Showing posts with label Why is that cold air blowing in through the open front door...we'd better turn up the heat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Why is that cold air blowing in through the open front door...we'd better turn up the heat. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Why the Department of Defense spends money like a sieve

It turns out that, until very recently, we weren't insulating any of our buildings in Iraq or Afganistan (but were still air-conditioning them). Uh, it doesn't take an HVAC specialist to realize that's going to waste a lot of money. There's got to be other ways to save money that are no-brainers.

Here's Robin Young's Here and Now on WBUR with an interview of a soldier who did something about it and is now saving us billions (literally).