Category: Green Building LEED News
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Jimmy Carter Slams Koch Brothers and ‘Unpleasantly Successful’ Climate Denial Campaign
A former U.S. president provided some strong words regarding climate change this week while speaking at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). Jimmy Carter referenced not only the fight against time we’re all in when it comes to climate-related impacts, but also the fight against those who are funding climate denial. The 39th president…
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Unsustainable Seafood: A New Crackdown on Illegal Fishing
When people talk about illegal trafficking in wildlife, the glistening merchandise laid out on crushed ice in the supermarket seafood counter—from salmon to king crab—probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But 90 percent of U.S. seafood is imported, and according to a new study in the journal Marine Policy, as much as one-third of that is caught…
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Texas Family Awarded $3 Million in Nation’s First Fracking Trial
It took three years, but a Texas family finally emerged victorious in a case that could long impact fracking companies and the impact they have on the communities in which they operate. A Dallas jury favored the Parr family, which sued Aruba Petroleum back in 2011 after experiencing an array of health issues attorneys argued were…
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State market briefs: Green building data that’s quick, easy and in REAL TIME!
Published on: 23 Apr 2014 Feature image: Nothing speaks more clearly than good data. The Green Building Informati…
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Is This Moth Beating Climate Change?
Finnish and U.S. scientists have an unsolved puzzle: good news when they expected bad news. They have invested 32 years studying the forest moths of Finnish Lapland to measure the effect of climate change—and at face value, there doesn’t seem to have been a change. Yet between 1978 and 2009, average annual temperatures in the region…