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Uttarakhand

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use

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Chicago 1995

371 sunstroke deaths during summer in Andhra Pradesh

-- Deccan Chronicle, | June 20, 2014

Factory employees

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Temperature Alan Hedge, Cornell

“A May 2003 survey by the

International Facilities Management

Association says that being too cold

was the number-one office

complaint ... followed by being too

hot.”

—New York Times, 2005

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“Many offices, hotels and conference

spaces have people packing sweaters

and even space heaters to combat meat-

locker temperatures.”

USA Today, September 2, 2014

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Jeff Rubin, CIBC World Markets

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“A policy of ‘frugality first’ induces

efficiency as a secondary

consequence;

‘efficiency first’ does not induce

frugality--it makes frugality [seem]

less necessary.”

— Herman Daly, 2003