Category: Green Building LEED News
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Tennessee Votes to Grow Hemp, Hopefully Not Like California
Tennessee will be the second state that issues licenses to grow hemp but regulations are clearly needed given the situation in California.
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A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet Premiers Earth Day on PBS
Mark Kitchell’s 1990 Oscar nominated documentary, Berkeley in the Sixties, covered the campus activism that disrupted the House Un-American Activities Committee’s hearings, launched the Free Speech Movement, fought the police at People’s Park and inspired student spokesman Mario Savio to declare: “There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so…
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A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet Premiers Earth Day on PBS
Mark Kitchell’s 1990 Oscar nominated documentary, Berkeley in the Sixties, covered the campus activism that disrupted the House Un-American Activities Committee’s hearings, launched the Free Speech Movement, fought the police at People’s Park and inspired student spokesman Mario Savio to declare: “There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so…
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EPA Gives BP ‘Get Out of Jail Free Card’ on 4th Anniversary of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster
Today is the fourth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed 11 workers and dumped more than 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over a three month period in 2010. [caption id="attachment_331295" align="alignnone" width="500"] BP’s critics say that the Deepwater Horizon disaster and other accidents were not just a run…
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New York Yankees Ready to Lead the League in Sustainability
Two weeks before the New York Yankees opened their 111th baseball season, as Derek Jeter and his teammates were in Florida finishing up their spring training schedule, the Yankee’s vice president of Stadium Operations, Doug Behar, was out in California, attending a spring training session of his own. Instead of exhibition games and batting practice,…