{"id":98,"date":"2011-02-03T23:38:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T23:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houstongreenbuilding.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2011-02-03T23:38:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T23:38:02","slug":"better-buildings-initiative-obama-commits-to-20-energy-use-reduction-in-commercial-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/houstongreenbuilding.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Better Buildings Initiative: Obama commits to 20% energy use reduction in commercial buildings."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has just announced a collection of initiatives and actions that are designed to encourage a 20% reduction in energy use by commercial buildings by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative calls for aggressive reform of existing tax (transforming the current deduction into a credit) and other incentives for retrofits. President Obama is calling on corporate and institutional leaders to committing to making progress toward this goal. The hope is a ten-fold increase in commercial retrofit take up. Also, the Administration is launching a Building Construction Technology Extension Partnership to provide workforce training in areas such as energy auditing and building operations.<\/p>\n<p>More Details:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2011\/02\/03\/president-obama-s-plan-win-future-making-american-businesses-more-energy<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>Share<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;width:150px;\"><ul style=\"background-image:none;\"><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><div class=\"linkedin_button\"><script type=\"in\/share\" data-url=\"https:\/\/houstongreenbuilding.com\/?p=98\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has just announced a collection of initiatives and actions that are designed to encourage a 20% reduction in energy use by commercial buildings by 2020. The initiative calls for aggressive reform of existing tax (transforming the current deduction into a credit) and other incentives for retrofits. President Obama is calling on corporate and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>Share<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;width:150px;\"><ul style=\"background-image:none;\"><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><div class=\"linkedin_button\"><script type=\"in\/share\" data-url=\"https:\/\/houstongreenbuilding.com\/?p=98\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ogFS-1A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/houstongreenbuilding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/houstongreenbuilding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/houstongreenbuilding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houstongreenbuilding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houstongreenbuilding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/houstongreenbuilding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/houstongreenbuilding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/houstongreenbuilding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houstongreenbuilding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houstongreenbuilding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}