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For example, green building standards and programs for residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental structures; energy audits and energy efficiency efforts for buildings.
For example, efficient water use and reuse efforts; waste recycling and energy generation; improving the efficiency of community features, such as street lights; efficient land use strategies.
For example, financial incentives, regulatory streamlining, and related efforts to promote rooftop solar systems; utility-scale shifts to renewable energy sources.
For example, efforts to shift to alternative fuel vehicles and build alternative fuel infrastructure; expand and promote public transportation and other lower-emission options.
For example, private sector efforts to move to new green product lines in established industries, shift to new materials and more efficient machinery (e.g., computers), and redesign production and other business processes.
For example, pioneering efforts to build a "smart grid," a combination of transmission lines and information network that allows for seamless integration of distributed, renewable sources of electricity, as well as better information about usage and pricing (via "smart metering") that can inform efforts to improve energy efficiency.