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A common energy-saving device I’ve never seen in the U.S.

Catherine Wolfram, faculty co-director, Energy Institute at Haas | October 8, 2014

I tend to think of the U.S. as ahead of most of the rest of the world when it comes to energy efficiency. Maybe not in the Germany or Japan league, but at least above the median. After all, our utilities are spending billions of dollars per year encouraging energy efficiency and our policy makers talk about … Continue reading »

Old days, fast times

Claude Fischer, professor of sociology | May 9, 2014

There’s a lot of discussion about speed these days – from the possible advantage of seconds that some users on the internet would get were broadband “net neutrality” to go away to the market-disrupting micro-mini-milli-second competition among “flash mob” stock traders to debates over the speed-up “bullet trains” might provide. It seems as if we … Continue reading »