Category: Green Building LEED News
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How Buying Local Produce Impacts Local Economies
The motto “Think Globally, Act Locally” has long been a guiding tenet of the sustainable food movement. But does acting locally really make a difference and if so, what kind of difference? That’s just what a team of economists set out to explore in the study Linkages Between Community-Focused Agriculture, Farm Sales and Regional Growth,…
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Report Shows Sharp Rise in Murders of Environmentalists, Only 1% of Killers Convicted
Killings of people protecting the environment and rights to land increased sharply between 2002 and 2013 as competition for natural resources intensifies, a new report from Global Witness reveals. In the most comprehensive global analysis of the problem on record, the campaign group has found that at least 908 people are known to have died in this time.…
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An Island Divided: What We Must Learn From the Tragedy of Hispaniola
My last image of Haiti: a faded guard tower standing amidst a dry and desolate landscape, blocking the way to green mountains beyond. [caption id="attachment_330592" align="alignnone" width="500"] Haitian border tower.[/caption] Traveling over roads that were nothing more than rutted ditches and dried creek beds, we were heading for the Haitian border. Our plans to fly…
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Largest Solar Array for Department of Defense Coming to Arizona Army Base
A U.S. Army base near the Mexican border will soon be home to the U.S. Department of Defense’s largest solar array on a military installation. The U.S. Army announced Monday that Fort Huachuca, in Southeast Arizona’s Cochise County, on April 25 will break ground on a solar array with panels that collectively will provide one quarter…
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Climate Change Causes Chain Reaction in Ecosystems
A collaborative study released yesterday involving scientists from the Cambridge Conservation Initiative has shown that climate change is altering species distributions and populations, seemingly through shifting interactions between species rather than direct responses to climate. [caption id="attachment_330572" align="alignnone" width="500"] The study shows that many of the climate-related impacts on a given species occur as a…