new green lighting technologies.

Lighting systems are among the most frequently targeted in sustainability initiatives in the built environment. Thanks to emerging technologies and methods such as LEDs, daylighting and induction, there are a plethora of opportunities to reduce electricity energy use, improve lighting quality and decrease a building’s carbon footprint. So how can facility managers best select from the breadth and variety of choices that seem to crop up continually? This webcast will inform attendees about the applications and benefits of new (and up-and-coming) devices that provide energy savings in a variety of facilities.

Virtual Greening Buildings 

http://www.nfmt.com/virtual/

The presentations will be made available if you register online at the above link. 

Mayor Newsom Joins Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Steyer to Announce New Funding For Green Collar Job Training Program

Lee Stevens represented ETA and Kingport at the ASTM International E60 Committee in Anaheim, CA on April 12-14, 2011. The work of the Committee  spans every part and use of a building , no matter how large or small and purpose.

We are reviewed and voted on new standards for global meeting venues with standards to drive more adoption of Sustainable Meeting Best Practices globally. Lee Stevens submitted her comments and votes to the Committee in light of her previous work with the hospitality industry.

 Thinking Beyond Building Components by Christopher Mathis Part 2 of 2

" ASTM International technical committees have long developed standards for building components, but the future lies in viewing structures as interactive systems."

The following rendering of a Building illustrates the massive work of the E60 ASTM Committee. Courtesy of ASTM International E60 Committee.

From : http://www.astm.org/SNEWS/JA_2010/mathis_ja10.html

 ETA will be in Milan at the EUROLUCE Trade Show in Milan, Italy. Please see the Euroluce link below.

Euroluce 2011, Milan, Italy

As of March, 2010, one of ETA's key 2010 projects was completed successfully! ETA assisted the Town of East Lyme  with one of the first streetlight design and retrofit projects funded under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act successfully. The historical preservation of the town ambience was key in this project. The historical streetlight combined with the longevity and tremendous energy savings of the US-made LED streetlights was a real appeal to a discriminating engineering and purchasing committee. A key requirement of the town was the "Made In America" label. The town selected Architectural Area Lighting (AAL) as their fixtures are made in California. 

Bill Scheer, Town Engineer, said about the project:

"There has been no complaints and everything has been positive. The town was audited for compliance with the terms and consitions of the ARRA funding: no issue or errors were found by the auditors. This was the first audit conducted and due to ETA's guidance on meeting the letter of the law, the town went flawlessly"

The US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)  recognizes Emerging Technologies Associates, Inc. (ETA) as the latest Featured SPP of the Quarter. Read about how ETA leveraged ENERGY STAR tools to assist a customer, Sharp Grossmont Hospital, in achieving a 9 percent reduction in energy intensity in two years.

Please click on the following link for the article published on the ENERGY STAR website in January 2011.

ETA Named SPP of the Quarter In January 2011 for the Energy Management Consulting Successful Project with Sharp Grossmont

The US EPA is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a terrific webpage full of tips for all of us at the office and at home!

Take a look at these free resources and tips to save money!

EPA40 Healthier Families. Cleaner Communities. Stronger America

Check out the Pick 5 ideas link Exciting Pick 5 Campaign !

Chuck Colgan of The California Center for Sustainability attended one of Daryl DeJean ENERGY STAR Best Practices seminars and wrote an article about the presentation. Check it out and see the value of establishing or rviewing your best practices in any energy management initiatives.

Cleantechies blog Nov 23, 2010 Looking For Affordable Steps to Energy Efficiency? 

This article is written by  Chuck Colgan, Public Relations Director of the California Center for Sustainability, San Diego, CA. Chuck articulates to a tee Daryl DeJean cost effective recommendations to anyone managing buildings whether it's a restaurant, an office or a hospital. 

Before spending money on any major building systems, read this one minute tip from a Center whose mission is to consult, promote, teach and conduct community outreach with the consumer as well as business. Chuck could not echo Daryl's message any better! 

John DeJean, father of ETA President Daryl DeJean, swept the gold medals at the Baton Rouge Louisiana Senior Olympic tennis tournament. John and his partner, Dyer LaFleur, won the men's doubles bracket. John went on to capture the singles title. As the gold medal winners they qualified to move on to the Louisiana State Senior Olympics. Watch out world, the cajun duo is on the move in the Senior Olympic scene.