Ready for anything

Article Abstract:

A new planning standard from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) provides an answer for lack of contingency plans. This establishes a common set of criteria for disaster management, emergency management and business continuity programs and also, provides individuals responsible for these programs the means to assess their current structure or to develop, implement and maintain a program to prepare for an recover from disasters and emergencies.

Fire Protection, Natl Fire Protection Assn, Methods, Emergency management, Emergency preparedness, Disaster planning, National Fire Protection Association

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DOE researchers build houses along the road leading toward zero net energy consumption

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Test houses are under construction and some are in planning stages, with the intention of achieving an efficiency of 60 to 70 percent better that what would satisfy the International Energy Conservation Code. Corporate and Building America partners are making significant contributions, towards this, either in planning or in contributing resources and the idea is to integrate compatible systems into a unified whole is taking a systems approach.

Regulation and Administration of Communications, Electric, Gas, and Other Utilities, Energy Conservation, Powers and duties, United States. Department of Energy, Energy consumption

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Waste-to-energy: Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases with clean, reliable, renewable power

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Several U.S. cities are building and operating waste-to-energy plants that produce clean, renewable energy through the combustion of municipal solid waste in specially designed power plants. A discussion on the success of waste-to-energy in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is presented.

Environmental aspects, Control, Greenhouse gases, Emissions (Pollution), Waste-to-energy power plants

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