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Former First Lady Hillary Clinton gave an impassioned keynote address at last week’s Greenbuild 2013, billed as the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to green construction. While it can be difficult to make energy efficiency sexy – maybe it should be called Dark Energy or something catchy – this speech provides examples of energy cost savings that resulted from efficiency upgrades the Clinton’s made at the White House in the 1990’s.

The energy efficient features that can be integrated into new-build homes today constitute vast improvements from even a few years ago. And the value associated with energy-efficient buildings can be seen in the higher real estate prices and rents paid for things like LEED certification and upgraded spaces.

Check out these excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s speech: