Category: Green Building LEED News
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SolarCoins: A Currency for the Age of Solar
People that produce solar energy will earn one Solarcoin for every megawatt-hour of electricity they produce, creating even more incentives for people to produce more clean energy.
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Restoring Wetlands Has Surprising Economic Benefits
While the environmental benefits are well known and accepted, most aren’t as aware that the economic benefits are just as compelling.
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Meteor Showers Shine Down on Earth Day While Renewable Energy, Organic Agriculture Rise
Today the Lyrid meteor showers peak as the world edges to renewable energy and hopefully, organic agriculture.
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Earth Day in the Shawnee: Taking a Stand Against Corporate Greed
Few people understand the historical impact of coal mining like acclaimed poet Barney Bush in Shawnee hills of southern Illinois. The French, in fact, stumbled on coal outcroppings near the Shawnee in Illinois in the 17th century, launching the first coal industry on the American continent. By the early 19th Century, Thomas Jefferson helped to engineer the…
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Celebrating the Power of One in Fight Against Climate Change
Suleiman Khan is a freshman student at Montgomery College Rockville. He is an international student from Saudi Arabia who is studying medicine. He aspires to be a doctor, more specifically a general surgeon who can help people in third world countries. He is planning to attend University of Maryland within the next year to continue his bachelors degree.…