Solar and building efficiency programs would be cut in half.
We need improvement in building efficiency and particularly air-conditioning.
Her company's building efficiency business, she said, expects to hire 60,000 workers worldwide over the next decade.
The American plan also meets Stern's other prescriptions for an effective green stimulus - a concentration on building efficiency and renewable energy.
These include farming enhancements, such as low-till farming methods; building efficiency gains via better insulation and other technologies; and industrial upgrades.
And those funds cover a host of programs besides wind and solar, such as building efficiency, biomass, ethanol, fuel cells and basic research.
If the Navy really uses its buying power when buying power, and setting building efficiency standards, it alone could expand the green energy market in a decisive way.
In France, state bank Caisse de Depots et Consignations will set aside €5bn (about $6.69bn) for energy programs with half dedicated to building efficiency and zero interest loans for homeowners.
Told of the cities' plans, Van Jones, the new White House special adviser on green jobs, said the country was finally moving to harvest the "low-hanging fruit" of building efficiency.
When we asked 300 business leaders about smart city technologies, they said that intelligent transport systems would have the biggest impact on the wellbeing of citizens and economic growth, (over building efficiency, smart grids and energy storage).
This can mean technical efficiency, but also includes building efficiency through encouraging an improved worker-management dialogue, ensuring that any resultant gains are shared in an equitable way with those workers in the supply chain.
