18 December 2008 | Posted inBlog News & Updates, Sustainable Design
Reason for hope
Totally a privilege to participate in a symposium last week for KAUST and hear from Dr. Steven Chu, the Director of Lawrence Berkley National Lab who was just nominated to serve as the Energy Secretary in the Obama administration.
Here is one amazing statistic Dr. Chu shared: If all of the roofs and paved areas in the tropic and subtropic regions of the world were retrofitted to be light colored, the amount of CO2 emissions saved would be about 44 billion tons, the equivalent to taking all of the cars currently in the world off the road
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