Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Monsanto Goes to Court Again and Again

    Monsanto is in a bit of a pickle right now as it fights off accelerating attacks on its flagship product, Roundup.

  • SimpliPhi Power adds solar veteran as COO

    SimpliPhi Power continues to execute on its rapid expansion plans with the recent addition of Chris Beitel as chief operations officer. Beitel joins the SimpliPhi executive team after a noteworthy stay at SolarCity and prior to that, Applied Materials. Beitel will apply his extensive business commercialization expertise to scaling SimpliPhi’sRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • GRID Alternatives, SunPower bring solar to four low-income Texas homes

    About 80 Austin-based employee volunteers from global solar innovator, SunPower, brought the transformative power of solar energy to four low-income families in Austin’s Blackland Neighborhood. Working with national solar nonprofit GRID Alternatives over two days, the volunteers installed four rooftop solar systems totaling 13 kW of generating capacity. The systemsRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • CPN tries to boost lagging Ohio solar market with OH SUN program

    The Community Power Network (CPN), a national network of local, state, and national advocates for renewable energy announced the opening of its OH SUN program. This new effort builds off of the organization’s work in Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. “It is critical that the solar industry is notRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • No More Futzing Around, It’s Climate Change

    For the first time, scientists say this crazy weather we’re experience really is climate change.