When you leave the house in the morning, you probably make sure the lights are off and the faucet's not running. You don't want to waste energy, right? Unfortunately, many of your home electronics are using energy all day, every day, even when you're not using them, just because they're plugged in.

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A new report finds that Twin Cities building owners could save up to $10 million a year by implementing day shift cleaning. The report, "Clean Sweep: How a New Approach to Cleaning Buildings in the Twin Cities Can Protect Our Health and the Environment While Securing Jobs and Saving Money," was released today by the Blue Green Alliance and SEIU Local 26. It finds that a day shift cleaning transition could save 4-8 percent in office building energy costs, and adopting green cleaning practices--which encourages the use of less toxic cleaning products--would protect the health of janitorial and office workers in commercial office buildings.

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Thinking about the clean energy economy usually evokes images of constructing wind turbines, weatherizing homes, and installing solar panels on rooftops. However, Service Employees International Union Local 26, based in St. Paul, seeks to include janitors among those workers whose jobs contribute to the green economy while sustaining families.

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This morning, the Senate passed Chairman Bingaman's broad energy bill out of committee by a 15-8 vote. The passage of this bill is quite bittersweet--it's exciting to see a bill that addresses so many vital energy issues, but unfortunately this bill has been significantly weakened and in its current form is not nearly as strong as it needs to be if we are going to transition to a new energy economy.

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Many members of Congress represent districts where farming is a critical part of the economy.  That's why our elected leaders need to talk about how passing climate and energy legislation will benefit producers in their regions.

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The American Clean Energy and Security Act (also known as the Waxman-Markey bill) contains key policies designed to increase savings by cutting energy waste and helping people and businesses become more energy efficient. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) has analyzed the dollar savings and job creation potential of energy efficiency provisions in the bill, and reports on the huge impact of energy efficiency--the nation's cheapest and most abundant energy source--on reducing global warming pollution.

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