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Report, The Circular Economy and Benefits for Society

Reports on Materials Consumption and Solid Waste Generally
Foreign
Broadly explores the potential for a significant increase in resource efficiency and assesses what the main benefits for society would be - looking at carbon emissions and employment in particular.

Report, Achieving a Circular Economy

Reports on Materials Consumption and Solid Waste Generally
Private Entities
Surveys companies making investments in circular economic models, including TetraPak, HP, Phillips, and SunPower.

WegoWise database

Building Energy Audits, Requiring Energy Audits and Benchmarking, Energy Use Benchmarking and Auditing
Local Governments
WegoWise maintains a database of US city benchmarking ordinances.

EPA’s Energy Star Portfolio Manager tool

Building Energy Audits
Individual Agencies
Designed to measure and track energy and water consumption, as well as greenhouse gas emissions, for either one or a whole portfolio of buildings.

Clif Bar Energy Subsidies

Employer EE and Commuting Subsidies
Private Entities
Clif Bar’s Cool Commute program (2006) provided employees with a $6,500 taxable cash incentive. The Cool Home program (2008) provided $1,000 annually to make changes to employees’ homes to reduce energy.

Duke’s employee EE pilot incentive

Employer EE and Commuting Subsidies
Private Entities
Duke University conducted an energy efficiency pilot program aimed to help Duke employees complete energy efficiency home retrofits and track reductions in energy use and carbon emissions.