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Though not currently in the spotlight of the political arena of climate change, buildings hold an undeniable position as one of the largest opportunities to change our society towards a course of sustainability. The government (or at least the parts of it that want to address sustainability on a national level) has fixated themselves on power production, trying to pass regulation to put a price on carbon emissions that would most directly affect electric utility companies. This is certainly a way to go, but focusing on the opposite end of the power supply, the end users, is also a perfectly viable way to reduce our energy load and carbon emissions.
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