In its first ever National building Competition, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency challenged teams from across the nation to cut wasteful energy use in buildings in which they live and work.

在首届全国建筑竞赛上，美国环保署要求来自全国各地的参赛小组最大幅度地降低人们工作和生活于其中的建筑的能源浪费。

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The Basel project targeted a particularly sensitive seismic area, and drilled in the middle of a city because of plans to divert steam for heating buildings, another use of geothermal energy.

巴塞尔项目在一个非常敏感的多地震区域施工，而且为了利用地热为建筑供暖，该项目在市中心地区进行钻探。

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They have consciously brought down their energy use through more efficient street lighting and buildings and being energy efficient in the utilities they run.

它们有意识地通过提高街灯和建筑的能源使用效率降低了能源使用量，其运行的公共设施具有很高的能源使用效率。

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And this supports our goal of putting a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015, doubling our share of electricity from clean energy by 2035, and reducing energy use in buildings by 20 percent by 2020.

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Since 1980, absolute energy use in commercial buildings alone has increased two-thirds to nearly 20 percent of U.S. energy consumption, with relative energy use per square foot increasing nearly 12 percent over the same period.

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