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Captivate Cities’ Energy Star Ratings

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 by Kyle Scribner

We always knew the buildings where Captivate plays were cutting edge – after all, they’re equipped with the world’s most innovative news-and-entertainment delivery system (can I get an ‘amen’?).

And now there’s another reason to salute their cutting edginess: they’re green!

So says no less an authority than the EPA, whose list of cities with the most Energy Star qualified buildings for 2008 (pdf) is dominated by Captivate markets.

Captivate Network broadcasts in 17 of Energy Star’s top 25 cities, including all of the top 13. At No. 1 is Los Angeles, whose 262 Energy Star qualified buildings put it well ahead of the pack and enabled the city to save $87.2 million in energy costs last year.

For a good illustration of how effective the Energy Star program can be, check out USA Today’s story explaining how JC Penney has saved up to 30% in some buildings.

Rounding out the top 10 are San Francisco, Houston, Washington, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Atlanta and Seattle. (Boston, Captivate’s home city, finished at No. 11).

Check out Energy Star’s list to find out if your Captivate-enabled building made it.

If you work in an Energy Star standout, let us know by commenting below.







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Kyle Scribner is a born-again nature freak who also happens to be an editor at Captivate Network.

You know that exhilarated feeling you got as a kid when you would go down to the pond to catch frogs? It never really goes away; it’s just dormant. So I'm here to slap a mix of facts and borderline balanced opinion on you, to poke a stick at the nature freak slumbering in us all and maybe get him to once again come out and play.

And we might even learn a few things about the environment as we go.

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How do you commune with nature or become part of the solution to the environmental crisis when you're trapped in a cement-and-glass, gas-guzzling, power-sucking, emissions-spewing metropolis 8 hours (or more) a day? How do you go 'green' in a world of gray?

Actually, there are plenty of ways, and Green Among Gray aims to show high-rise inhabitants how they can help ease the load on the environment and on their minds by exploring natural oases, conservation tips, and other ways to stay green while working in the concrete-built world of the big city.

Look for short updates on the latest environmental news along with periodic longer features on specific places and events that allow big-city workers to get close to nature.
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