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Tool developed by LBNL to calculate potential savings from increasing wall and roof solar reflectance.

Article from Green Building Advisor on strategies to take when building homes to reduce the need for air conditioning, including insulation, windows, site selection, and roofing.

Factsheet profiling a simple modification that can be made to window air-conditioners to improve their energy efficiency.

Article from The Earthbound Report on passive cooling design strategies for homes located in hot climates.

Blog article describing considerations for how to use trees for shading to reduce cooling energy demand.

DOE report characterizing the installed base of windows and window coverings, and how users operate window coverings in order to enable precise quantification of energy savings.

DOE-sponsored report describing the experimental design and results of testing the energy performance of Hunter Douglas double-cell cellular shades under various control schemes in the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Lab Homes.