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How to get prompt payback from an aging icon that guzzles energy

How to get prompt payback from an aging icon that guzzles energy

Written by CEIL Staff

Tuesday, 24 August 2010 11:12

Source: The New York Times

Most Manhattan office buildings are designed for paper pushers, but there is a new factory running at the end of a long dim corridor on the fifth floor of the Empire State Building. Here machines are whirring, a furnace is roaring, and dozens of blue-collar workers are bustling about. Read more....