Energy
Owner Jared Fisher has opened his new Las Vegas Cyclery shop in Summerlin. The 9,785-square-foot ultragreen bike shop opened this month as a power plant and a shrine to energy efficiency.
Federal officials have approved a solar plant on an Indian reservation outside Las Vegas, marking the nation’s first commercial-grade solar energy project on tribal land and new territory for the Obama administration’s renewable energy agenda.
The average monthly single-family residential power bill could go from $140 to $155 on Jan. 1. But don’t hold us to that number. Don’t hold the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to it, either. Or NV Energy, or the state Bureau of Consumer Protection, for that matter.
Las Vegas gasoline prices have risen 11 cents in a week and 18 cents in the past month, AAA said Monday.
Green building, the term coined to describe ecofriendly, sustainable construction, is spreading like wildfire. Government agencies and businesses are increasingly realizing green building’s myriad benefits for worker recruitment and retention, productivity and job satisfaction.
Landscaping with energy efficiency in mind is not a new idea. In the early days of Las Vegas, Helen J. Stewart and others used cottonwood and mesquite trees to modify temperatures around their homes. Today, many of us head for the mountains to cool off.
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