I learned today from someone from the Clinton Climate Initiative, which helped to facilitate this project, that the paper of record did an excellent job covering this story except for one not-so-small detail: the retrofits will reduce energy consumption a total of 38% by 2013 … not 38% every year, as they reported (which, not incidentally, makes very little sense).

Oh, grey lady, you are rather grey around the temples, aren’t you?

Anyway, here’s the start of the otherwise excellent article:

Once the world’s tallest building, the Empire State Building is striving for another milestone: It is going green.

Owners of the New York City landmark announced on Monday that they will be beginning a renovation this summer expected to reduce the skyscraper’s energy use by 38 percent a year by 2013, at an annual savings of $4.4 million. The retrofit project will add $20 million to the $500 million building makeover already under way that aims to attract larger corporate occupants at higher rents.